Brown University Physics Department hosts the

Nanobiophysics in the 21st Century

Joint Fall Meeting of the New England Sections of the APS and the AAPT
October 29th and 30th 2010
Providence, Rhode Island
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Friday, October 29th

12:00 Noon              On site registration - Barus & Holley Lobby
1:00 p.m.                  Refreshments

                                 Plenary session I - BH - Room 166
1:30 p.m.                  Opening remarks

1:35 p.m.                  Patrick Doyle (MIT)
                                ``DNA Dynamics in Nanoconfinement and Electric Fields"

2:20 p.m.                 Mark Reed (Yale)
                                ``CMOS Nanowire Biosensor Systems"

3:05 p.m.                 Break

3:35 p.m.                 Don Donovan
                                ``Engaging High School Students in Research"

3:40 p.m.                 Rohit Karnik (MIT)
                                ``Analysis of Single Molecules and Particles by Active Control In Nanofluidic Devices"
       

4:25 p.m.                 End of Plenary Session I

5:00 - 6:00 p.m..      Poster session and Cash Bar- Faculty Club

6:00 p.m.                 Banquet - Faculty Club
                                Speaker Leon Cooper (Brown)
                                ``Does The Moon Exist Only When You Look At It?"

8:30 - 10:00 p.m.     Visit Ladd Observatory


Saturday, October 30th

7:00 - 7:50 a.m.       AAPT Executive Committee Meeting, (continental breakfast) - Room 537

8:00 a.m.                 On site registration with continential breakfast - BH Lobby

8:00 - 9:45 a.m.       APS and AAPT Contributed Sessions
  •                        APS contributed Session I (BH160)
  •                        APS contributed Session II (BH161)
  •                        AAPT contributed session I (BH163)
  •                        AAPT contributed session II (BH165)
9:45 a.m.                Break

                               Plenary Session II and closing remarks - BH - Room 166
10:00 a.m.              David Pritchard (MIT)
                               ``What are Students Learning and From What Activity?"

10:45 a.m.               Naomi Halas (Rice)
                                ``Opticallly-directed Nanobiomedicine:  Merging Nanotechnology with Light for Improved
                                Diagnostics and New Therapeutics"

11:30 a.m.               Peter  Nordlander (Rice)
                               ``Plasmonic Nanostructures:  Artificial Molecules"

12:30 p.m.              End of Plenary Session II

12:30 p.m.              Lunch

12:30 p.m.              NES-APS Executive Committee Meeting with lunch - Room 537

1:00 p.m.                NES-AAPT Workshops - BH - Room 166
  •                      Russ Harkey
                        ``Phenomenal Physics - A Guided Inquiry Curriculum for Conceptual Physics Instruction
                           at the High School and College Level"

  •                      Dave Pritchard, Carie Cardamone
                          ``Modeling Applied to Problem Solving Workshop" - an Adoptable Pedagogy

  •                       Karl M. Martini
                          ``Greenhouse Effect - the ``GAME"









Contact Information:  Mary Ann Rotondo, Conference Coordinator, Dept. of Physics, Brown University,
Box 1843, Providence, Rhode Island 02912  USA

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