The Nanotechnology Institute » Events

The NTI 2011 Annual Report is Now On-Line!

JHeritage — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:35:51 +0000

The NTI 2011 Annual Report is available for download. Please click here to download: NTI 2011 Annual Report

University Startups Conference 2012, January 18-20, 2012

JHeritage — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:31:30 +0000

6th Annual

University Startups Conference 2012

“University Startups Produce High-Value Jobs and Serious Social Impact”

An International Conference
January 18-20, 2012
Washington Convention Center
Washington, D.C.

A unique annual must-attend conference with about 400 attendees, specifically for universities serious about university startups and research commercialization. Hear from high-level colleagues about what they are doing at their universities. Meet investors interested in early stage university startups. Talk to government officials who fund both basic research and it’s commercialization.

In this competitive jobs environment you need to know about cutting-edge innovation models that will make you stand out in your community. “Old think” is challenged like never before. Stay current by attending this year’s University Startup Conference.
You can register for the University Startups Conference at http://www.ncet2.org/UpcomingEvents/UnivStartupConf12/Register.

CURRENT AGENDA

________________________________

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18, 2012
________________________________

1:00-6:30pm	Presidents-Investors Summit (by invitation) To know more about the Summit, click here
6:30-8:00pm	Opening Reception at the Washington Convention Center

________________________________

THURSDAY JANUARY 19, 2012
________________________________

7:30-8:15 am	Registration/Breakfast

8:15-8:30 am

Opening and Welcome from the Conference Committee

Ali Andalibi (Program Director, SBIR/STTR and Head, Therapeutics and Diagnostics Section in the National Cancer Institute’s SBIR Development Center, National Institutes of Health – NIH)
Steve Ferguson (Deputy Director, Licensing & Entrepreneurship, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health – NIH)
Juan Figueroa (Senior SBIR Electronics, Components and Engineering Systems Program Manager, Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, National Science Foundation-NSF)
Clara Asmail (Sr. Technical Advisor, NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership, formerly SBIR Program Manager, National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Frank Barros (SBIR Program Analyst, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security)
Christine Villa (Chief Technology Officer, BRTRC, Inc., Principal Consultant, Department of Defense SBIR/STTR Programs)
Brian Darmody (Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development, and Special Assistant Vice Chancellor for Technology Development, University System of Maryland)
Barry Rosenbaum (Senior Fellow, University of Akron Research Foundation)
Julie Goonewardene (Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The University of Kansas; President KU Center for Technology Commercialization)
Tony Stanco (Executive Director, National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer)

8:30-9:15 am

SBIR Program Manager Panel

John Williams (Director, Navy SBIR/STTR Programs, Office of Naval Research)
Michael John Smith (Program Manager, Army SBIR, U.S. Department of Defense-DoD)
Shawn Patterson (Program Manager, SBIR United States Strategic Operation Commands)
Lenka Fedorkova (Assistant Program Manager, SBIR/STTR Office, National Institutes of Health-NIH)
Ruth Shuman (Program Director, SBIR/STTR, Biology and Chemical Technologies Cluster, National Science Foundation-NSF)
Juan Figueroa (Senior SBIR Electronics, Components and Engineering Systems Program Manager, Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, National Science Foundation-NSF)
Manny Oliver (Director SBIR/STTR Programs Office, Department of Energy)

9:15-10:00 am

University Panel: University Venture Funding

Donald Rose (Director, Carolina KickStart, NC TraCS Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Bryan Allinson (Executive Director, University of Texas Horizon Fund, University of Texas System)
Richard (Erik) Gordon (Managing Director, Wolverine Venture Fund, University of Michigan)
Frank Rimalovski (Managing Director, NYU Innovation Venture Fund)
Michael Rusnak (Deputy Director of New Ventures & Technology Development, University of Rochester)
Lynn Gellermann (Executive Director, TechGROWTH Fund, Ohio University)

10:00-10:30 am	Break

10:30-11:15 am

University Panel: Coulter Translational Research Partnership’s Recipe for Success-Leveraging Your Ecosystem

