Monday, August 28, 2006 |
9.00 - 9.50 |
Nonlinearity: The Key to Creating and Detecting Mechanical Quanta
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Andrew Cleland, UC Santa Barbara |
9.50 - 10.40 |
The Duffing Nonlinearity in Nanomechanical Systems
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Sequoyah Aldridge, Caltech |
11.10 - 12.00 |
Metastability and Structural Dynamics of Metal Nanowires
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Jérome Bürki, University of Arizona, Tucson |
12.00 - 12.50 |
Nonlinear Response of Driven Nanoscale Conductors
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Sigmund Kohler, University of Augsburg |
14.20 - 15.10 |
Dynamics of Nonlinear Coupled Nanomechanical Resonators
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Ron Lifshitz, Tel Aviv University |
15.10 - 16.00 |
Bonds that Strengthen under Force
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Viola Vogel, ETH Zürich |
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
9.00 - 9.50 |
Excited-State Dynamics in Carbon Nanostructures
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David Tománek, Michigan State University, East Lansing |
Arvind Raman, Purdue University, West Lafayette |
9.50 - 10.40 |
The Stochastic Dynamics of Arrays of Micro and Nanoscale Cantilevers in a Viscous Fluid - Fluctuations from Dissipation
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Mark Paul, Virginia Tech |
11.10 - 12.00 |
The Fluctuation and NonEquilibrium Free Energy Theorems - Theory and Experiment
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Denis Evans, The Australian National University, Canberra |
12.00 - 12.50 |
Nonequilibrium Nanosystems
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Pierre Gaspard, Universite Libre de Bruxelles |
14.20 - 15.10 |
Ultrasensitive Magnetic Resonance Detection with Micromechanical Cantilevers
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Chris Hammel, Ohio State University, Columbus |
15.10 - 16.00 |
High-Frequency Dynamics and Phase Locking in Spin Transfer Nano-Oscillators
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Steve Russek, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder |
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
9.00 - 9.50 |
Nanoscale Fluid Dynamics
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David Erickson, Cornell University |
9.50 - 10.40 |
Nonlinear Dynamics of Electromigration-Driven Crystal Steps
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Joachim Krug, University of Cologne |
11.10 - 12.00 |
Casimir Forces and Geometry of Nanomechanical Systems
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Thorsten Emig, Universite Paris Sud |
12.00 - 12.50 |
Pattern Formation and Control at the Nano-Scale
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Eckehard Schöll, Technical University of Berlin |
14.20 - 15.10 |
Nanoplasmonics: Generation and Control of Nanoscale Optical Fields
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Mark I. Stockman, Georgia State University, Atlanta |
15.10 - 16.00 |
Biomolecules as Nonlinear Oscillators: Life-Enabling Dynamics
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Igor Mezic, UC Santa Barbara |