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Week 1
(June 6-10) |
Tue June 7
Organizational Information (Lee) Introduction/Survey of Nanostructures (Lee) PowerPoint Streaming Audio/Video Pictures of Nanostructures PowerPoint Thu June 9 Dendrimers & Nanofluidics (Lee) PowerPoint |
Feynman 1959 (class handout)
Drexler Ch. 7: Engines of Healing 1986 (Text) |
Hwk#1 Report on Feynman
(due Tue June 14) |
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Week 2
(June 13-17) |
Tue June 14
Overview of Supercomputing (Neeman) PowerPoint Streaming Audio/Video Introduction to Wet Lab (Newman) PowerPoint Thu June 16 |
Handout:
Papers by Tomalia Literature Web Search |
Hwk#2 Report on Eric Drexler
(due Thu June 16) |
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Week 3
(June 20-24) |
Starburst Dendrimers
(Lee)
Wet Lab (Newman) |
Web Info
Handouts on Aerogels |
HPC Hwk#1
(due Tue June 21) Hwk#3 Report on Erice Drexler (Chapter 11) (due Tue June 28) Progress Report (Midterm) (due Tue July 5) Midterm Report (due Tue July 12) Report Format |
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Week 4
(June 27 - July 1) |
Aerogels
(Lee)
Wet Lab (Newman) Supercomputing: Storage Hierarchy (Neeman) Part 1 Streaming Audio/Video Part 2 Streaming Audio/Video Supercomputing: Instruction Level Parallelism (Neeman) Streaming Audio/Video |
Handouts |
HPC Hwk#2
(due Tue July 5) HPC Hwk#3 (due Tue July 5) Hwk#5: Report on Tomalia Paper of 1990 on Dendrimers (due Thu June 30) Group Presentations Each group will present a 10-minute talk outlining the manufacture, chracterization, structure, and applications of the nanostructures on -- 10 minutes only per group!!! |
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Week 5
(July 4-8) |
Tue July 5
Aerogels (Lee) Streaming Audio/Video Thu July 7 Midterm Exam Scope |
To be announced | Homework on Aerogels | |
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Week 6
(July 11-15) |
Tue July 12
Student Presentations: Each group will present a thirty-minute talk outlining the manufacture, chracterization, structure, and applications of their chosen nanostrucures. Use PowerPoint; 30 minutes per person!!! Thu July 14 Student Presentations Supercomputing: Parallelism -- Dependencies, Shared Memory Multithreading, Distributed Multiprocessing (Part 1) Streaming Audio/Video |
To be announced |
Midterm Report
(due Tue July 12)
Report Format |
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Week 7
(July 18-22) |
Tue July 19
Wet Lab (Newman) Thu July 21 Carbon Nanotubes (Lee) Part 1 Streaming Audio/Video Part 2 Streaming Audio/Video Nanofluidics (Lee) Streaming Audio/Video |
To be announced | To be announced | |
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Week 8
(July 25-29) |
Tue July 26
To be announced Thu July 28 Trip to the Nanotechnology Foundation of Texas's Nano Summit Research Conference |
To be announced | To be announced | |
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