IBM/Berkeley Day


"Is Small the Next BIG Thing?"


May 24, 2002

U.C. Berkeley Soda Hall

Committee Co-Chairs: Thomas Kalil (U.C.B.), Shankar Sastry (U.C.B.), Jean Paul Jacob (I.B.M. Research)

Morning (General) Session: 306 Soda Hall

Chair: Professor Shankar Sastry

–Open to the public –

9:30 - 10:00 Stand-up breakfast outside 306 Soda

10:00 Opening by Dean Richard Newton

10:10 Remarks by Dr. Robert Morris (IBM Research V.P.)

10:20 Remarks by Professor Shankar Sastry

10:30 - 11:00 Professor Paul Alivisatos, "Nanocrystals as Building Blocks for Advanced Materials"
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~pagrp/paulbio.html

11:00 - 11:30 Dr. Don Eigler, IBM Fellow, "Future Computation in Nanometer-scale Structures: Smaller is Different"
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/media/eigler2.html

11:30 - Noon Professor Al Pisano, "MEMS Systems Research"
http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/pisano/

Noon - 12:30 Professor U. Vazirani, "Quantum Computation - The Future?"
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/

Afternoon (Parallel) Sessions

Registration is required for lunch and the afternoon sessions (each session is limited to 30)

Register Here for Session I or Session II

Session I Micro and Nanotechnology Integration (by invitation and registration only)

Co-Chairs: Professor Jeff Bokor (Berkeley), Dr. Phillip Wong (IBM Watson Research)

Rapporteur: Professor Vivek Subramanian

Part I: 1:30-3:00 Carbon Nanotube Integration

1:30 - 1:45 Alex Zettl, "Alice in Nanoland: Novel Properties of Carbon and Non-Carbon Nanotubes"
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2001/03/07_nano.html

1:45 - 2:00 Jeff Bokor, "Nanotube-CMOS Integration"
http://divine.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jbokor/

2:00 - 2:15 Dr. H-S Philip Wong, "Carbon Nanotube Electronics"
http://www.research.ibm.com/nanoscience/

2:15 - 3:00 Discussion

Part II: 3:00-4:30 Micro/Nanofabrication

3:00 - 3:15 Professor Kris Pister, "Smart Dust: Wireless Sensors Disappear from Sight"
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/SmartDust/

3:15 - 3:30 Dr. Hans Coufal, "The End of Moore's Law and Beyond"
http://www.research.ibm.com/ss_computing/ss_quantum_comp.html

3:30 - 3:45 Dr. Simone Anders, "Self-assembled Nanoparticle Arrays"

3:45 - 4:30 Discussion

Register for Session I

Session II: Quantum Computing and Technology (by invitation and registration only)

Co-Chairs: Professor Umesh Vazirani (Berkeley), Dr. W. Risk (IBM Almaden Research)

Rapporteur: Daniel Gottesman

Part I: 1:30-3:00 Quantum Information and Computation

1:30 - 1:45 Dr. Bill Risk, "Quantum Information Research at IBM"
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/st/projects/quantum/intro/

1:45 - 2:00 Professor J. Preskill, Caltech, "Theoretical Quantum Information Science At Caltech"
http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/

2:00 - 2:15 Professor John Kubiatowicz, "Architectural Components For A Practical Quantum Computer"
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/

2:15 - 3:00 Discussion

Part II: 3:00-4:30 Towards Experimental Realization

3:00 - 3:15 Professor Brigitta Whaley, "Theoretical Issues In the Efficient Realization of Quantum Logic"
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~kbwgrp/central.html

3:15 - 3:30 Professor Hideo Mabuchi, Caltech, "Experiments in Quantum Information"
http://minty.caltech.edu/hmabuchi/

3:30 - 3:45 Professor Mike Crommie, "Probing Magnetic Structures At the Atomic Scale Using STMs"

3:45 - 4:30 Discussion

Register for Session II

Closing (General) Session: Wozniak LoungeOpen to the Public

Chair: Dr. Robert Morris (IBM Research Vice President)


4:40 - 5:00 Summary of Session I by rapporteur, Professor Vivek Subramanian

5:00 - 5:20 Summary of Session II by rapporteur, Dr. Daniel Gottesman

5:20 - 5:30 Conclusions by Dr. Robert Morris and Professor Shankar Sastry

5:30-6:30 Reception in the Wozniak Lounge



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