Davood Tashayyod (Coulter Project Director, School of Biomediacl Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University)
Melda Uzbil (Assistant Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Duke University)
David Chen (Coulter Project Director, University of Virginia)
Youseph Yazdi (Executive Director, Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID), Johns Hopkins University)
Donna See (Director, Strategic Initiatives, Columbia Technology Ventures)

11:15-11:45 am

University Panel

Goldie Blumenstyk (Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Julie Goonewardene (Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The University of Kansas; President KU Center for Technology Commercialization)
Brian Darmody (Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development, and Special Assistant Vice Chancellor for Technology Development, University System of Maryland)
Barry Rosenbaum (Senior Fellow, University of Akron Research Foundation)
John Fraser (Assistant Vice President for Research & Economic Development, Executive Director, IP Development & Commercialization, The Florida State University)
Ashley Stevens (President, Focus IP Group; Lecturer, School of Management, Boston University and Immediate Past President, AUTM)
Tony Stanco (Executive Director, National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer)

11:45-12:00 pm	Keynote: Stephen Merrill (Executive Director, Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, The National Academies)

12:00-1:00 pm	Lunch

1:00-1:15 pm	University Co-Host Keynote: Dr. Luis M. Proenza (President, University of Akron)

1:15-1:30 pm	University Co-Host Keynote: Dr. Bernadette Gray-Little (Chancellor, University of Kansas)

1:30-1:45 pm	Keynote: Matthew Portnoy (NIH SBIR/STTR Program Coordinator and Director, Division of Special Programs, Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health)

1:45-2:00 pm	Keynote: Kesh Narayanan (Director, Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, National Science Foundation)

2:00-2:15 pm	Keynote: Christopher Rinaldi (Program Administrator, SBIR/STTR, U.S. Department of Defense-DoD)

2:15-3:00 pm

New Innovation Corps (i-Corps) Program at NSF Panel

Errol Arkilic (Program Manager, National Science Foundation)
Rathindra (Babu) DasGupta (Program Director, National Science Foundation)
James Chung (Director, Office of Entrepreneurship, George Washington University)
Nan Zhang (i-Corps Awardee, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, George Washington University)
Sundaresan Rajasekaran (i-Corps Awardee, Doctoral Candidate, Computer Science Department)

3:00-3:45 pm	Break

3:45-4:15 pm

NSF SBIR/STTR Innovation Accelerator Panel

Murali Nair (Program Director, National Science Foundation)
Babs Carryer (Adjunct Prof, Entrepreneurship, Embedded Entrepreneur, Project Olympus; Innovation Advisor, Institute for Social Innovation; Carnegie Mellon University)
Randy Eager (Chief Executive Officer, ATRP Solutions)

4:15-4:30 pm	Keynote: Jodi Black (Deputy Director, Division of Extramural Research Activities, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health-NIH)

4:30-4:45 pm	Keynote: Robin Rasor (Director of Licensing, University of Michigan; President, Association of University Technology Managers-AUTM)

4:45-5:30 pm

i6 Program Panel

Paul Corson (Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, U.S. Department of Commerce)
Four Select i6 and i6 Green Award Recepients

5:30 pm	Dinner (on your own)

____________________________

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012
____________________________

7:30-8:30 am	Registration/Breakfast

8:30-8:45 am	University Co-Host Keynote: Dr. Patrick O’Shea (Vice President for Research, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland)

8:45-9:00 am

The Maryland Proof of Concept Alliance, A Commercialization Partnership Between the University of Maryland and Army Research Lab

Jacques Gansler (Professor and Roger C. Lipitz Chair; Director, Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise; School of Public Policy, University of Maryland)

9:00-9:45 am

PTO Panel: Navigating the Intellectual Property System: Perspectives from Inside the US Government

Azam Khan (Deputy Chief of Staff, United States Patent and Trademark Office)
Joseph Hennessy (Senior Advisor, SBIR, National Science Foundation – NSF)
John Calvert (Administrator, Inventor Assistance Program, United States Patent and Trademark Office – USPTO)

