| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | OPENING SESSION |
| Discussion Leader: Louis Brus (Columbia U) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:35 pm | Peidong Yang (UC Berkeley)
"One Dimensional Nanostructures" |
| 8:35 pm - 9:30 pm | Daniel Neumark (UC Berkeley)
"Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Metal and Semiconductor Clusters" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am - 12:30 pm | ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES |
| Discussion Leader: Lai-Sheng Wang (Washington State U) |
| 8:55 am - 9:50 am | Bernd von Issendorff (U Freiburg)
"Photoelectron spectroscopy of larger simple metal clusters" |
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | Hot topic I: Andrej Grubisic (Johns Hopkins)
"KAl13: A stepping stone toward forming ionic cluster-assembled materials" |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:25 am - 11:20 am | Atsushi Nakajima (Keio U)
"Electronic properties of 1D organometallic sandwich clusters" |
| 11:20 am - 12:15 pm | Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký (Humboldt)
"Tailoring Functionality of Clusters by Size, Structure and Lasers" |
| 12:15 pm | Conference Photo |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SPINS |
| Discussion Leader: Stan Williams (HP) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:35 pm | Walt de Heer (Georgia Tech)
"Cluster Beam Deflections: Ferromagnetism, Ferroelectricity and the Cluster Beam Ensemble" |
| 8:35 pm - 9:30 pm | Charles Marcus (Harvard)
"Controlled spin entanglement and dephasing" |
| 9:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Poster Session I (Continued) |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES |
| Discussion Leader: Catherine Brechignac (CNRS Orsay) |
| 9:10 am - 10:05 am | Hongjie Dai (Stanford)
"Carbon Nanotubes: Latest Results and New Directions" |
| 10:05 am - 10:25 am | Hot topic II: Yue Wu (Harvard)
"Integration of Multiple Functions into Nanoscale Building Blocks" |
| 10:25 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:35 am | Eran Rabani (Tel Aviv)
"Nanometric Magnetoresistant Devices Based on the Aharonov-Bohm Effect" |
| 11:35 am - 12:30 pm | James Heath (CalTech)
"The development and applications of ultra-high density nanoelectronic circuitry" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (Continued) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | OPTICAL PROPERTIES |
| Discussion Leader: Alex Zunger (NREL) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:35 pm | Victor Klimov (LANL)
"Multiexciton and Interfacial Interactions in Nanocrystal-Quantum-Dot Assemblies: Implications for Ligh-Emitting, Lasing, and Photovoltaic Applications" |
| 8:35 pm - 9:30 pm | Richard Warburton (Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh)
"Manipulating charge and spin in a self-assembled quantum dot" |
| 9:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Poster Session I (Continued) |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NANOSTRUCTURES AND BIOLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli (MIT) |
| 9:10 am - 10:00 am | Amit Meller (Rowland)
"FRET and long time scale blinking of cyanine dyes in single molecule experiments" |
| 10:05 am - 10:25 am | Hot topic III: Jinwoo Cheon (Yonsei)
"Magnetic nanocrystals with correlated tunability for in vivo MRI cancer diagnosis, cell trafficking, and cytotoxicity" |
| 10:25 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:35 am | Joanna Aizenberg (Lucent Bell Laboratories)
"Optics and mechanics of multifunctional biological materials hierarchically assembled from the nano- to the macroscale" |
| 11:35 am - 12:30 pm | Christine Keating (Penn State)
"Striped metal wires: properties and potential applications" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PHYSICAL PROPERTIES |
| Discussion Leader: Joel Parks (Rowland) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:35 pm | Hellmut Haberland (U Freiburg)
"Melting of sodium clusters, where do the magic numbers come from?" |
| 8:35 pm - 9:30 pm | Uzi Landman (Georgia Tech)
"Emergent physics and chemistry of clusters: Fermion/boson clusters in quantum dots/traps, and nanocatalysis" |
| 9:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Poster Session II (Continued) |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | STRUCTURE-FUNCTION PROPERTIES |
| Discussion Leader: Paul Alivisatos (UC Berkeley) |
| 9:10 am - 10:05 am | Younan Xia (U Washington)
"Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Metallic Nanostructures" |
| 10:05 am - 10:25 am | Hot topic IV: David Norris (Minnesota)
"Doping Semiconductor Nanocrystals" |
| 10:25 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:35 am | Martin Jarrold (Indiana U)
"Melting, Premelting, and Glass Transitions in Gallium and Aluminum Clusters" |
| 11:35 am - 12:30 pm | Uri Banin (Hebrew U)
"From semiconductor quantum rods to metal-semiconductor nano-dumbbells" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II (Continued) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PHOTONICS |
| Discussion Leader: Hongkun Park (Harvard) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Naomi Halas (Rice)
"Nanoshells: Rationally designed plasmonic nanostructures" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Yoel Fink (MIT)
"Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor Fibers: spanning the nano to macro divide" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
