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2007 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award Symposium and Presentation to

Professor John Rogers,

University of Illinois at Urbana / Champaign

Thursday, Nov 15, 2007

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey


From the Chemistry of Nanoscale Materials to

the Engineering of Macroscale Devices

Meeting: The talks were held in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC) room 3740 and the social event, poster session and dinner will be in the Campus Center.

 

12:15 – 12:45

Registration

1:00 - 1:50 
Dr. Mark Cardillo, Executive Director of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Who Else is Interested in Chemistry?
2:00 - 2:50
Prof. Ralph G. Nuzzo, Lycan Professor of Chemistry,
University of, Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Plasmonic Crystal Sensors: Making Molecules Visible to the Naked Eye
3:00 - 3:25
Break / Posters
3:30 - 4:20
Prof. Keith A. Nelson, Professor of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Optical Control Over Condensed Matter [ abstract ]
4:30 - 5:20
Prof. George M. Whitesides,
Flowers University Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University
Microdevices for Biomedical Research

5:30 - 6:20

Social/Poster

6:30 - 7:30

Dinner and Presentation of the Baekeland Medal

7:30 - 8:30

Prof. John Rogers, Founder Professor of Chemistry and of

Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

Bigger is Better: Nano-materials for Large Area Electronics [ abstract ]


   Meeting:  The meeting will be held in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC) Room 3740

   Parking.  Go to the garage gates at the entrance to the Parking Deck (Building 20 on the NJIT map) and ask a Public Safety Officer for assistance. Tell him you are attending the Chemistry event in. Garage deck entrances are equipped with a two-way speaker that can be activated with the touch of the red button located near the card reader access panel.

   Pre-registration is recommended.  Deadline is Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007. 

   Poster presentations will be accepted on a first come first serve basis due to space limitation.  This is a good opportunity to showcase your work and network with other scientist.  Please email title of the poster, author’s names and a brief abstract by Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007 to: Diane Krone ( ). 

   Registration fee: ACS members $50.00 (non-members $60.00); students, retirees etc. $15.00.  Please use the 2nd form below to pay for the registration fee.  Cash or check, no credit card please.  On-site registration allowed but not preferred (cash or check only, no credit card).

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