September 18, 2008 6:00 PM—September 20, 2008 2:00 PM
Albuquerque
, New Mexico
Sandia National Laboratories/ University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL U.S. FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM
Chair: Julia M. Phillips, Director, Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories
Drug Delivery Systems
Organizers: William Grieco, PetroAlgae, and Efrosini Kokkoli, University of Minnesota
Methodolgies for Drug Delivery
Samir Mitragotri, University of California, Santa Barbara
Targeted Polymeric Nanotherapeutics
Jeffrey Hrkach, BIND Biosciences
Polymer Technology for Gene Therapy
Daniel Pack, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Traceable Drug Delivery: Lighting the Way with QDots
Xiaohu Gao, University of Washington
Emerging Nanoelectronic Devices
Organizers: Jia Chen, IBM, and Victor Zhirnov, Semiconductor Research Corporation
The Quest for the Next Information Processing Technology
Jeff Welser, IBM and SRC Nanoelectronics Research Initiative
Molecular and Polymer Nanodevices
Nikolai Zhitenev, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Roll Printing of Nanowires for Integrated Device and Sensor Arrays
Ali Javey, University of California, Berkeley
Role of DNA in Nanoarchitectonics and Future Prospects
Mihri Ozkan, University of California, Riverside
Cognitive Engineering
Organizers: Barrett Caldwell, Purdue University, and Kim Vicente, University of Toronto
Cognitive Engineering: It's Not What You Think
Stephanie Guerlain, University of Virginia
Driving Attention: Cognitive Engineering in Designing Attractions and Distractions
John Lee, University of Iowa
Human Reliability Analysis in Cognitive Engineering and System Design
Ronald Boring, Sandia National Labs
Cognitive Engineering Applications in Health Care
Ann Bisantz, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Understanding and Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Organizers: Scott Goldstein, SAIC, and Greg Hebner, Sandia National Labs
U.S. National Security in New Times
Steven Nixon, (formerly) Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction: Translating Strategic Guidance into Actionable Solutions
Charles Beames, USSTRATCOM Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century: The Role of Science and Engineering
Joseph Martz, Los Alamos National Lab