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2004 Industrial Physics Forum
"
Sustaining the Information Technology Revolution"

October 24-26, 2004 — Yorktown Heights, NY
Hosted by IBM T.J.Watson Research Center

IPF Program
(click on the presenter's names to view biographies and talk abstracts)

Sunday, October 24, 2004 (Rye Town Hilton Hotel)
Academic-Industrial Workshop (Pre-Conference)  
Industrial Physics Forum opening reception & buffet dinner  
   
Monday, October 25, 2004 (TJ Watson Research Center)
Breakfast 7:15am
Buses depart for T.J. Watson Research Center 8:00am
  Welcoming Remarks
Marc Brodsky, Executive Director and CEO, AIP
IBM
9:00am
Theme Session: Sustaining the Information Technology Revolution 
  Deriving Value from Research at IBM
Paul Horn, Senior Vice President of Research, IBM
9:15am
  Microelectronics
Randy Isaac, Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Systems & Technology Group, IBM
9:35am
  IT Nanotechnology at the Intersection of Multi-Disciplines
Sam Stupp, Director, Institute for Bioengineering & Nanoscience in Advanced Medicine, Northwestern University
10:05am
Break 10:45-11:15am
  IBM's Life Science Business and Research Investments
Caroline Kovac, General Manager, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences
11:15am
  Quantum Computing
David DiVincenzo, Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
11:55am
Lunch 12:45 - 2:00pm

Tours of IBM TJ Wastson Research Center

2:00 - 5:00pm
Reception & Dinner Banquet (TJ Watson Research Center)  5:00 - 8:00pm
  Banquet Speaker
Vision and Art
Margaret Livingstone
, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
 
  AIP Award for Science Writing by a Scientist  
Buses return to Rye Town Hilton 8:00pm
   
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 (Sessions at Rye Town Hilton Hotel)
Breakfast

7:30am
Policy Session – Society, Economics & Information Technology  
  Maintaining a Vigorous Information Technology Ecosystem
George Scalise, President, Semiconductor Industry Association
8:20am
  IT & the World Economy
Dale Jorgenson, Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University
9:00am
  Adaptive IT & Industrial Competitiveness
Marv Adams, Chief Information Officer, Ford Motor Company
9:40am
Break 10:20 - 10:40am
  Privacy & Security
Barbara Simons

10:40am
Frontiers in Physics Session  
  Bits & Atoms
Neil Gershenfeld, MIT
11:20am
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00pm
  The Dark Side of the Universe: Beyond stars and the starstuff we are made of
Michael Turner, National Science Foundation (NSF)
1:00pm
  Biological Large Scale Integration
Stephen Quake, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Caltech
1:40pm
  Electronics and Optoelectronics with Single Carbon Nanotubes
Phaedon Avouris, IBM Fellow and Manager of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, IBM Research
2:20pm
Adjourn 3:00pm