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Overview & Locations

As part of the CNF Annual Meeting, we provide and include breakfast, lunch, and hors d’oeuvres and an Open Bar at the Poster Session. Your registration fee helps cover the cost of these items, along with the meeting materials. Vegetarian options will be available at all times, but do let us know, on your registration form, if you have more specific dietary restrictions.

8:00am - 4:00p, Registration & Hot Breakfast Buffet / Presentations
    G10 Biotechnology Building, Cornell Campus

12p - 1:30p, Lunch, Statler Hotel Ballroom

5:00p -  7:00p, Poster Session & Corporate Soiree, Duffield Hall Atria

:•:  2011 CNF Annual Meeting  :•:

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Morning Session

8:00-8:45 a.m. Registration & Hot Breakfast Buffet (G10 Biotech)

8:45-9:00 Welcoming Remarks (G10 Biotech)

   Donald Tennant, CNF Director of Operations

   Daniel Ralph, CNF Director

9:00-9:45 Plenary Speaker: Philip Kim, Professor of Physics, Columbia University

                     “Toward Graphene Quantum Electronics”

9:45-10:00 Break

Session Chair: Michael Skvarla

10:00-10:15, Rob Andosca, MicroGen Systems, Inc.

                     “MEMS-Based Energy Harvesting and Applications”

10:15-10:30, Mehmet Yilmaz, Mechanical Engineering Department, Columbia University

                     “Batch-Compatible Integration of Nanoscale Test Samples and MEMS Devices for Mechanical Testing of Nanoscale Materials”

10:30-10:45, Jaime Cardenas, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cornell University

                     “Tunable True Time Delay for Phased Array Antenna Beamsteering”

10:45-11:00, Yue Shi, SonicMems Laboratory, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cornell University

                     “Electrostatic Actuation of Ion Beams On-Chip: Towards A Wafer-Scale Ion Accelerator”

11:00-11:15 Break

Session Chair: Elizabeth Rhoades

11:15-11:30, Marcus Gingrich, Center for Innovative Visual Rehabilitation, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA

                     “Development of the Boston Retinal Prosthesis”

11:30-11:45, Marie Krysak, Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University

                     “High Etch Resistant Inorganic Nanoparticle Photoresist for DUV and EUV Lithography”

11:45-12:00, Soheil Saadat, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Northeastern University

                     “A Novel Approach for Realizing On-Chip Wireless Communication”

12:00-12:15, Wan Li, Physics Department, Cornell University

                     “Electrochemistry of Individual Monolayer Graphene Sheets”

12:15-1:30, Lunch, Statler Ballroom                                

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Alan Bleier

1:30-1:45, David Crouse, Electrical Engineering, The City University of New York

                     “Applied Metamaterials and Nanocomposite Photonic Structures”

1:45-2:00, Michael Mak, Biomedical Engineering Department, Cornell University

                     “Microgeometries and Nearfield Photonics for Studying Cancer Cell Mechanics”

2:00-2:15, Shantanu Rajwade, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cornell University

                     “A Ferroelectric and Charge Hybrid Nonvolatile Memory”

2:15-2:30, Byungki Jung, Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University

                     “Exploring Sub-Millisecond Heating of Chemically Amplified  Photoresists for DUV and EUV Lithography”

2:30-2:45, Mandy Esch, Biomedical Engineering Department, Cornell University

                     “Development of In Vitro Cell Culture Devices for Nanoparticle  Toxicity Testing and Cancer Metastasis Research ”

2:45-3:00 Break

Session Chair: Daniel Woodie

3:00-3:15, Guillaume Lambert, Physics Department, Princeton University

                     “Emergent Collective Behavior of Microorganisms”

3:15-3:30, Carlos Ruiz-Vargas, Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University

                     “Mechanical Properties of CVD Graphene Patchwork Quilts”

3:30-3:45, Laura  Fegely, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cornell University

                     “An Optomechanical Gyroscope: Using 3D Fabrication Techniques to Miniaturize the Hemispherical Resonator Gyroscope”

3:45-4:00, Aline Cerf, Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University

                     “DNA Manipulation and Analysis Using Soft-Lithography and Molecular Combing”

4:00, CNF Clean Room Tours / Poster Set-Up  

(CNF User and Executive Committee meet in G01 Biotech)

Evening Session

5:00-7:00p, Poster Session & Corporate Soiree (Duffield Hall Atria)

User Presentation and Poster Awards, and the Nellie Yeh-Poh Lin Whetten
Memorial Award will be given out at 6:30 p.m.