CONFERENCE
ANNOUNCEMENT
Conference:
FOUNDATIONS OF NANOSCIENCE:
SELF-ASSEMBLED ARCHITECTURES AND DEVICES
(FNANO04)
Conference
Sponsorship: Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Place: Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah
Date: April 21-23, 2004
Conference Webpage: http://www.cs.duke.edu/FNANO04
Conference Schedule:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/FNANO04/schedule.html
Registration List:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/FNANO04/attendees.html
INTRODUCTION
Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and
Devices
Summary: Foundations of Nanoscience is intended to have a major impact on
the emerging field of nanoscience and self-assembly -- it will for the first
time get those people working in self-assembly in the same place. It is
intended that the conference on Foundations of Nanoscience is to be held
annually in subsequent years.
Overview: The construction of molecular scale structures at the scale of the
1 - 100 nanometer range is one of the key challenges facing science and
technology in the twenty-first century. This challenge is at the core of an
emerging discipline of Nanoscience, which is at a critical stage of
development. There have been some notable successes in the construction of
individual molecular components (e.g., carbon nanotubes, and various molecular
electronic devices), and the individual manipulation of molecules by probing
devices. However, a key deficiency is the lack of methods for constructing
complex devices out of large numbers of these molecular components. We need
methods to help us hold, shape, and assemble various molecular components into
complex machines and systems.
Top-down methods for
construction of nanostructures, such as e-beam lithography, have inherent
limitations in scale. Bottom-up methods appear to have no such scale
limitations. Self-assembly is a bottom-up method of construction where
substructures are spontaneously self-ordered into superstructures driven by the
selective affinity of the substructures. While top-down methods are well
understood, and widely used in engineering and manufacturing processes,
self-assembly is a much less well-understood construction process. Chemists have for many decades used
self-assembly methods (for example, for the self-assembly of lipid or polymer
layers), but they conventionally result in structures with limited complexity,
and are not readily programmable. However the cell is self-assembled, and
contains many complex structured components.
A
missing pillar in the emerging discipline of Nanoscience is an understanding of
self-assembly methods for forming complex structured components. For a variety
of historical reasons, self-assembly processes and experiments have not been
examined by science to the degree that is now needed by Nanoscience. The
Conference will provide a synergism for a community of scholars working in
self-assembly related areas who would otherwise not have contact with each
other.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Invited Papers Due: February 25, 2004
Poster Submission Deadline: February 25, 2004
CUT-OFF
DATE for Snowbird Hotel Room Reduced Rates: February
15, 2004
SPONSOR: Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
Program Chair: John Reif
Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC
Email:
Phone: 919-660-6568
Program Committee: Track Chairs
Track on Principles and Theory of Self-Assembly:
Track Chair: Leonard
Adleman, Laboratory for
Molecular Science, University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA
Track on Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures:
Track Chair: Nadrian
Seeman, Department of
Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY
Track on Self-Assembled Surface Chemistry:
Track Chair: Lloyd
Smith, Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Track on Peptide and Viral Self-Assembly
Track Chair: Michael Hecht, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Track on Conformal, Magnetic & Hydophobic-Hydrophilic
Self-Assembly:
Track Chair: Karl
Bohringer, Department of
Electrical Engineering, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA
Track on DNA-Metal Aggregates:
Track Chair: George
C. Schatz, Department of
Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Track on Molecular Electronics Devices:
Track Chairs: James R.
Heath, Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology, Los Angeles, CA
& Kwan Kwok,
Microsystems Technology Office (MTO),
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
Arlington, VI
Track on Molecular Electronics Architectures:
Track Chairs: R.
Stanley Williams & Philip J. Kuekes,
Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Track on Molecular Motors:
Track Chair: Andrew
Turberfield, Department of
Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Track on Fullerene Nanostructures:
Track Chair: Jie
Liu, Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC
Track on Molecular Sensors:
Track
Chair: Homme Hellinga, Department
of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical School, Durham, NC
Track on New Funding Program Ideas
Track Chair: Sri Kumar, Information
Processing Technology Office(IPTO),
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
Arlington, VI
Preliminary SCHEDULE: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/schedule.html
INVITED TALKS:
The Conference will
contain Invited Talks (all talks in the main Conference Sessions are by
invitation only) in the Main Session Tracks listed above. The length of each
regular Invited Talk time slot is 20 minutes (17 minutes for the presentation
plus 3 minutes questions). The length of Invited Talk by each Track Chair is 30
minutes, to allow for extra time to also introduce & overview the session
topic.
WEB SUBMISSION
INVITED PAPERS:
Submission
Deadline: February 25, 2004
All
Invited Speakers are invited and requested to submit an Invited Paper, due
February 25, 2004, to appear in the Conference Proceedings. Each invited
speaker should submit at least an abstract and is encouraged to submit a paper
up to 15 pages. The Conference Proceedings will be published as an electronic
book by an electronic publisher, and both electronic and printed versions of
the proceedings will be subsequently available by commercial book venders. A
hard copy of the preliminary Conference Proceedings will also be provided to
registered Conference attendees.
Detailed
specifications of the paper format is posted at web location:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/instructions.html
. The submission of an Invited Paper is via the paper submission web
page: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/submit
. On that paper submission web page, first select ÒCreate an AccountÓ to define your own login name and
password. (For security on that paper submission web site, please use a
non-obvious password. Be sure to record your chosen login name and password,
since then you can subsequent repeatedly re-upload your paper and/or change
contact names or paper title until February 25. Please do not later re-submit
you paper under a second login name, since this will cause us confusion.) Then
after defining your own login name and password, you should next select
ÒLoginÓat the paper submission web page http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/submit
. After entering your login name and password, you will be able to upload your
PDF formatted paper. Please then
select "Invited Paper" in the web pull-down paper category choice.
