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NANO2002 Workshop I: Alternative Computing

September 30 - October 3, 2002

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Monday, September 30, 2002

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 10:00

John Reif (Duke University)

" Programmable Molecular Self-Assembly: Theory and Experimental Demonstrations "

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Supriyo Bandyopadhyay (Virginia Commonwealth University)

"Qubit readers and writers: spin polarizers and analyzers for writing and reading single electron spins in quantum dot systems"

11:30 - 12:30

Supriyo Datta (Purdue University)

"Molecular Devices and Circuits"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Hideo Mabuchi (California Institute of Technology)

"Experimental and theoretical foundations for quantum and biochemical"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Richard Lipton (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"DNA Computing: What are the key problems?"

4:30 - 5:30

Erik Winfree (California Institute of Technology)

"Designing in-vitro biomolecular algorithms with DNA: self-assembly and transcriptional networks"

5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 01, 2002

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Tal Mor (Technion, Isreal)

"Algorithmic Cooling and Scalable NMR Quantum Computers"

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

James Heath (UCLA)

"A Systems Approach to Molecular Electronics"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Vwani Roychowdhury (UCLA)

"The Scope and Promise of Alternative Computing Paradigms"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Jeff Hasty (Boston University)

"Engineered gene circuits for biocomputing applications"


Wednesday, October 02, 2002

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Jianbo Gao (University of Florida)

" Synchronized Oscillations and Chaos in Coupled Genetic Repressilators"

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Phil Kuekes (Hewlett Packard Laboratories)

"Defect-Tolerant Molecular Electronics: Combining top-down and bottom-up assembly"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Chris Husband (Rice University)

"Training the Nanocell Through Neuro-Dynamic Programming"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Thomas Schneider (National Cancer Institute)

"Molecular Information Theory: Molecular Efficiency and Flip-Flops"

4:30 - 5:30

Roger Brockett (Harvard University)

"Topological Representations of Bits and Topological"

5:30 - 7:00 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, October 03, 2002

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Tad Hogg (Hewlett Packard Laboratories)

"Exploiting Problem Structure with Quantum Computers"

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Eli Yablonovitch (UCLA)

"Physical Realizations of Information Processing Systems"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Michael Samoilov (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

"Design Characteristics of Biomolecular Systems"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Nancy Woolf (UCLA)

"Quantum Computing and Neural Networks"

4:30 Conclusion

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