NANO2002 Workshop I: Alternative Computing

Part of the Long Program Mathematics in Nanoscale Science and Engineering
September 30 - October 3, 2002

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, September 30, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
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
5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Wednesday, October 2, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30
Roger Brockett (Harvard University)

Topological Representations of Bits and Topological

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

Thursday, October 3, 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