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Foundation
Operations Have Been Scaled Back
NFT
was founded to be a short term research accelerator.
Nanotechnology is creeping into every natural science.
Richard Smalley, Nobel Laureate and former NFT Board of Champions
member, often said that nanotechnology represented the maturing
of the natural sciences. We are seeing that now.
Years from now, people will not talk about nanotechnology
as if it were a separate science. Rather , we will see
nanotechnology enabling new discoveries in biology, chemistry,
physics and many applied technologies without any reference
to "nano". Now that nanotechnology is maturing we can
turn our activities over to others.
Examples of significant
other initiatives include: 1) The SPRING consortium
of Texas universities that have raised over $20 million federal
dollars to support nanotechnology research. This group
has raised many millions of new dollars to support research
efforts in Austin, Dallas and Houston. 2) The establishment
of the Alliance for NanoHealth, another consortium of Texas
universities addressing the life science opportunities of
nanotechnology. It has resulted in over $20 million
dollars being awarded to Houston-based Texas researchers totaling
several million dollars. 3) The establishment of the
Emerging Technologies Fund by the state. This fund has
been very supportive in the commercialization of nanotechnology
and other research-based commercialization efforts in Texas;
with $300 million in commercialization and research funds.
4) The transition of the Nano Summit to Texas A&M
University which will continue highlighting the research side
of nanotechnology.
Many other initiatives
have been launched and other activities have taken place,
but these are the most significant. Our past activities
included:
2007
Nano Summit Research Conference -- August 7-8, 2007
The 2007 Nano Summit
is planned for August 7 and 8 in College Station. The
Foundation and Texas A&M University will hold this meeting
at the Bush Presidential Library on the campus.
The focus of this
conference will be on promising young researchers -- those
future leaders that are doing exciting research but who are
just starting their great research career.
Details will be
forthcoming.
Details of past
Nano Summits can be found below. No conference was held
in 2006.
Nano
Summit Research Conference -- July 28, 2005
 The
Nano Summit Research Conference provides a forum for medical,
natural science and engineering researchers and students in
Texas to meet each other and exchange information on areas
of expertise. The conference informs the research community
in each major institution about major research activities
in the respective institutions that are related to nanoscience
or which might benefit from a nanoscience perspective.
The conference is also useful to corporate R&D persons
who need to understand what research is being done in Texas
on basic nanotechnology research including material science,
life sciences energy and electronic/semiconductor applications.
The 2005 Nano Summit
was held July 28 at the Hornberger
Conference Center in the Texas Medical Center. The
event featured 17 exciting speakers and a poster session.
Dr.
James Heath, Caltech,
was the Keynote Speaker, speaking on nanosystems biology
(see February issue of MIT Technology Review for
information on nanosystems biology and Dr. Heath's research).
Dr Ferid Murad, Nobel Laureate with the University
of Texas Health Sciences Center spoke after lunch on cell
signaling. Other speakers included:
- Naomi
Halas and James Tour of Rice University
;
- Susan
Daniels, Jun Kameoka and Kenith Meissner
of Texas A&M University ;
- Ray
Baughman of UT Dallas;
- Mauro
Ferrari of Ohio State University;
- Dmitry
Rudkevich from UT Arlington;
- Sanjay
Banerjee and Andrew Ellington
of The University of Texas at Austin;
- Kurt
Krause and Pradeep Sharma of the
University of Houston;
- Mary Jane Cunningham of the Houston Advanced
Research Center; and
- Joseph
Stroscio from the National Institute of Standards
and Technology
The
two recipients of the George Kozmetsky Outstanding Nanotechnology
Graduate Student Award also spoke.
Conference
abstracts and agenda are available.
Selected speaker presentations
at the 2005 Nano Summit can be heard on our media server.
2004
Speakers
Speaker presentations
at the2004 Nano Summit can be heard on our media server.
The 2004 Nano Summit was held July 29, 2004 at the Hornberger
Conference Center in the Texas Medical Center. Dr.
Andreas Hirsch, of the Institute for Organic Chemistry
at the University
of Erlangen-Nürnberg, was the Keynote Speaker.
Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley referred to Dr. Hirsch as "the
best Fullerene chemist in the world." The event
featured 17 lead investigators from Texas institutions followed
by a poster session. " Dr. Paul C. W. Chu
on leave from the University of Houston as Professor of Physics
and the President of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
presented "Creating a Smart Fluid from Nano-Particles"
as the first speaker in the afternoon.
Other speakers were:
- Andrew Barron, Rebekah Drezek, Michael Wong,
and Yuhuang Wang of Rice University;
- Samuel Ward Casscells from the University
of Texas Health Science Center of Houston;
- Ananth Dodabalapur, Wolfgang Frey, Brian Korgel
and Tobias Hanrath of The University of Texas at
Austin;
- Mauli Agrawal and Steven Bailey of the
University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio;
- Louis C. Brousseau, III of Quantum Logic
Devices;
- T. Randall Lee of the University of Houston;
- Meng Tao of The University of Texas at
Arlington; and
- Leonard Yowell of NASA Johnson Space
Center
This presentations
will be hosted on our web site by the end of August for the
benefit of people who could not attend.
A
speaker and poster program for the 2004 Nano Summit is
available as a download (requires Acrobat 5.0 or later).
The 2004 Nano Summit was co-hosted by Rice University (both
the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the Rice
Alliance), Greater Houston Partnership, Greater Dallas Chamber
of Commerce, Bio Houston, Houston Technology Center, Austin-San
Antonio Corridor, University of Texas IC2, Texas Healthcare
and Biosciences Institute and the Pearland Economic Development
Office.
2003 Speakers
At the 2003 Nano Summit, Richard Smalley, Nobel Laureate and
co-discoverer of C60, was the kick off speaker
presenting nanotechnology as a potential solution to the world's
energy challenges. Other speakers included:
Christopher
Banas of Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces,
Susan
Hardin of VisiGen Technology,
S.V. Sreenivasan
of Molecular Imprints all from nanotechnology startup companies;
Michael Barry and James Versalovic of Baylor
College of Medicine; Ray Baughman from
University of Texas at Dallas;
Paul Cherukuri from the University of Texas
at Houston; Victor Hadjiev, Alex Ignatiev, Peter
G. Vekilov and Dmitri Litvinov from The University
of Houston;
David Corey of The University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center;
Dennis Deppe of The University of Texas
at Austin;
Jeffrey D. Hartgerink, Paul Labinus, John Margrave,
Antonios Mikos of Rice University;
Jason Stafford and Michael Rosenblum of
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center;
James F. Leary of The University of Texas
Medical Branch;
Fred MacDonnell of The University of Texas
at Arlington;
Latika Menon of Texas Tech University;
and
Stephen T. Wellingjhoff of Southwest Research
Institute
Conference Abstracts
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the 2005 conference presentations
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View the 2003 conference presentations
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Click on "Index" to see a list of speakers and an
abstract of their talk.)
The following abstracts are available (requires Acrobat 6.0
or later):
> 2005
Nano Summit Program (14 Pages)
> 2004
Nano Summit Program (10 Pages)
> 2003
Nano Summit Program (6 Pages)
> 2002
Nano Summit Agenda (7 Pages)
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