Program                      

January 30, 2008

66 Auditorium                                 

          

Time Topic Speaker

8:30 am Registration, Networking & Continental Breakfast

          

Entrepreneurship

9:00 - 9:45 am Evaluating Technology Through the Lens of a Venture Capitalist [pdf] Marc van den Berg
Partner, Vantage Point Venture Partners

Roles an Inventor Can Play in a Start-up Company to Provide What’s Valued and Needed [pdf] Christophe Sevrain
CEO, CJPS Enterprises;
Former Director, Delphi Medical

          

The Future of Materials Sciences at Berkeley Lab: CleanTech, Nanomaterials and
Devices, and NanoBio

9:45 - 11:15 am Non-Obvious Technologies that Would Shift the Energy Equation Steven Chu
Lawrence Berkeley Lab Director

Materials Sciences Research Directions and the Helios Project: Highlights for the Venture Capital Community Paul Alivisatos
Materials Sciences Director

The Molecular Foundry – A Catalyst for Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Research [pdf] Carolyn Bertozzi
Molecular Foundry Director

          

Technologies and Future Directions

11:15 - 12:00 pm Construction of Novel Photosynthetic Organisms [pdf] Jan Liphardt
Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division

Nano Device “Firsts” for Electronics, Sensing, and Communications Applications [pdf] Alex Zettl
Scientist, Materials Sciences Division

12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch - Networking & Posters
Molecular Foundry Tour 		Building 67, 3rd floor

          

How to Work with Berkeley Lab

1:35 - 2:00 pm How We Work with Start-ups and VC's Cheryl Fragiadakis
Head, Technology Transfer Department

          

Future Directions: Molecular Foundry Investigators

2:00 - 2:45 pm Nanoparticle-based Drug Delivery Vehicles [pdf] Ron Zuckerman
Scientist, Molecular Foundry

Smart Nanoparticles for Biology [pdf] Bruce Cohen
Scientist, Molecular Foundry

Tag-less High Specificity Imaging [pdf] Jim Schuck
Scientist, Molecular Foundry

          

Technologies and Future Directions - Energy

3:00 - 4:00 pm The Future of Energy Efficiency Research at
Berkeley Lab [pdf] 		Arun Majumdar
Environmental Energy Technologies Director

Novel Structures for Energy Conversion
and Storage [pdf] 		Rachel Segalman
Scientist, Materials Sciences Division

Group III-nitrides and highly mismatched alloys for
Efficient Solar & Photoelectrochemical Cells [pdf] 		Kin-Man Yu
Scientist, Materials Sciences Division

Energy Efficient Computing [pdf] Horst Simon
Computing Sciences Director

          

Technologies and Future Directions - Medical Applications

4:00 - 4:40 pm Atomic Magnetonomy & applications to NMR/MRI [pdf] Alex Pines/Dmitry Budker
Scientist, Materials Sciences Division

New Materials for Bone Replacement and Tissue Engineering Antoni Tomsia
Scientist, Materials Sciences Division

4:40 - 6:00 pm Reception, Posters, Networking;
Molecular Foundry Tours 		Bldg. 67, 3rd floor

6:00 pm Depart for No-Host Dinner Adagia's Restaurant

                                

Thanks to Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC) for their support of this meeting.