MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
Nanoscience Society – 2nd day
| Morning Session | | The Nano Journey: from Billions to Trillions and Beyond | John Kelly, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research, IBM Corporation, USA | | The Story of Computing: How Making Things Smaller Makes Them More Powerful | Mark Horowitz, Chairman Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA | | A new discovery for the wireless transmission of large dataflows | Fabrizio Tamburini, Astrophysicist, Civen; University of Padova and IAES, Italy | | The Challenge of Future Robots | Giulio Sandini, Director of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy | | Achieving Continuous Operation of Huge, Complex and Ever-Changing Systems in the Nanotechnology Era | Mario Tokoro, Professor Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University; President and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Japan |
| Afternoon Session | | Manufacture of functional nanomaterials and devices | Sotiris E. Pratsinis, Department of Mechanical & Process Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland | | Multifuntional Polymeric Nanocomposites | Athanassia Athanassiou, Senior Researcher, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy | | Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy | Michael Grätzel, Professor, École Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland
| | The future challenges and opportunities in nanoscience for the environment | Nora Savage, Chair, 2013 Environmental Nanotechnology Gordon Research Conference, Washington DC, USA | | How Does the Public Make Sense of New Research Areas?" | Massimiano Bucchi, Professor of Science and Technology in Society, University of Trento, Italy |
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