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Berkeley In Silicon Valley:
New Directions in Technology

Hayes Mansion Conference Center, San Jose
Sponsored by the Colleges of
Engineering, Chemistry, and Letters & Science
Saturday June 1st
8:30am-2:30pm
Breakfast and lunch included
200 Edenvale Court
San Jose
Directions to Hayes Mansion

s Symposium registration $45
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Keynote Speaker
Joseph B. Costello, Chairman & CEO, think3, Inc .
Highly regarded for his business acumen and bold moves in the high-tech industry, Joe Costello leads think3, a 3-D design and software company. Prior to think3, Costello played a pivotal role as president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems Inc. for more than a decade. He earned a degree in Physics from Berkeley in 1980.

Program
8:30am | Registration and Continental Breakfast9:00 | Welcome
9:15 | Keynote Address | Joseph B. Costello
9:40 | Keynote Q & A
10:00 | Session I | Kimmen Sjolander, Kristopher Pister, Alex Zettl
10:40 | Networking Break and Graduate Student Poster Session
11:20 | Session II | Jay D. Keasling, Jan M. Rabaey, Arun Majumdar
noon | Networking Lunch
1:30pm | Session III | Micheal Marletta, Steven Glaser, K. Birgitta Whaley

Faculty Presentations
Biotechnology
Kimmen Sjölander, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Informatics of Plant Immunity
Plants have developed sophisticated strategies and defense mechanisms to escape pathogen attack. Proteomics and genomics analyses offer new insights into disease and pest resistance in plants, leading to new strains with improved resistance to pests and pathogens, increased crop production, and the potential to reduce world hunger.

Jay D. Keasling, Professor of Chemical Engineering
Turning Cells into Chemical Factories
Many complex molecules used to treat disease or synthesize novel materials are difficult to produce using traditional chemical techniques. Scientists and engineers are now using genomes sequences, bioinformatics, and genetic tools to re-engineer microbial cells to to be chemical factories.

Michael A. Marletta, Professor of Chemistry
How Nature Engineers Molecules
Why nature chose the reactive, toxic, highly diffusible gas nitric oxide (NO) to serve as a cell-to-cell signaling agent is a mystery. Nature has responded to these stringent demands by engineering a specific receptor for NO, building in the required specificity, offering scientists clues as to how to engineer entirely new molecules and receptors in the lab.

CITRIS
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society

Kristofer Pister, Professor of Electical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Smart Dust - Shrinking Wireless Sensors
Networks of wireless sensors are a crucial enabling component of the CITRIS vision. The goal of the Smart Dust project is to find the fundamental limits to size in a wireless sensor node, and to implement real systems that start to approach those limits.

Jan M. Rabaey , Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
The Ubiquitous Bit - A New Agenda for Wireless
With the advent of pervasive wireless sensor networks -- a key foundation of the CITRIS effort -- the focus of the wireless community is shifting from delivering more capacity to providing more bits cheaply.

Steven Glaser, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Disaster Risk Reduction: Distributed Sensors
Arrays of intelligent sensor agents can provide owners of large manufacturing facilities, transporting systems, and lifeline networks with the accurate, real-time information needed to make disaster recovery decisions. As a test case, engineers are using new tools that integrate information acquisition, evaluation, and modeling to develop health prognoses of structures.

Nanotechnology

Alex Zettl, Professor of Physics
Alice in Nanoland
Synthetic nanoscale materials such as carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes display novel mechanical, chemical, electronic, optical, and magnetic properties with intriguing underlying physics and the potential to revolutionize the electronics industry. Applications range from functionalized chemical sensors to molecular electronics to nanoscale mechanical actuators.

Arun Majumdar, Professor and Vice Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Nanomechanics in Cancer Diagnostics and Monitoring
Nanotechnological developments in biomolecular profiling are paving the way toward fast, accurate, and economical cancer-screening tests. A recently devised technique for detecting proteins is not only sensitive enough to serve as a diagnostic assay for the protein markers characteristic of prostrate cancer but also offers broad cancer-screening applicability.

K. Birgitta Whaley, Professor of Chemistry
Quantum Nanoprocessors
Nanostructured materials are essential to the operation and control of remarkable quantum devices. While quantum mechanical devices pose many nanoscale science and engineering challenges, they will enable astounding new possibilities for information processing.