NANO2002 Workshop I: Alternative Computing - IPAM

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

08:30-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:00
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Hideo Mabuchi (California Institute of Technology)
Experimental and theoretical foundations for quantum and biochemical
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Richard Lipton (Georgia Institute of Technology)
DNA Computing: What are the key problems?
16:30-17:30
Erik Winfree (California Institute of Technology)
Designing in-vitro biomolecular algorithms with DNA: self-assembly and transcriptional networks
17:30-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Vwani Roychowdhury (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
The Scope and Promise of Alternative Computing Paradigms
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Jeff Hasty (Boston University)
Engineered gene circuits for biocomputing applications

Wednesday, October 2, 2002

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Chris Husband (Rice University)
Training the Nanocell Through Neuro-Dynamic Programming
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Thomas Schneider (National Cancer Institute)
Molecular Information Theory: Molecular Efficiency and Flip-Flops
16:30-17:30
Roger Brockett (Harvard University)
Topological Representations of Bits and Topological
17:30-19:00
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, October 3, 2002

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Tad Hogg (Hewlett Packard Laboratories)
Exploiting Problem Structure with Quantum Computers
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Eli Yablonovitch (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Physical Realizations of Information Processing Systems

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Michael Samoilov (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Design Characteristics of Biomolecular Systems
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Nancy Woolf (UCLA)
Quantum Computing and Neural Networks
16:30
Conclusion
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