The Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology

The Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology was held November 9-11, 1995, in Palo Alto, California. It was a multidisciplinary meeting on molecular nanotechnology, that is, thorough three-dimensional structural control of materials and devices at the molecular level. Attendees included chemists, materials scientists, physicists, engineers, computer scientists and others interested in learning about the field and participating in its development.

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Video and audio tapes

Audio tapes are $10 per lecture + tax and mailing. Mailing is $2 per three tapes. Tax is 7.25% for CA residents.

Videotapes are $35 plus tax and shipping per two hour tape. The lectures are arranged sequentially on tape according to the conference program. Tax is as above and shipping is $3 per video tape.

A single conference highlights compilation videotape is available for the the same price as the other videtapes.

Complete list of speakers and poster presenters available

This is the web page for the conference. It's URL is: http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/nano4.html. This page now serves as an archival source of information about the conference, the attendees, the papers presented, etc. We will be adding and updating information over the next few months. We expect that drafts of most of the conference presentations will be made available on the web, linked from the conference page. Final versions of the papers that are accepted for publication will be published in Nanotechnology.

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ANNOUNCEMENT:

• Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
• November 9-11, 1995
• Palo Alto, California
• Sponsor: Foresight Institute
• Cosponsors:
  • The Materials and Process Simulation Center, Caltech.
  • The Laboratory for Molecular Robotics, USC.
  • The Institute for Molecular Manufacturing.

• supramolecular chemistry and self assembly
• proximal probes (e.g. STM, AFM)
• biochemistry and protein engineering
• computational chemistry and molecular modeling
• computer science (e.g. computational models, system design issues)
• natural molecular machines (e.g. flagellar motor, ribosome)
• materials science
• mechanical engineering (CAD) and robotics
• many others

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

SPEAKERS

• *Donald Brenner, North Carolina State University, Simulated Engineering of Nanostructures.
• *Richard Colton, NRL, Tip Surface Interactions.
• *Eric Drexler, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, Directions in Nanotechnology.
• Elizabeth Enayati, Weil Gotshal & Manges; Intellectual Property Update.
• Bruce Paul Gaber, David C. Turner, and Mary A. Testoff, NRL; Towards the Molecular Machine Shop - Spatially Controlled Enzymatic Modification of Solid Surfaces.
• Stephen L. Gillett, University of Nevada; Nanotechnology, Pollution Control, and Resources
• *William A. Goddard III, Caltech, Computational Chemistry and Nanotechnology.
• *Tracy Handel, Berkeley, Protein Design.
• *Admiral David Jeremiah, USN (Ret.), Technology Strategies and Alliances, Nanotechnology and Global Security.
• Neil Jacobstein, Teknowledge and IMM; Entrepreneuring in Molecular Manufacturing: Lessons from the Computer Industry
• Geoff Leach, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Advances in Molecular CAD.
• Tom McKendree, USC, Implications of Molecular Nanotechnology Technical Performance Parameters on Previously Defined Space System Architectures.
• *Ralph Merkle, Xerox PARC, Design Considerations for an Assembler, Binding sites for use in a simple assembler and Convergent Assembly.
• *Charles Musgrave, MIT, Chemical Synthesis of Nanomachinery.
• *Aristides Requicha, USC, Molecular Robotics.
• Rod Ruoff, Molecular Physics Lab, SRI; Bending, buckling, and breaking carbon nanotubes.
• Subhash Saini, NASA Ames; PetaFLOPS Computing and Computational Nanotechnology.
• Paul E. Sheehan and Charles M. Lieber, Harvard; Nanomachining, Manipulation and Fabrication by Force Microscopy.
• Tanya C. Sienko, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Japan; The Track of Japanese Nanotechnology Efforts: Present, Players, and Possibilities.
• *Richard Smalley, Rice University, Nanotechnology at Rice.
• *J. Fraser Stoddart, U. of Birmingham UK, The Art and Science of Self-Assembling Molecular Machines.
• David C. Turner, Stephanie L. Shields, Chunyen Chang, Kan Fang, Douglas B. Murphy, NRL; Patterned Microtubule Assemblies for Kinesin-Based Transport.
• Paul S. Weiss et al., Penn State University; Nanometer-Scale Features and Properties in Self-Assembled Systems.
• *George Whitesides, Harvard; Self Assembly and Nanotechnology.

A list of poster sessions is also available.

The 1995 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology was presented at the meeting to Nadrian C. Seeman.

CORPORATE SPONSORS

DEMONSTRATIONS

A demonstration of 3-D VRML models derived from Nanosystems was given by Construct.

JOURNAL PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS

WWW publication of preprints

SITE AND ACCOMMODATIONS

        Country Inn - $38-43/single room
        4345 El Camino Real
        415-948-9154

        El Camino Real Lodge - $36.25/single room
        2700 W. El Camino
        415-948-8982

        San Antonio Inn - $44/single room
        2650 El Camino W.
        415-948-1036

        Palo Alto Super 8 - $55/single room
        3200 El Camino (1 1/2 miles from Rickeys)
        415-493-9085

        Dinah's Garden Hotel - 3 Star $90 Up
        4261 El Camino Real
        415-493-2844
        1-800-227-2844

        Creekside Inn Best Western
        3400 El Camino Real
        415-493-2411

Conference sessions were held at the Hyatt Hotel in Palo Alto.

Hyatt Hotel
4219 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306
(415) 493-8000 tel
(415) 858-1151 fax

TRANSPORTATION

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