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Agenda



WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
8:20 AM Start of Day 3 Conference Events
8:30 AM Keynote Address: Dr. Angela Belcher, Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - From Nature and Back Again...Giving New Life to Materials for Energy, Electronics and the Environment
9:15 AM Keynote Address: Dr. Evelyn Hu, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Scientific Director of the California Nanosystems Institute - Nanophotonics – The Power of Light on a Chip
10:00 AM Break / Army Science and Technology Showcase opens for the day
10:30 AM Topical Panel: Nanotechnology and Biotechnology and Their Potential Applications
Dr. Andrew Dzurak, Co-Director Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility and Program Manager for Integrated Quantum Computer Devices, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, The University of New South Wales, Australia (view video online) (view presentation)
Dr. John Joannopoulos, Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies – Nanotechnologies to Benefit the Soldier (view video online) (view presentation)
Dr. Betsy Rice, Research Chemist, Weapons and Materials Research Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory – Nanoscience for Insensitive Munitions Development (view video online) (view presentation)
Dr. Kimberly Turner, Associate Professor and Co-Vice-Chair of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara – Biologically Inspired Reversible Adhesive (view video online)
12:30 PM Lunch: Guest Speaker – Mr. Roger Krone, President, Network and Space Systems; Boeing Integrated Defense Systems; Boeing Corporation - Driving S&T to the Tactical Edge: Seizing Informational Advantage (view video online)
1:45 PM Posters and Science & Technology Showcase
2:45 PM Parallel Technical Sessions
C: Advanced High Performance Computing in Physical Sciences and Engineering
D: Lethality Technologies
F: Force Protection/Survivability
L: Biotechnology
M: Nanotechnology
N: Microelectronics and Photonics Technologies
5:00 PM -
6:30 PM
Posters and Science & Technology Showcase

 

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