Fundamentals and Applications
of Mesoscopic Self-Assembly		  

Meeting Schedule

8:00 AM - Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - Welcoming Remarks
Steven J. Sibener
Director of MRSEC
The University of Chicago

8:45 AM - Opening Remarks
David Grier
Conference Organizer
The University of Chicago

9:00 AM
Heinrich Jaeger
Talk: TBA
Web page: http://jfi.uchicago.edu/~jaeger/hmj/
JFI and Dept. of Physics
The University of Chicago

10:00 AM
Shanhui Fan
Talk: "Photonic crystals: New opportunities for manipulating light" (Abstract)
Web page: rleweb.mit.edu/rlestaff/p-fan.htm
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

11:00 AM - Coffee Break

11:15 AM
Pierre Wiltzius
Talk: "Colloidal self-assembly and photonic crystals" (Abstract)
Web page: www.bell-labs.com/org/physicalsciences/profiles/pierre.html
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs

12:15 PM - Lunch and Posters

1:30 PM
Ilhan Aksay
Talk: "Guided self-assembly of organic/inorganic hybrids" (Abstract)
Web page: www.princeton.edu/~chemical/faculty/aksay.html
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Princeton University

2:30 PM
David Grier
Talk: "Guiding self-assembly with light"
Web page: http://griergroup.uchicago.edu/
Dept. of Physics
JFI and The University of Chicago

3:30 PM - Coffee Break

4:15 PM
David Weitz
Talk: "Engineering structures for encapsulation with self-assembly" (Abstract)
Web page: www.deas.harvard.edu/projects/weitzlab/
Dept. of Physics
Harvard University

5:15 PM - Discussion and Closing Comments



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