Agenda (preliminary)

Monday, October 7, 2002 - Moffett Training and Conference Center

9:00 AM Welcome, Introduction-
Scott Hubbard, Director NASA Ames Research Center
David Black, USRA
9:30 AM Biology-Information Science-Nanotechnology Fusion, Motivation and Investment-Minoo Dastoor, Senior Advisor to the Associate Administrator, Code R
Session 1, Presentations: Challenges from NASA Missions
Session Chair: Eugene Tu
10:00 AM Space Science Enterprise-Harley Thronsen/Dave Lavery (Invited)
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM Earth Science Enterprise – Jen-Chow Duh
11:30 AM OPBR – Stephen Davison
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM HEDS – John Tinsley
1:30 PM NASA Mission Challenges: NEXT planning – John Tinsley
Technology Integration and NASA Missions Panel and Discussions
2:00 PM Group Discussion
Moderators: John Hines/Jim Arnold
3:00 PM Break
Session 2, URETIs
Session Chair: Harry Partridge
3:30 PM UCLA-Bio/Info/Nano – Chih-Ming Ho
4:00 PM Purdue-Nanoelectronics – Mark Lundstrom
4:30 PM

MIT-Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (DoD center)
William Peters

5:00 PM Close
6:30 PM Cocktails at Restorante Don Giovanni
7:00 PM Group Dinner at Restorante Don Giovanni

Tuesday, October 8, 2002

7:30 AM Registration, Breakfast (coffee, tea, pastries)
Session 3, Biology & Nanotechnology in Information Science
Session Chair: Dan Clancy
8:30 AM Use of DNA to solve IT challenges
Len Adleman (USC)
9:00 AM Use nanotechnology to solve IT challenges
Colin Williams (JPL/Stanford)
9:30 AM Use of biology to solve data recognition challenges
Mitra Hartmann (Caltech)
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM Autonomous Agents
Stuart Kauffmann (Santa Fe Institute)
11:00 AM Group Discussion (All)
11:45 AM Lunch
Session 4, Biology and Information Science in Nanotechnology
Session Chair: Meyya Meyyappan
1:00PM Assembly in nanotechnology
Erik Winfree (Caltech)
1:30PM Biology to assembly nanotechnology
Johanthan Trent (NASA Ames)
2:00 PM Neurosciences and nanotechnology
Dan Hammerstrom (Oregon Graduate Institute)
2:30 PM Group discussion (All)
3:15 PM Break
Session 5, Discussions
Session Chair: TR Govindan
3:30 PM Open Space
5:00 PM Plenary: summary of openspace discussion
6:00 PM Dinner on your own

Wednesday, October 9, 2002

7:30 AM Breakfast (coffee, tea, pastries)
Session 6, Information Science & Nanotechnology in Biology
Session Chair: Greg Schmidt
8:30 AM Life detection and sensors
Michael Storrie-Lombardi (JPL)
9:00 AM Nanopores
Viktor Stolc (NASA Ames)
9:30 AM Computational biology & bioinformatics
Andrew Pohorille (NASA Ames)
10:00 AM Group discussions (All)
10:45 AM Break
Session 7, URETIs
Session Chair: Tom Sutter
11:00 AM Texas A&M (Materials)
11:30 AM Princeton (Materials)
12:00 PM Lunch
Session 8, Discussions
Session Chair: Kathleen Connell
1:00 PM Open space discussions
Moderator: Kathleen Connell
2:30 PM Plenary: summary of open space discussion
3:30 PM Break
3:45 PM Plenary Summary; discussion and key findings
Moderator: Scott Hubbard
4:30 PM Adjourn


Responsible NASA Official: Scott Hubbard
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