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Nanomechanics: From Cells to Solids

Schedule Weeks 1 & 2

All lectures are held in Beckman Institute Auditorium

 

Lectures begin promptly at 9 a.m. Tuesday, July 3 and wrap up Thursday, July 12 at 5:00 p.m.
 
 

 

Week 1 July 3-6, 2007
time TUESDAY
July 3		 WEDNESDAY
July 4		 THURSDAY
July 5		 FRIDAY
July 6
Kick-off Day      
9:00-10:15 am Moselio (Elio) Schaechter
Why You Should Love Microbes		 Evan Evans
Membranes and Adhesion 1		 Zev Bryant
Et sic per gradus ad mia tenditur: Extracting
Information from Biomolecules using force if Necessary		 Dyche Mullins
The Secret of Life of Actin 1
10:15-10:45 am -Break-
10:45-12:00 noon Julie Theriot
Motility and the Cytoskeleton 1		 Evan Evans
Membranes and Adhesion 2 		Zev Bryant
One-Eighties, Seven-twenties, and other Extreme Tricks
Fueled by ATP		 Dyche Mullins
The Secret of Life of Actin 2
12:00-2:00 pm -Lunch & Informal Discussion-
2:00-3:15 pm Julie Theriot
Motility and the Cytoskeleton 2 		Thomas R. Powers
Life at Low Reynolds Number 1		 L. Ben Freund
Mechanics of Adhesive Contact from Macroscopic to Molecular: It's Only Hertz for a Little While 1		 Jané Kondev
Rods, Ropes and Chromosomes: From Gene Expression to DNA Recombination 1
3:45-5:00 pm Paul Selvin
Molecular Motors 1

Alexander Grosberg
A potpourri of sketches on polymer dynamics I

 L. Ben Freund
Mechanics of Adhesive Contact from Macroscopic to Molecular: It's Only Hertz for a Little While 2 		Jané Kondev
Rods, Ropes and Chromosomes: From Gene Expression to DNA Recombination 2
5:00-5:15 pm -Break-
5:15-6:30 pm Paul Selvin
Molecular Motors 2 		"Lightening Presentations" Alexander Grosberg
A potpourri of sketches on polymer dynamics II		  
7:00 pm Group Activity
Burger Continental dinner (meal not provided but available for purchase) 		Visitors on their own Group Party
(dinner provided) Beckman Institute Courtyard, Caltech 		Visitors on their own
         

 

 

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Week 2 July 9-12, 2007
time MONDAY
July 9		 TUESDAY
July 10		 WEDNESDAY
July 11		 THURSDAY
July 12
Classical NEMS Quantum NEMS 1st Principles Investigations of NEMS/Metrology with NEMS Electron-phonon Interactions
9:00-10:15 am Michael Roukes
Overview of NEMS 		Aashish (Aash) Clerk
A Quantum Noise Approach to Quantum NEMS:  Introduction and   
Effective Baths		 Robert Rudd
Nanomechanical Theory: From Atoms to NEMS I 		Tobias Brandes
Electrons Meet Phonons: From Single Vibration Modes to Quantum
Dissipation I
10:15-10:45 am -Break-
10:45-12:00 noon Andrew Armour
Nanomechanical Fluctuation and Dissipation: Some Surprises in the
Classical Regime I		 Aashish (Aash) Clerk
A Quantum Noise Approach to Quantum NEMS:  Quantum-Limited Detection and Exotic States		 Robert Rudd
Nanomechanical Theory: From Atoms to NEMS II		 Tobias Brandes
Electrons Meet Phonons: From Single Vibration Modes to Quantum
Dissipation II
12:00-2:00 pm -Lunch-
2:00-2:45 pm Andrew Armour
Nanomechanical Fluctuation and Dissipation: Some Surprises in the
Classical Regime II		 Jack Harris
Strong Dispersive Coupling between MEMS and Optical
Cavities; or: a Solar Sail at Symplegades		 Kamil Ekinci
High Frequency Nanofluidics of NEMS		 Ilari Maasilta
Electron-Phonon Interaction in Metals: from Disorder to Low-Dimensional
Phonons I
2:45-3:45 pm Andrew Cleland
How to Make, Actuate and Monitor Resonant Mechanical Nanostructures		 Andrew Cleland
Attempting to Achieve the Quantum Limit in Mechanical Nanostructures		 Kamil Ekinci
Nanomechanical Motion Detection and the Radio-frequency STM		 Ilari Maasilta
Electron-Phonon Interaction in Metals: from Disorder to Low-Dimensional
Phonons II
3:45-4:15 pm -Break-
4:15-5:15 pm Jack Harris
The Simple Harmonic Oscillator: Quantum Flesh on Classical Bones		 Ron Lifshitz
Things You Can Do with Just a Single Nonlinear Nanoresonator 		Ron Lifshitz
The Rich Nonlinear Dynamics of Coupled Nanoresonators 		Wrap-Up
5:15-6:30 pm   Lightening Presentations    
7:00 pm Group Activity
Burger Continental dinner (meal not provided but available for purchase)		 Visitors on their own Group Party
(dinner provided) Beckman Institute Courtyard, Caltech 		Visitors on their own
         

 

 

 

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