NSF QMHP WORKSHOP PROGRAM

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MONDAY 16 APRIL 2007


SESSION I    (Chair: Gerhard Klimeck)

8:00AM COFFEE AND PASTRIES

8:00AM    OPENING REMARKS

Usha Varshney
Division Director
Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS)
Directorate for Engineering, NSF

Jonathan Dowling [PDF]
Gerhard Klimek [PDF]

8:20AM    Avik Gosh (U. Virginia)    "Fundamental Issues in Nanoelectronic Modeling and Simulation" [PDF]

8:40AM    Kang Wang (UCLA)    "Modeling Needs for Nanoarchitectonics and Nanosystems" [PDF]

9:00AM    Dragica Vasileska (ASU)    "Process Variation and RF Performance Analysis in 10nm FinFET Using Contact Block Reduction Method" [PDF]

9:20AM    Yuli Lyanda-Geller (Purdue)    "Controlling Dissipation and Decoherence in Nanodevices" [PDF]

9:40AM    Susan Coppersmith (U. Wisconsin)    "Experiment, Simulation, and Theory for Developing High-Performance Quantum and Molecular Devices and Systems" [PDF]
 
10:AM COFFEE
 
SESSION II     (Chair: Gerhard Klimeck)

10:20AM     Dmitri Nikonov   "Directions for Simulation of Beyond-CMOS Logic" [PDF]

10:40AM     Jerry Tersoff (IBM)   "Low-Frequency Noise in Nanoscale Ballistic Transistors" [PDF]

11:00AM     Mark van der Schilfgarde (Arizona State U.) "The Quasiparticle Self-Consistent GW Approximation" [PDF]

11:20AM    
Xuedong Hu (SUNY Buffalo)   "Coupled Electron-Nuclear Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanostructures" [PDF]

11:40AM    
Henry Everitt (AMCOM) "Quantum Information Science, as presented to the National Academy Decadal Study on AMO Physics" [PDF]

12:00N   LUNCH
 
SESSION III   (Chair: Jonathan Dowling)

1:20PM    Mikhail Lukin & Marko Loncar (Harvard)   "Exploring New Interfaces Between Quantum Optics and Nanoscience" [PDF]

1:40PM    Marian Florescu (JPL)   "Quantum Nonlinear Effects in Photonic Crystals: Applications to Information Processing and Thermal Radiation Management" [PDF]

2:00PM    Ting Shan Luk (Sandia)   "Photonic Crystal Program at Sandia National Laboratories" [PDF]

2:20PM    Lu Sham (UCSD)   "What Can be Done About the Decoherence of a Quantum System?" [PDF]

2:40PM    Eli Yablonovitch (UCLA)   "
The Application of New Algorithms to Solve Inverse Problems in Engineering" [PDF]
 
3:00PM COFFEE

SESSION IV   (Chair: Jonathan Dowling)

3:20PM   David Smith (Duke)   "Electromagnetic Cloaking" [PDF]

3:40PM  
Robert Trew (NCSU) "Thermal Emission in the Near-Field from Polar Semiconductors and the Prospects for Energy Conversion" [PDF]

4:00PM   Gary Brown (VA Tech) "
Electromagnetic Scattering from Large Amplitude, Small Period Surface Roughness" [PDF]

4:20PM   Tae-Woo Lee (LSU) "Computer Aided Approaches for Nanophotonics Research" [PDF]

4:40PM   Joseph Eberly (U. Rochester)   "First Steps and Results with Quantum Many-Body Math" [PDF]
 
5:00PM DISCUSSION & DAY 1 WRAP UP

5:30PM ADJORN

7:00PM WORKSHOP DINNER (Reservation for 20 under "Dowling")

Matsutake Sushi & Steak - Ballston
4121 Wilson Blvd
Arlington, VA
22203
Tel: (703) 351-8787


 
TUESDAY 17 APRIL 2007
 
8:00AM INTRO
 
8:20AM BREAKOUT SESSIONS I

A: Quantum Electronics (Chair: Gerhard Klimeck)

B: Quantum Photonics (Chair: Jonathan Dowling)
 
10:00AM COFFEE
 
10:20AM BREAKOUT SESSIONS II

A: Quantum Electronics (Chair: Gerhard Klimeck)

B: Quantum Photonics (Chair: Jonathan Dowling)
 
12:00PM LUNCH

1:30PM SUMMARY OF QE BREAKOUT SESSIONS TO ALL ATTENDEES (Klimeck)

2:15PM SUMMARY OF QP BREAKOUT SESSIONS TO ALL ATTENDEES (Dowling)

3:00PM COFFEE
 
PANEL  DISCUSSIONS

3:30PM PANEL DISCUSSION I — QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(Chair: Gerhard Klimeck)
Panel Members: Kang Wang, Dragica Vasileka, Dmitri Nikonov, Susan Coppersmith

4:15PM PANEL DISCUSSION II — QUANTUM PHOTONICS
(Chair: Jonathan Dowling)
Panel Members: Joseph Eberly, Marko Loncar, Lu Sham, David Smith, Robert Trew

5:00PM FINAL WRAP UP
 
5:30PM ADJORN