C60 Agenda
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Monday, October 13th
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Time Event Location 8:00 am - 9:00 am Check-in & breakfast Martel Hall 9:00 am - 9:15 am Opening remarks McMurtry Auditorium 9:15 am - 9:45 am Lessons of Success: what it takes for an institution to foster Nobel-level breakthroughs McMurtry Auditorium 9:45 am - 10:00 am Break Martel Hall 10:00 am - 11:00 am Honor the History - Family and colleague vignettes; panel discussion with former grad students McMurtry Auditorium 11:00 am - 11:15 pm Break Martel Hall 11:15 pm - 12:05 pm Science Policy and Why it Matters - panel discussion with Washington, UK and Rice experts
McMurtry Auditorium 12:05 pm - 1:50 pm Lunch and Lab Tours
Martel Hall and other locations 1:50 pm - 4:05 pm Legacy of the Buckminsterfullerene: the rise of nano-carbon and quantum. Profs. Sumio Ijima, Konstantin Novoselov and Chad Mirkin McMurtry Auditorium 4:05 pm - 4:15 pm Break Martel Hall 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Saving the World - applications and uptake of nanomaterials McMurtry Auditorium 5:30 pm Reception and Banquet - by invitation only Cohen House -
Tuesday, October 14th
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Time Event Location 8:00 am - 8:30 am Check-in & breakfast Martel Hall 8:30 am - 8:40 am Opening remarks - Jun Kono McMurtry Auditorium 8:40 am Nano - Session Chair: Matteo Pasquali McMurtry Auditorium 8:50 am - 9:10 am Laurent Cognet: Nano and Photonics in Neuroscience and Cancer McMurtry Auditorium 9:15 am - 9:35 am Michael Strano: Sensor applications of carbon nanotube fluorescence: the legacy of nanocarbon photophysics at Rice McMurtry Auditorium 9:40am - 9:50 am Geoff Wehmeyer: Heat transfer in solution-spun carbon nanotube fibers McMurtry Auditorium 9:55 am - 10:15 am Matt Jones: 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 McMurtry Auditorium 10:45 am - 11:05 am Allan McDonald McMurtry Auditorium 11:10 am - 11:30 am Ramamoorthy Ramesh McMurtry Auditorium 11:35 am - 11:55 am Ming Yi McMurtry Auditorium 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm Shengxi Huang McMurtry Auditorium 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion McMurtry Auditorium 12:30 pm -2:00 pm Lunch and Posters: presentations by senior research leaders from around the world Martel Hall 2:00 pm - 2:10 pm Quantum - Session Chair: Kaden Hazzard McMurtry Auditorium 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm Dan Stamper-Kurn McMurtry Auditorium 2:45 pm - 3:05 pm Mohammad Hafezi McMurtry Auditorium 3:10 pm - 3:30 pm Guido Pagano McMurtry Auditorium 3:35 pm - 3:55 pm Guy-Boong Jo McMurtry Auditorium 3:55 pm - 4:05 pm Discussion McMurtry Auditorium 4:10 pm - 4:20 pm Closing Comments - Jun Kono McMurtry Auditorium