9:45-10:00 am	Keynote: Mark Heesen (President, National Venture Capital Association-NVCA)

10:00-11:00 am

NVCA VC Panel: Turning Breakthrough Technologies into Pioneering Startups: Venture Capitalists’ Perspectives

Jon Karlen (General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners)
Jeff Fagnan (Partner, Atlas Venture)
Tom Grossi (Principal, New Enterprise Associates)
David Wells (Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)
Marc Singer (Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Osage University Partners)
Stan Reiss (General Partner, Matrix Partners)

11:00-11:15 am	Break

11:15-11:30 am	Keynote: Jim Jaffe (President, National Association of Seed and Venture Funds-NASVF)

11:30-12:15 pm

NASVF VC Panel: Commercializing Technologies – From Tech Transfer to the Boardroom

Richard Miller (Vice President of Marketing, Editor of NetNews, National Association of Seed and Venture Funds)
Greg Horowitt (Founding Partner & Managing Director, T2 Venture Capital)
Suzette Dutch (Managing Partner, Triathlon Medical Ventures)
Steve Mercil (President and CEO, Rain Source Capital; Chair, NASVF)
Richard Gajan (Entrepreneurial Consultant)
Karen Kerr (Senior Director of New Ventures & Alliances, USC Stevens Institute for Innovation)

12:15-1:30 pm	Lunch

1:30-1:45 pm	Keynote: Marianne Hudson (Executive Director, Angel Capital Association-ACA)

1:45-2:15 pm

Angel Investor Panel

Frank Barros (SBIR Program Analyst, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security-DHS)
James Hunt (Partner, Mita Group)
Valerie Gaydos (Founder and President, Capital Growth, Inc.)
John May (Managing Partner, New Vantage Group)
Katherine O’Neill (Executive Director, Jumpstart NJ Angel Network)
Stephen F. Flaim (Chairman of the Board, Tech Coast Angels)

2:15-2:30 pm

Keynote: Tony Boccanfuso (Executive Director, National Academies’ University-Industry Demonstration Partnership)

Keynote: Robert Kehlet (Chief, Collaboration and Transition Division, Basic and Applied Sciences Directorate/ Research and Development Enterprise, Defense Threat Reduction Agency – DTRA)

2:30-3:15 pm

UIDP-Global 1000 Panel

Puneet Verma (Manager, Biofuels & Hydrogen, Chevron Technology Ventures)
David Russell (Director of Prospecting, Biotechnology Prospecting Team, Monsanto)
Michelle Spatara (Manager, Emerging Technology, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.)
Richard Jacubinas (Manager, Public Funding and University Relations, BASF)
Charles Johnson-Bey (Open Innovation Program Manager, Corporate Engineering and Technology, Lockheed Martin)

3:15-4:00 pm

UIDP-Global 1000 Panel

Drew Bond (Vice President for Public Policy, Battelle)
Nick Nikolaides (Section Head, Global Business Development, The Procter & Gamble Company)
Kristian Tage Hansen (Senior Director, The Novo Nordisk Diabetes Innovation Award Program, Novo Nordisk R&D)
Eric Apse (Partner, IBM Venture Capital Group ISV & Developer Relations)
Ray Schuder (Managing Director, AMD Fusion Fund and Fusion Centers of Innovation )

4:00-4:45 pm

AutoHarvest Foundation Panel: Accelerating the adoption of innovation in advanced manufacturing via a novel e-collaboration marketplace in beta testing

Jayson D. Pankin (President and CEO, AutoHarvest Foundation)
William Coughlin (President and CEO, Ford Global Technologies, Inc.)
Steven Vander Louw (Global Technical Director, 3M Automotive, 3M Corp)
Tim Yerdon (Global Director Innovation and Design, Visteon Corporation)
David Cole (Chairman, AutoHarvest and Emeritus Chairman, Center of Automotive Research- Ann Arbor)
Leslie Smith (President and CEO, TechTown Incubator, Detroit, Michigan)
Val Livada (Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

