July 5: Welcome Orientation
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| July 6 10:00 - 12:00 | July 7 9:00 - 10:35 | July 8 10:00 - 12:00 | July 9 9:00 - 10:35 | July 10 9:00 - 10:35 |
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E2/215 Introduction to Cluster 2 culture. Introduction slides
HW by 7/7: Rustlike Crystals Found to Cleanse Water of Arsenic Cheaply. What are nanoscience and nanotechnologies? |
E2/215 What is nanotechnology? Why do we use it? Where does it come from? How does it work? How does it change? How does it change us? How do we change it? What are it's costs and benefits? How do we evaluate it? ICE-9 slides
HW by 7/8: Electron Turbine Could Print Designer Molecules and Marine sponge yields nanoscale secrets and Herculean Device for Molecular Mysteries |
E2/215 [Bonus: Discovery Lecture on nanotechnology, including where thinking about T2 leads Miguel]
Brainstorm on how to create a T2 "liquid metal" Terminator robot. Terminator 2 slides
HW by 7/9: There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom |
E2/215 Continue ICE-9 presentation.
HW by 7/10: The Quest for Nanotechnology and Studying Nanotechnology
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E2/215
Nano-hunt, NanoEngineer-1 (advanced tool for the design, simulation and
analysis of atomically precise molecular machine systems)
HW
by 7/13:
Molecular Engineering: An Approach to the Development of General Capabilities for Molecular
Manipulation |
| July 13 10:00 - 12:00 | July 14 9:00 - 10:35 | July 15 10:00 - 12:00 | July 16 9:00 - 10:35 | July 17 9:00 - 4:00 |
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E2/215 Crystals, poly-crystals, and amorphous. Insulators and metals
HW by 7/14: Strong Inference |
E2/215 Mark Akeson will lecture on polymerases and ribosomes.
HW by 7/15: Characterization of Nucleic Acids by Nanopore Analysis |
E2/215 Daniel Garalde will lecture on nanopores and take us on a lab tour.
HW: none |
E2/215 Robert Cormia lecture on
synthetic biology
HW by 7/20: |
Fieldtrip
Meet 9:00 AM @ R3 Quad for fieldtrip to Hewlett Packard, Atomic Force Microscope. schedule
Online HW: Model Small Bearing. Simulate Small Bearing. Complete design and assembly of Mark III K planet gear over the next week. |
| July 20 10:00 - 12:00 | July 21 9:00 - 10:35 | July 22 10:00 - 12:00 | July 23 9:00 - 12:00 | July 24 9:00 - 4:00 |
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E2/215 Nano-scale devices and nano-materials: dimensionality and peculiar physics.
HW by 7/21: The Little Big Down: A Small Introduction to Nano-scale Technologies |
E2/215 Fabrication techniques: film deposition, epitaxial growth, lithography, nanoimprint- and 3D-lithography
HW by 7/23: Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations
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PSB/305 Kevin Karplus will lecture on protein structure prediction. Play Fold.It video game.
HW by 7/27: Why The Future Does Not Need Us Online HW optional: Watch Bert Vogelstein videos |
E2/215 Continue finishing ICE-9 presentation. If time allows, discuss Maya Blue, the 1200 year old nanotechnology from meso-America.
Online HW: Model Strained Sleeve Bearing. Start Nanogear Project. Creating an Animated GIF of the Small Bearing over the next (and last) week. |
Fieldtrip
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| July 27 10:00 - 12:00 | July 28 9:00 - 12:00 | July 29 10:00 - 12:00 | July 30 9:00 - 10:35 | July 31 9:00 - 4:00 |
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E2/215 Interaction and friction in small systems. Electronics: silicon MOSFETs, ultra-high speed transistors, emerging logic devices, carbon-based electronics
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E2/215 Space Elevator and nanostructures. What if an iPod Nano really were?
E2/180 Ali Shakouri will lecture on renewable energy sources and the potential of nanotechnology
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PSB/353 Kim White will give us a tour of the Marine Natural Products Research Lab, which explores macro and microorganisms from nature for the production of natural products that have biological activity and could potentially be used as drugs or inspiration for drugs to fight various diseases, including solid tumor cancers.
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E2/215 Finish work on Final Presentation. Practice.
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Simularium E2/180, E2 runway Present Final Project |
| August 1: Closing Ceremonies (9:00 - 10:45 @ E2/215). | See detailed hour-by-hour schedule. This webpage can be found at http://www.clustertwo.org/schedule.htm |
