NSF Workshop on Nano-Scale Systems, Dynamics and Control

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003
One full-day workshop, one day before the American Control Conference
Silver Room, Adams Mark Hotel, Denver, Colorado
 
Chair, Metin Sitti , Carnegie Mellon University
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and The Robotics Institute


This workshop brought together many leading researchers from various disciplines and background for discussing the current status, future research directions, and potential applications of the newly emerging area of nano-scale systems, dynamics and control. 


Final report of this workshop:  NSF_Report (PDF File)  


Schedule and Downloadable Presentations:

8:00 – 8:45            Registration and Breakfast
8:45 – 9:00            Wellcome and Introduction

9:00 – 9:40            Carlo D. Montemagno , UCLA,  Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Complexity Theory
9:40 – 10:20          Rodney S. Ruoff , Northwestern, Nano-Mechanics ( PDF file )

10:20 – 10:40        Coffee Break

10:40 – 11:20        Aristides Requicha , USC, Nano-Robotics
11:20 – 12:00        Michael Roukes , Caltech, NEMS and Bio-Nanosensors

12:00 – 1:00          Lunch Break

1:00 – 1:30            Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Princeton, Equation-Free Multiscale Computation
1:30 – 2:00            Metin Sitti , CMU, Nanorobotic Manipulation and Manufacturing ,  (PDF file )
2:00 – 2:30            Heiko Jacobs , University of Minnesota, Self-Assembly Based Manufacturing: From Nanoparticle Devices to Integrated Circuits
2:30 – 3:00            Jason Gorman, NIST, Integrated Nano-to-Millimeter Manufacturing Technologies  (PDF file )

3:00 – 3:20            Coffee Break

3:20 – 3:50            Haris Pozidis, IBM Zurich , Control Aspects of MEMS-based Scanning-Probe Data Storage System   (PDF file )
3:50 – 4:20            Murti Salapaka , Iowa State   (PDF file )
4:20 – 4:50            Arvind Raman , Purdue, Nonlinear Dynamics at the Nanoscale  (PDF file )
4:50 – 5:20            Robert Folaron, Zyvex

5:20 – 5:30            Break

5:30 – 5:50             Andreas A. Polycarpou , UIUC, Friction-Vibration and Dynamics at the Micro/Nanoscales
5:50 – 6:10             Tomasz Kowalewski , CMU, Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscope Imaging Stability and Dynamics
6:10 – 6:30             Robert M'Closkey , UCLA
6:30 – 6:50            Kamal Youcef-Toumi , MIT, Metrology at the Nanoscale
6:50 – 7:10            Mark Shannon , UIUC, Nanofluidic Dynamics  ( PDF file )

7:10 – 8:00            Panel Discussion on Future Directions and Research Opportunities

8:00 - Banquet