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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