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Fourth Annual Meeting

Thursday, October 28, 2004
California Institute of Technology
(Avery Center Library)

Harry Atwater, Director
(NSF MRSEC)

Program
7:30 - 8:30 am Check-in and Continental Breakfast
(Avery Center Courtyard)
   
8:30 - 9:30 am Opening Remarks and Overview
Harry Atwater, Director
   
9:30 - 10:30 am
Keynote Address
Virus-Based Genetic Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and Semiconducting Nanowires and Self-assembling Structures
Angela Belcher, MIT
   
10:30 - 11:30 am Poster Session
 
11:30 - 12:30 pm

Biological Synthesis and Assembly of Macromolecular Materials
(Interdisciplinary Research Group)
David Tirrell
, Project Leader

   
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch (Avery Center Courtyard)
   
1:30 - 2:30 pm

An Emerging Fundamental Picture of Metallic Glasses
(Interdisciplinary Research Group)
Bill Johnson, Project Leader

   
2:30 - 3:00 pm

Precise Polyolefins Through Single-site Catalysts
(Seed Project)
Julie Kornfield
, Project Leader

3:00 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 4:00 pm

Zintl Phases as Thermoelectric Materials
(Seed Project)
Sossina Haile
, Project Leader

   
4:00 - 4:45 pm

Educational Outreach
Bob de Groot, Education and Outreach Coordinator