The Seventh Foresight Conference
on Molecular Nanotechnology
October 15 -17, 1999 at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara, CA
An introductory Tutorial on Foundations of Nanotechnology was held on October 14.
This page now serves as an archive for the 1999 conference.
The 1999 Conference Archive
Conference Co-chairs: Deepak
Srivastava (MRJ Technology Solutions, Inc. at NASA Ames Research Center) and Jan H. Hoh (Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
General
The Seventh Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology will be held at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara, CA. The Conference will begin with a reception the evening of Thursday, October 14, and end Sunday, October 17, 1999. An intensive Tutorial on Foundations of Nanotechnology will be held on October 14.
This 1999 Conference home page will provide the information you will need about the conference and to register for the conference. After the conference is over, this page will provide the permanent archive for the conference.
The url of this page is:
http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT7/index.html
Download the Conference brochure in PDF format. Requires ACROBAT READER by ADOBE.
Topics Covered
Over the next few decades, manufacturing is expected to undergo a profound change. Advances in miniaturization will reach the level of individual atoms and products will be designed and built to atomically-precise specifications. This conference is a meeting of scientists and technologists working in fields leading toward molecular nanotechnology: thorough three-dimensional structural control of materials and devices at the molecular level. The conference will cover topics relevant to the pursuit of molecular control, drawing from fields such as:
- molecular electronics
- biochemical molecular engineering
- scanning probe microscopy
- supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly
- theory/modeling and computations
- computer science
- natural and artificial molecular machines
- nanomaterials/mechanosynthesis
- mechanical engineering and robotics
- applications of nanotechnology
Abstracts
Submission information:
| Abstracts |
Abstract submission deadline has passed. |
| Acceptance notices |
early July 1999 |
| Full papers |
13 October 1999 |
There will be oral presentations and a poster session during the conference. For those who wish to submit papers, the abstracts are due June 4, 1999. The abstracts should be no longer than 500 words, including references and footnotes. Each submitted abstract may include only one graphic. The size should be no larger than 3x3 inches (7.5x7.5 cm). Abstracts not in the appropriate format will be returned without being considered.
All accepted abstracts and papers will be permanently available on the WWW at www.foresight.org or the author's server.
Full Papers
Authors of abstracts accepted for either talks or for poster presentation are encouraged, but not required, to submit full papers based upon their abstracts. Full papers may be submitted to Foresight to be permanently archived on the Conference Web site. They may also be submitted to the journal Nanotechnology to be peer reviewed for inclusion in a special issue devoted to papers presented at the Conference. In the case of papers submitted both to the Conference Web site and to journal, the version of the paper published on the Web site will be considered a draft of the final version to be published by the journal. Papers to be both archived on the Web site and submitted to the journal must be submitted separately to Foresight and to the journal, as detailed below.
Sponsors
Foresight Institute and the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
General Corporate Sponsor
Sun Microsystems
Founded in 1982 by four idealistic young pioneers with a shared vision of decentralized, heterogenous computing systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc. has emerged as a global Fortune 500 leader in enterprise network computing, with over $8 billion in revenues and operations in 150 countries.
Zyvex
Zyvex is the first research and development company focused on developing an assembler for molecular nanotechnology. Started in April 1997, and headquartered in Richardson Texas, the company has hired its initial researchers and is building a lab capable of the task it has set itself. In spite of being a small company, with less than $20M in funding, Zyvex plans to achieve its goal in less than 10 years.
Supporting Corporate Sponsors
JEOL
JEOL Inc. is the Japan-based maker of electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, and other precision electronic equipment.
Cosponsors
Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society of the Americas
Keynote and Invited Speakers
Keynote:
Scanning Probes:
Molecular Motors and Biotech:
Nano/Materials and Mechanics & Manipulation:
Molecular Electronics/Self-Assembly:
Theory/Modeling and Computations:
Program Committee
M. Reza Ghadiri, Scripps Research Institute
1998 Feynman Prize Winner - Experimental |
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Nadrian C. Seeman, New York University
1995 Feynman Prize Winner |
James K. Gimzewski, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
1997 Feynman Prize Winner - Experimental |
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Richard E. Smalley, Rice University
1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| William A. Goddard III, Caltech |
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Deepak Srivastava, NASA Ames, MRJ
1997 Feynman Prize Winner - Theoretical |
| Jan H. Hoh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
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George M. Whitesides, Harvard University |
Ralph C. Merkle, Zyvex
1998 Feynman Prize Winner - Theoretical |
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Tutorial on Foundations of Nanotechnology
The Tutorial Chair for the Seventh Conference is Dr. Donald W. Brenner, Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University. Information on topics, instructors, and registration.
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