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C60 Agenda

Monday, October 13th

Time

Event

Location

8:00 am - 9:00 am

Check-in & breakfast

Martel Hall

9:00 am - 9:15 am

Welcome

Tom Killian - Dean of Natural Sciences, Rice University

McMurtry Auditorium

9:15 am - 9:45 am

Lessons from a Career in Research and Leadership: How Institutional Environment Can Foster Breakthrough Discoveries

Peter Rossky - Harry C. & Olga K. Wiess Chair in Natural Sciences; retired Dean of Natural Sciences (Rice)

McMurtry Auditorium

9:45 am - 10:00 am

Break - and Group Photo

Martel Hall

10:00 am - 11:10 am

Honor the History

Introduction: Angel Martí - Chair, Department of Chemistry (Rice University)

Video: Family and colleague vignettes

Panel: Moderator, Jun Kono, Director of the Smalley-Curl Institute.

Panelists, former grad students Jim Heath, Sean O’Brien and Jonathan Hare (Jonathan via Zoom)

McMurtry Auditorium

11:10 am - 11:25 pm

Break

Martel Hall

11:25 pm - 12:10 pm

Science Policy and Why it Matters Panel: Moderator, Nathan Cook, Sr. Dir. of Government Relations (Rice)

Panelists, Prof. Paul Nightingale, University of Sussex; Kenneth Evans, Fellow at Baker Institute of Public Policy; Kei Koizumi, former Principal Deputy Director for Science, Society and Policy, White House

McMurtry Auditorium

12:10 pm - 2:10 pm

Lunch and Lab Tours

Martel Hall and other locations

2:10 pm - 3:30 pm

Legacy of the Buckminsterfullerene: the rise of nano-carbon and quantum

2:10 Chapman Lecture Series: Prof. Sumio Ijima - University Professor,Meijo University; Senior Research Fellow

3:00 Prof. Chad Mirkin - George B. Rathmann - Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University; triple National Academy member: Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

McMurtry Auditorium

3:50 pm - 4:05 pm

Break

Martel Hall

4:05 pm - 5:15 pm

Saving the World - applications and uptake of nanomaterials

Bruce Weisman - Professor of Chemistry; co-founder of LumiStrain

Panel discussion - pathway to commercialization. Moderator, Adrien Trömel, Interim Vice President for Innovation (Rice)

Panelists, Bryan Hassin (DexMat); Alvin Orbaek White (TrimTabs); Suman Khatiwada (Syzygy)

McMurtry Auditorium

5:30 pm

Reception and Banquet - by invitation only

Cohen House

Tuesday, October 14th

Time

Event

Location

8:00 am - 8:20 am

Check-in & breakfast

Martel Hall

8:15 am - 8:25 am

Opening remarks

Jun Kono

McMurtry Auditorium

8:25 am - 8:35

Nano - Session Chair: Matteo Pasquali - Director, Carbon Hub, Rice University

McMurtry Auditorium

8:35 am - 9:05 am

Laurent Cognet - Research Director in Physics, CNRS: Nano and Photonics in Neuroscience and Cancer

McMurtry Auditorium

9:05 am - 9:35 am

Michael Strano - Member: National Academy of Engineering; Carbon P. Dubbs Professor in Chemical Engineering at MIT: Sensor applications of carbon nanotube fluorescence: the legacy of nanocarbon photophysics at Rice

McMurtry Auditorium

9:35am - 9:55 am

Geoff Wehmeyer - Assistant Prof., Mechanical Engineering, Rice University: Heat Transfer in Solution-Spun Carbon Nanotube Fibers

McMurtry Auditorium

9:55 am - 10:15 am

Matt Jones - Assistant Prof., Chemistry, Rice University: Golden Fullerenes are Synthetic Precursors to Nanoparticles

McMurtry Auditorium

10:15 am - 10:25 am

Discussion

McMurtry Auditorium

10:25 am - 10:35 am

Break

Martel Hall

10:35 am - 10:45 am

Materials - Session Chair: Emilia Morosan - Director, Rice Center for Quantum Materials

McMurtry Auditorium

10:45 am - 11:15 am

Mohammad Hafezi - Minta Martin Professor, Physics, University of Maryland: A New Era in Quantum Optics: Probing and Manipulating Correlated Materials

McMurtry Auditorium

11:15 am - 11:45 am

Ramamoorthy Ramesh - Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Energy Technologies, UC Berkeley, and former Executive VP of Research, Rice University: Antiferromagnetic Spintronics

McMurtry Auditorium

11:45 am - 12:05 pm

Ming Yi - Associate Prof., Physics and Astronomy, Rice University: Geometrically Frustrated Quantum Materials

McMurtry Auditorium

12:05 pm - 12:25 pm

Shengxi Huang - Associate Prof., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University: New Photonic and Phononic Properties Activated by Carbon Defects

McMurtry Auditorium

12:25 pm - 12:35 pm

Discussion

McMurtry Auditorium

12:35 pm -2:05 pm

Lunch and Posters: presentations by senior research leaders from around the world

Martel Hall

2:05 pm - 2:15 pm

Quantum - Session Chair: Kaden Hazzard - Director, Rice Quantum Initiative

McMurtry Auditorium

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm

Dan Stamper-Kurn - Professor, UC Berkeley and Director of the Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation: Ultracold Atoms for Quantum Science

McMurtry Auditorium

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm

Allan MacDonald - Member: National Academy of Science; Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Physics #1, UT Austin: Moiré Materials: A C60 Grandchild

McMurtry Auditorium

3:15 pm - 3:35 pm

Guido Pagano - Assistant Prof., Physics and Astronomy, Rice University: Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulation of Chemical Dynamics beyond Born-Oppenheimer

McMurtry Auditorium

3:35 pm - 3:55 pm

Gyu-Boong Jo - Prof., Physics and Astronomy, Rice University: Quantum Metamaterials Engineered with Atoms

McMurtry Auditorium

3:55 pm - 4:05 pm

Discussion

McMurtry Auditorium

4:05 pm - 4:30 pm

Closing Comments - Tom Killian - Dean of Natural Sciences, Rice University

McMurtry Auditorium