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The conference will be take place at the Commons Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Location Map:

Location:
Commons Conference Center
10100 Burnet Road, Bldg 137
Austin, TX 78758

Thursday January 16

  • 2:00 – 4:00 pm Registration and check-in open
    • Registration will be located in the Atrium.
  • 4:00 – 5:30 pm Lab tours of the Nascent Center
    • If you would like to participate in this tour please meet in the atrium  at 4 pm in the Commons Conference Center and the group will walk over to the Nascent Center.
  • 5:30 – 7:00 pm Dinner and Networking
    • All meeting attendees are welcome to attend the Dinner and Networking.  This dinner will be located in the Atrium of the Commons Conference Center.

Friday January 17

  • Breakfast – 7:45-8:10 am
    • Seat members in Balcones, pass out documents
  • Session 1 – Scale Up
    • 8:10 – 8:15 am – Introduction
    • 8:15 – 8:45 am – ‘Digital Atomic Scale Fabrication’ – John Randall 
    • 8:45 – 9:30 am Lightning round talks (3 minute presentations)
      • “Nanocoining: Large-Area Masters for R2R NIL” – Stephen Furst
      • “Multiscale Precision Instrumentation Laboratory” – Ouyang Wenqi
      • “Industrial X-ray Quality Solutions: From the research Lab to Industrial Production” – Herminso Villarraga-Gómez
      • “Application-Driven Precision Mechatronics” – Lei Zhou
      • “Lion Precision” – Gregor Hanes
      • “Ultra Precision Machining of Hard and Brittle Materials” – Hossein Mohammadi
      • “Additive Manufactured Very Light Weight Diamond Turned Aspheric Mirror” – John Casstevens
      • “Scalable Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing (STEAM) Laboratory at Georgia Tech” – Sourabh Saha
      • “Wafer Scale Exfoliation of Microscale Monocrystalline Silicon Films” – Martin Ward
      • “Microscale Additive Manufacturing Research” – Dipankar Behera
      • “Defining the Role of Tip-based Measurement in Roll-to-Roll Nanofabrication” – Liam G. Connolly
      • “Hyperspectral Imaging for High Throughput Metrology of Si Nanopillar Arrays” – Crystal Barrera
  • Break
    • 9:30 – 10:00 am
  • Session 2 – Quantum Engineering
    • 10:00 – 10:30 am – “Nano-to-Macro Fabrication of Superconducting Circuits for Quantum Information Technology” – Shyam Shankar
    • 10:30 – 11:00 am –“Surface Ion Traps for Quantum Computing” – Daniel Stick
    • 11:00 – 11:45 Lightning round talks (3 minute presentations)
      • “Precision Micro/Nano Team at LLNL” – Robert Panas
      • “Multi-Bessel Beam High-Resolution Wafer Dicing Based on a Spatial Light Modulator” – Hiu Hung Lee
      • “A Study of Mechanical Logic Elements” – Frederick Sun
      • “Design and Microfabrication of Mechanical Logic Gates” – Amin Farzaneh
      • “The PtychoProbe at the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade” – Curt Preissner
      • “Precision Process Control in Volumetric Additive Manufacturing” – Johanna Schwartz
      • “MEMS Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer for in situ Viscoelastic Characterization of 3D printed Nanostructures” – David Cayll
      • “Automated Three-Dimensional Microgranular Crystal Fabrication” – Miles Lim
      • “Displacement Measurements and Nano-Positioners” – Vaden West
      • “Achieving the Upper Bound of Piezoelectric Response in Tunable, Wearable 3D Printed Nanocomposites” – Desheng Yao
      • “Genesis R2R RIE Platform: Si nanoPillars” – Ziam Ghaznavi
      • “Targets Fabrication – National Ignition Facility Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory” – Stefano Schiaffino
  • Open session and Lunch
    • 11:45 am – 1:00 pm Follow up free discussion/posters/hardware, lunch
  • Session 3 – Scale up
    • 1:00 – 1:30 pm Keynote – “Nanoscale Fabrication Enabled by Precision Systems” – Sharwan Singhal
    • 1:30 – 1:45 pm – “Nanostructured Materials and Nanomanufacturing Laboratory” – Chih-Hao Chang
    • 1:45 – 2:00 pm – “Micro Cold Spray for Producing Ceramic and Metal Patterned Thick Films” – Desiderio Kovar
    • 2:00 – 2:15 pm – “Photomask Inspection and Metrology” – ChaBum Lee
    • 2:15 – 2:30 pm – “Large Angle Micromirror Array” – David Torres Reyes
  • Session 4 – Open Session and Closeout
    • 2:30-3:15 pm Follow up free discussion/posters/hardware
    • 3:15-4:00 pm Follow up free group discussion – Plans for micro/nano precision community to be summarized in editorial