1st Symposium on Molecular Machine Systems
October 22, 2004
Crystal City Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC area
Program as of October 14, 2004
Also available in PDF format. Requires ACROBAT READER by ADOBE.
Note: Italic indicates "speaker"; * indicates "corresponding author"
All events held at the Crystal City Marriott Hotel in the Crystal Forum room, unless otherwise specified
Conference Chair
Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute
Thursday, October 21 |
| 8 to 9:30 AM |
Congressional Staff Breakfast on Nanotechnology Policy (invitational, RSVP separately from conference)
Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill |
| Noon to 2 PM |
Foresight Institute Luncheon Briefing, with Foresight President Scott Mize and VP Christine Peterson (invitational, RSVP separately from conference), Monticello Ballroom
Mize presentation as 20.1 MB PDF
Peterson presentation as 9 MB PDF |
| 6 to 8 PM |
Conference Registration, Foyer 2nd floor |
Friday, October 22
1st Symposium on Molecular Machine Systems
Friday Co-Chairs:
Prof. William A. Goddard, III Caltech
Prof. Ralph Merkle, Georgia Tech |
| 7:30 AM |
Conference Registration, Crystal Forum Foyer |
| 8:30 AM |
Continental Breakfast, Crystal Forum Foyer |
| 9:20 AM |
Welcome and Introduction
Ralph Merkle, Georgia Tech, Symposium Co-Chair |
| 9:30 AM |
DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life
Nadrian Seeman, NYU |
| 10:00 AM |
A Synthetic Approach to Water Soluble Nanoscale Molecules with Controlled Structures
Christian Schafmeister*, Stephen Habay, Christopher Levins, Paul Morgan, Gupta Sharad, Gregory Bird; University of Pittsburgh |
| 10:20 AM |
Artificial Molecular Machines
Amar Flood* and J. Fraser Stoddart, UCLA |
| 10:40 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 AM |
Design of Macromolecular Structures and Interactions
David Baker, Univ. of Washington |
| 11:30 AM |
Design and Modeling of Nanoscale Systems: Prediction of Structures and Properties
William A. Goddard III, Caltech, Symposium Co-Chair |
| 12:00 PM |
Luncheon for those who selected this option,
Monticello Ballroom |
| 12:30 PM |
Luncheon Address: Nick Reynolds, Accelrys
Computer Aided Nanodesign: Connecting Molecular Design to the Engineering Process
Monticello Ballroom
Lunch talk is open to all conference attendees |
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| 1:00 PM |
Poster Session, Monticello Ballroom |
| 2:00 PM |
Nanoassembly and Nanorobots
Ari Requicha, USC Laboratory for Molecular Robotics |
| 2:30 PM |
Pathway to Diamond-Based Molecular Manufacturing
Robert Freitas, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing |
| 3:00 PM |
Design and Analysis Techniques for Complex Nanosystems
J. Storrs Hall, Molecular Engineering Research Institute and Nanorex Inc. |
| 3:20 PM |
Indirectly-Replicating Nanomachines: a Kinematic Cellular Automata Approach
Tihamer Toth-Fejel, General Dynamics |
| 3:40 PM |
Coordinating Microscopic Robots for Medical Applications
Tad Hogg, HP Labs |
| 4:00 PM |
Break |
| 4:30 PM |
A Roadmap to Productive Molecular Machine Systems
K. Eric Drexler, Molecular Engineering Research Institute |
| 5:00 PM |
Toward Atomically-Precise Bottom-up Nanomanufacturing
Ralph Merkle, Georgia Tech |
| 5:30 PM |
Special interest groups meet, Sign up or
suggest a new topic at registration desk
SIG schedule (PDF, requires ACROBAT READER by ADOBE.) |
| 7:00 PM |
Foresight Institute Feynman Prize Banquet,
Potomac Ballroom
Attendees must register in advance: see reg. desk
Awards will be presented to the winners of:
Foresight Institute Feynman Prize
Foresight Institute Prize in Communication
Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award |
| 9:00 PM |
Keynote: Ray Kurzweil, Winner, National Medal of Technology, Crystal Forum
An Exponentially Expanding Future from Exponentially Shrinking Technology |
| 10:00 PM |
Informal discussion continues in the lounge |
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