***
Unfortunately, we have a firm paper submission deadline of February 25, and
after that deadline the website will close down so the electronic publisher can
format the proceedings.
REQUIRED COPYRIGHT
FORM (due by February 25, 2004):
When submitting your
Invited Paper or Poster Abstract, please be sure you fill out, sign and date
the copyright form at web URL: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/copyright.pdf
and fax the completed
form to "Foundations of Nanoscience Conference" at fax number:
919-660-6519. *** We can not include your paper in the proceedings unless the
fax reaches us by February 25.
POSTER SESSIONS:
Submission Deadline:
February 25, 2004
The Conference will also contain submitted Poster Presentations.
The topic of the poster can be in any of the areas of self-assembly or
applications. To request a Poster Presentation, you will need to upload by February
25, 2004 a one page abstract (including authors, title, affiliation, address,
phone number, fax number, and email address) at web location:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/submit
. On that paper submission web page, select
"Poster Abstract" in the web pull-down paper category choice. The format for submitted abstracts is a one-page version of
the proceedings paper format posted at web location:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/instructions.html
. Acceptances/Rejections will be notified by March 1,
2004. If accepted, then in addition to the poster presentation, the submitted
one page abstract will also be included in the Conference Proceedings.
The
due date of February 25 is firm; poster abstract submissions will not be
possible after that date.
Invitation
of Group Poster Presentations. Each invited speaker, in addition to delivering
a talk and posting a paper to the paper submission website, is encouraged to
invite research group members or collaborators to submit posters. There is limit of two poster
submissions per invited speaker's group, and a requirement that the poster presenters
should not be the invited speaker (but can be members of the invited speaker's
group or collaborators). These restrictions are imposed since the posters are
intended to supplement (but not repeat) the speakerÕs talk and/or present other
timely material. The Conference poster session organizers will provide standard
mounting space for each poster.
If
a member of an Invited SpeakerÕs group is submitting a poster:
In
addition to the electronic submission of a one page paper at web location, http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/submit
described above, please have the poster presenter email by February 25 the
following information to with email
subject title 'FNANO Poster":
(0)
Name of Poster Presenter: ______
(1)
Name of Affiliated Invited Speaker: ______
(2)
Track: ______
(3)
Poster Title: ______
(4)
Affiliation: ______
(5)
Mailing Address: ______
(6)
Phone: ______
(7)
Fax: ______
(8)
Email Address: ______
CONFERENCE
REGISTRATION: Fee $350 due March 1, 2004 (not required for Invited
Speakers). If you are not an Invited Speaker and intend to attend the
Conference (to present a Poster presentation or otherwise attending the talks),
please send by February 25 a check in the name of "Duke Dept of Computer
Science" to Foundations of Nanoscience
Conference, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC
27708 USA.
If
you have not done this already, please email to the following;
Name _____
Affiliation: ______
Mailing Address: ______
Phone: ______
Fax: ______
Email Address: ______
CONFERENCE LOCATION:
The Conference will be at the Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird,
Utah. It is 20 miles from Salt Lake International Airport.
HOTEL
ACCOMMODATIONS:
CUT-OFF
DATE for Snowbird Hotel Room Reduced Rates: February
15, 2004.
We
have negotiated the following considerably reduced rates for hotel rooms at Snowbird: one hundred Rooms will be $105.00/night at the Snowbird
Cliff Lodge, and $95.00/night at the Lodge
at Snowbird (8 minutes walk from Snowbird Cliff Lodge, where the Conference
Sessions are held). The reduced rates are generally available for the dates
April 19-25 to allow for an extended stay. Reservations with these discount
rates are available for booking by calling 800-453-3000 or 801-742-2222. Be
sure to specify that you attending the "Foundations of Nanoscience"
Conference to insure that you are not charged higher rate. The rooms at either
of these hotels are quite spacious and comfortable. Book early to get the
reduced rates. Space is limited; rooms may NOT be available after February 15.
FACILITIES:
The facilities at Snowbird include
multiple restaurants, swimming pools & hot tubes, athletic spa, skating
rink and world-class skiing. (In addition to the main ski slopes, there is also
a beginner's skiing slope that is free at night. There is also free all day
skiing for any children with a parent that purchases a ski ticket.)
TRANSPORTATION
TO AND FROM AIRPORT: A Canyon Transport van to Snowbird from the Airport baggage claim
area costs $25 (during regularly scheduled times) and takes 40 minutes. You can
make reservations at 801-742-340 or (800) 255-1841. The road up though Little
Cottonwood Canyon to Snowbird is rarely
closed for snow removal, but this can occur very occasionally in the evening
during a very large snowstorm, and also rarely for a period in the morning
afterward. Although these events are unlikely, just in case, we strongly
suggest you arrive early to avoid problems.
RELATED EVENTS:
An NSF Workshop
on Self-Assembled Architectures will be co-located and be simultaneous with this Foundations of
Nanoscience Conference. The NSF workshop's goal will be to study the research
challenges and opportunities to NSF in the areas of Self-Assembly, particularly
with respect to Self-Assembly methods for Architectures. There will be two
evening sessions April 21 and 22; see NSF Workshop
Schedule.