5:00 pm	Conference ends

Nano/Bio Interface Center Symposium: Local Probes at the Frontiers of Energy Systems and Biotechnology

JHeritage — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:20:37 +0000

October 26 & 27, 2010

Don Eigler
The Small Frontier

Since the early days of scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy, a large family of probes have been developed that access properties with ever increasing complexity and relevance. This symposium will highlight recent advances that forward fundamental underpinning of critical interactions in energy systems and molecular and cellular biology with contributions from the foremost leaders in the field

Please click here to download a PDF of the flyer.

The Cutting Edge Innovations In Nanotechnology

JHeritage — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:46:24 +0000

The New Castle County Economic Development Council & Technology Forum of Delaware invite you to attend!

2011 PA Regional Nanotechnology Conference

JHeritage — Thu, 05 May 2011 14:42:22 +0000

On behalf of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (DNI), Lehigh Nanotech Network (LNN), and Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP-SEP), the Pennsylvania Regional Nanotechnology Conference is scheduled to be held on May 31, 2011 in the Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center at Drexel University. The focus of this event will be on strengthening and developing partnerships between university and industrial collaborators in the ever-growing field of nanotechnology.

The event agenda, including directions, registration information, sponsorship opportunities can be found on the DNI website – http://www.nano.drexel.edu

If you have any questions please contact Jill Buckley, the Business Coordinator for the Drexel Nanotechnology Institute at jmb368@drexel.edu

We hope to see you there!

Thank you

Nanotechnology: The Huge Challenge of Regulating Tiny Technologies

JHeritage — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:20:16 +0000

RTI International cordially invites you to attend…

Nanotechnology: The Huge Challenge of Regulating Tiny Technologies
Wednesday, May 4
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

In the coming years, nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize fields ranging from health care to manufacturing. As in many other rapidly evolving fields, however, federal regulation has been unable to keep pace with the rate of evolution regarding potential issues, such as environmental or human health impacts. At this policy forum, a diverse group of experts will discuss the issues, concerns and public policies needed to maximize the benefits of this emerging technology while minimizing the risks in order to encourage further development, scientific exploration, and responsible commercialization of this technology.

Speakers include:

Michele Ostraat, PhD
Senior Director, Center for Aerosol and Nanomaterials Engineering
RTI International

Sally Tinkle, PhD
Deputy Director
National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

Jim Alwood
Toxic Substances Control Act Nanotechnology Coordinator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Cole Matson, PhD
Executive Director
Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology at Duke University
Moderator

Jim Trainham, PhD
Vice President, Strategic Energy Initiatives
RTI International
The National Press Club
The Ballroom
529 14th Street N.W.
Washington, DC

(https://www.rti.org/registrations/registrations.cfm?regid=21) RSVP by May 2, 2011 or (http://www.rti.org/page.cfm?objectid=4F1E41AF-5056-B100-31FE7BB610DB5A3C) learn more about the event.

For information, contact Lisa Bistreich-Wolfe, 919.316.3596, lbistreich@rti.org.

Materials Under Extremes – Penn Center for Energy Innovation Annual Symposium, April 9th, 2011

JHeritage — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:31:15 +0000

Penn Center for Energy Innovation (Pennergy) is excited to announce it’s annual symposium April 9th, 2011! This Year “Materials Under Extremes” is our topic and we are excited to announce our guest speakers:

Tomas Diaz De La Rubia, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“An Alternative Approach to Sustainable, Low-Carbon Energy: Inertial Fusion Energy and its Materials Challenges”

Daniel S. Gianola, University of Pennsylvania
“Deformation at the Nanoscale: Pushing the Limits of Strength”

James S. Langer, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Statistical Themodynamics of Materials (Extremely?) Far from Equilibrium.”

Ju Li, University of Pennsylvania
“Extremely Small Batteries”

Ian Robertson, University of Illinois
“New approaches for understanding degradation mechanisms of metals exposed to extreme environments.”

