PASI Program

Day 1 (11/13):

• 8:30-9:00 Opening Ceremony (H.D. Espinosa, G. Buscaglia, G. Paulino) [PDF]
• 9:00 - 10:30 L1 Self-Assembled Monolayers and Applications (R. Salvarezza) [PDF]
• 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00 - 12:00 L1 Self-Assembled Monolayers and Applications (R. Salvarezza) [PDF]
• 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
• 1:00 - 2:30 L2 Nanostructured Multilayers of Redox Polymers and Enzymes for Molecular Recognition and Electrical Signal Generation (E. Calvo) [PDF 1] [PDF 2] [PDF 3]
• 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break
• 3:00 - 5:30 Electronic Structure Calculations and Applications (Schatz) [PDF]

Day 2 (11/14):

• 8:30-10:30 L4 Biological Nanomechanics (R. Phillips) [PDF 1] [PDF 2]
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00-12:00 L5 Disease Detection and Treatment (W. Soboyejo) [PDF]
• 12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
• 1:00-2:00 L5 Disease Detection and Treatment (W. Soboyejo) [PDF]
• 2:00-3:00 L6 Atomistic Modeling of DNA and Protein Structure (Schatz) [PDF]
• 3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
• 3:30-5:00 L6 Atomistic Modeling of DNA and Protein Structure (Schatz) [PDF]

Day 3 (11/15):

• 8:30-10:30 L7 On the Karhunen-Loeve Basis for Continuous Mechanical Systems (R. Sampaio) [PDF]
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00-12:00 L8 Multiscale Modeling (G. Paulino)
• 12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
• 1:00-2:00 L8 Multiscale Modeling (G. Paulino)
• 2:00-3:00 L9 MEMS Devices for In-Situ EM Testing of Nanostructures (Espinosa) [PDF]
• 3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
• 3:30-5:00 L10 Microfluidic Probes for the Life Sciences (Espinosa) [PDF]

Day 4 (11/16):

• 8:30-10:00 L11 Computational Nanomechanics (S. Yip) [PDF]
• 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
• 10:30-12:00 L11 Computational Nanomechanics (S. Yip) [PDF]
• 12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
• 1:00-3:00 L12 Computational Modeling of NEMS (S. Mukherjee) [PDF 1] [PDF 2] [PDF 3] [PDF 4]
• 3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
• 3:30-5:00 L12 Computational Modeling of NEMS (S. Mukherjee) [PDF 1] [PDF 2] [PDF 3] [PDF 4]
• 5:00-6:30 Break
• 6:30-8:30 Poster Presentation by Students and Other Participants

Day 5 (11/17):

• 8:30-10:00 L13 MEMS/NEMS (M. Roukes) [PDF]
• 10:00-10:30 coffee break
• 10:30-12:00 L13 MEMS/NEMS (M. Roukes) [PDF]
• 12:00-1:00 lunch break
• 1:30-3:00 L14 Computational Modeling of Nano Probe Dynamics (A. Lew)
• 3:00-3:30 coffee break
• 3:30-5:00 L15 Nanotechnology in Brazil (F. Rochinha) [PDF]
• BANQUET on Friday November 17

Day 6 (11/20):

• 8:30-9:15 L16 NSF Programs in Nano Science and Engineering (Ken Chong)
• 9:15-10:30 L17 Nanomanufacturing (Z. Fu) [PDF 1] [PDF 2] [PDF 3]
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00-12:00 L18 Introduction to Biomaterials and Biomolecular Self Assembly (Olvera) [PDF 1] [PDF 2]
• 12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
• 1:00-3:00 L19 Nanoelectronics-Device Physics and Fabrication Technology (Hersam) [PDF]
• 3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
• 3:30-5:00 L19 Probing Molecular Electronics with Scanning Probe Microscopy (Hersam) [PDF]

Day 7 (11/21):

• 8:30-10:00 L20 Bioactive Nanostructures (Stupp)
• 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
• 10:30-12:00 L21 Pattern Formation in Co-Assembled Cationic and Anionic Amphiphiles (Olvera) [PDF]
• 12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
• 1:00-3:00 L22 X-ray Characterization of Nanomaterials (Bedzyk) [PDF 1] [PDF 2] [PDF 3] [PDF 4] [PDF 5]
• 3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
• 3:30-5:00 L22 X-ray Characterization of Nanomaterials (Bedzyk) [PDF 1] [PDF 2] [PDF 3] [PDF 4] [PDF 5]

Day 8 (11/22):

• 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Hands-on Laboratory Sessions (G. Nieva, A. Fainstein, H. Pastoriza)

Schedule

The PASI on Nano and Biotechnology is conceived as a ten-day event, with the participation of approximately thirty students (half from Latin America and half from the USA). The meeting will consist of Tutorial Lectures imparted by approximately fifteen speakers, followed by Specialized Contributions, and sessions of Posters for contributed papers. There will be a one-day hands-on Training Laboratory where the participants will become familiar with some aspect of nanotechnology.

The planned Poster and Debate sessions will provide an opportunity for intense interaction by all the participants. We anticipate that this PASI will be attended not only by the instructors and students supported by the PASI, but by a number of more senior members of the research community in Latin America, Canada, and the US. We expect that the program will be attractive to a wide audience, and that researchers not funded by the present PASI project will find ways to support their own participation in this event. The Poster sessions should provide a forum for all the participants to present recent results, even if they are not delivered as lecturers in the PASI. The number of posters will be adjusted as needed. The tentative proposed schedule includes 18 Tutorial Lectures (T), 11 Specialized Contributions (SC), one-day hands-on Training Laboratory work (LAB), Poster sessions (P) and informal discussions (Debate).