Destination Nano Agenda

Wednesday September 22nd    

8:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast          

8:20am: Welcome and Introduction – Center Directors Joey Mead and Carol Barry    

8:25am: Rep. Niki Tsongas, Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts 

8:30am: Carlos Martínez-Vela, MTC's John Adams Innovation Institute: University-Industry Partnerships: The Big Picture 

9:10am: Jim Whitten, UMass Lowell: Development of a Mixed Sensor System for the Detection of Hazardous Chemicals and Explosives

10:00am: Break

10:15am: Carol Barry, UMass Lowell: Polymer Based Nanomanufacturing

11:05am: Chuck Geraci, NIOSH: Responsible Development of Nanotechnology-NIOSH Research and Collaborations to Meet the Challenge 

12:00pm Lunch: John Rogers, University of Illinois: Some Recent Progress in Soft and Fluidic Approaches to Nanomanufacturing

1:00pm: Rick Hess, Konarka: Applications for Organic Nano-scale Polymer Photovoltaics 

1:50pm: Ahmed Busnaina, Northeastern: Nanomanufacturing Using Large Scale Directed Assembly of SWNT's and Nanoparticles

2:30pm: Break

2:45pm: Susan Braunhut, UMass Lowell: A novel living cell quartz crystal microbalance biosensor for continuous monitoring of cytotoxic responses of macrophages to engineered nanoparticles

3:35pm: Omid Farokhzad, Harvard Medical School: Medicinal Nanoengineering: From bench to bedside 

4:20pm: Arthur Snow, Naval Research Lab: Gold Nanocluster Sensors: Fundamentals and Recent Highlights

5:10pm: Closing remarks (Chancellor Meehan) 

Immediately following: Networking Reception featuring excerpts from "The Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show"

Thursday September 23rd   

8:00am: Continental Breakfast  

8:25am: Opening Remarks

8:30am: Dr. James Zheng, US Army – US Military Non-Destructive Body Armor Inspection 

9:20am: Peter Antoinette, Nanocomp Technologies, Inc. - Delivering the Promise of Carbon Nanotubes 

10:10am: Break 

10:25am: Christopher Niezrecki, UMass Lowell: Novel Sensing Efforts at UMass Lowell for Structural Health Monitoring

11:10am: Jackie Isaacs, Northeastern: Nanomaterial Environmental Health and Safety: Can lifecycle assessments provide insights?

12:00pm Lunch: Dana Granville/Paul DellaRocco, US Army: Nanomaterials in Defense 

1:00pm: Alkim Akyurtlu UMass Lowell: Electromagnetic Metamaterials 

1:50pm: Lauren Crews, Raytheon: Nanotechnology – Defense Industry Opportunities and Challenges

2:40pm: Break

2:55pm: Margo Jackisch, SETA to Dr. Angela Ervin, Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology, Chemical Detection Program

3:40pm: Joey Mead, UMass Lowell: Nanomanufacturing for Flexible Materials based applications

4:20pm: Closing Remarks