Eric Stach, Brookhaven National Laboratory
“Utilization of aberration-corrected electron microscopy in catalysis research”

Suo Zhigang , Harvard
“Lithium-ion batteries—when mechanics meets chemistry”

Krystyn Van Vliet, MIT
“Chemomechanics of far-from-equilibrium interfaces (COFFEI) in electrochemical conversion & storage”

Steven J. Zinkle, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
“Materials Science for Nuclear Energy Applications”

Krishna P. Singh, Holtec International
Lecture: TBD

Check out our website for more information AND to register for this event!

Lehigh Universities Unique Surface Science Technologies

JHeritage — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:39:15 +0000

Lehigh University is unveiling to the academic and industrial research community two new technologies that will add significantly to national and regional nanoscale surface science and analysis capabilities.

The recently-installed ION-TOF Qtac 100 High Sensitivity-Low Energy Ion Scattering (HS-LEIS) (bottom right) provides users with unprecedented surface analysis technique — isolating and examining the very top or outer atomic layer, just 0.2 to 0.3 nm thick.

The Scienta ESCA 300 (top left), one of 11 in the world and the only one in the U.S., is among the most powerful instruments available for such research. With this instrument, Lehigh and visiting researchers can glean information about the top 10 atomic layers of a material.

Simply put, it’s technology that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the Western hemisphere.

To learn more about this exciting new nanoscale technology and some of its emerging applications, please register to attend the Symposium. If you cannot attend, please use the “Video Request” link to indicate that you’d like us to notify you when the video of the lectures becomes available.

Free Attendance | March 23, 2011 | 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Whitaker Auditorium 303

Click here for registration or to receive post-event video

Symposium Agenda

Attendance is FREE, however, please register by visiting the Symposium Web site.

Please also visit the site if you are unable to attend, but would like for us to
notify you when the Symposium video is available.

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Seminar

JHeritage — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:40:24 +0000

“How new disk drive technologies are pushing the nanoscale limits of materials and mechanics”

University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, February 1
Wu & Chen Auditorium
10:45 AM
Coffee will be served starting at 10:30 AM in Levine Lobby, 2nd floor

Mathew Mate
Hitachi San Jose Research Center, San Jose, CA

Abstract:
Over the next five to ten years, the disk drive industry plans to incorporate two radically new technologies—thermally assisted recording (TAR) and bit patterned media (BPM)—that will greatly increase the storage capacity of a typical disk drive. Inherent with these new recording technologies, however, are high concentrations of mechanical, thermal, and tribological stresses, that are pushing the limits of our ability to design materials and nano-structures that tolerate these stresses. In this talk, I will describe the TAR and BPM technologies currently being developed by Hitachi GST and other companies, along with some of the technologies being developed to understand and ameliorate the high mechanical, thermal, and tribological stresses that occur within the nanostructures needed to implement TAR and BPM.

NOVA: Making Stuff Screening and Discussion

JHeritage — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:52:45 +0000

Join WHYY and the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania for a screening of the second episode of the exciting new NOVA series MAKING STUFF, Wednesday, January 26.

Hosted by The New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, MAKING STUFF is a groundbreaking series that focuses on the personal qualities that underlie the process of invention — the visionary talent, sheer luck and dogged determination that turn a wild idea into a cutting-edge material.

Following the episode 2 screening, a panel of Drexel and UPenn Materials Scientists will discuss the field and its’ influence on society.

Panelists for the discussion include Dr. Mitra Taheri, Hoeganaes Assistant Professor of Metallurgy, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University; Dr. Yury Gogotsi, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University; Dr. Robert Carpick, Dr. Robert Carpick, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, and Penn Director of the Nanotechnology Institute; and Dr. Daniel Gianola, Skirkanich Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.

Watch a preview of the MAKING STUFF series HERE.

EVENT INFORMATION:
NOVA: Making Stuff Screening/Discussion
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
WHYY – 150 N. Sixth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Parking/Directions

Reserve Tickets