Registration and Check-In
Maeder Hall, 86 Olden Street (map)

Welcoming Remarks

Richard A. Register, Director, Princeton Materials Institute. Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University.
Craig B. Arnold, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Vice Dean for Innovation in the Office of the Dean for Research. Co-Leader, Princeton Alliance for Collaborative Research and Innovation, Princeton University.
Andrea J. Goldsmith, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science. Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University.

'Understanding the Molecular Design Features Responsible for Charge Transport in Organic Semiconducting Polymers'

Welcoming Iain McCulloch, Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor in Energy and Environment. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University.

Session I: Quantum Materials and Microelectronics

'Visualizing Many Body Quantum States in Two-Dimensional Materials'
Ali Yazdani, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics. Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials. Inaugural Co-director, Princeton Quantum Initiative, Princeton University.

Leslie M. Schoop, Associate Professor of Chemistry. Associate Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials, Princeton University.

Coffee Break

Lunch, Friend Center Convocation Room

Session I: Quantum Materials and Microelectronics

'Characterization of Materials and Decoherence for Superconducting Qubits'
Robert Schoelkopf, Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics. Founding Director of the Yale Quantum Institute, Yale University. Co-founder and Chief Scientist, QCI.

'New Materials for Quantum Computing'
Nathalie P. de Leon, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University.

Session II: Panel Discussion: Entrepreneurial Journey with Princeton Technologies: A Historical Overview and Future Perspectives
Moderator: Nena Golubovic, Director of Design for Innovation Program in Sciences and Engineering, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Princeton University.

Panelists:
Marcus N. Hultmark, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University. (Tendo)
Ian McKendry, Chief Operating Officer, HiT Nano.
Naveen Verma, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Director of the Program in Entrepreneurship, Princeton University. (EnCharge AI)
Chao Yan, Founder and CEO, Princeton NuEnergy

Coffee Break

Session III: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Materials Science

'Vendi Scoring for Discovery'
Adji Bousso Dieng, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University.

'AFM Based ML for Structure/Property Relationships'
Dalia Yablon, Founder, SurfaceChar. Technical Program Chair, TechConnect.

'Data-driven Strategies to Navigate Sequence, Composition, and Architectural Complexity in Polymer Physics'
Michael A. Webb, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University.

Reception and Poster Session, Bowen Hall

Registration and Check-In
Maeder Hall, 86 Olden Street (map)

Session IV: Nature Inspired Design of Materials

'Architected Materials for Civil Infrastructure'
Reza Moini, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University.

'Bio-inspired Multifunctional Structures: Distributed Elasticity for Locomotion and Ultrafast Dynamics'
Aimy Wissa, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University.

Session V: Materials Role for a Sustainable Future

'Understanding the Mechanisms Controlling Sustainable Cements Using Novel Neutron and X-ray Total Scattering Methods'
Claire E. White, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University.

'Power Electronics for Sustainability and Sustainable Power Electronics'
Minjie Chen, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University.

'Material Development for Colgate's Recyclable Tube Journey: Vision to Reality to Future'
Jun Wang, Director in Packaging Innovation, Global Design & Packaging, Colgate-Palmolive Company. 

Coffee Break

Session VI: Core Facilities: Micro/Nanofabrication Center (MNFC) and Imaging and Analysis Center (IAC)

'Imaging and Analysis Center – a Wonderland of  World-Class Instruments'
Nan Yao, Director, Imaging and Analysis Center. Professor of the Practice, Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University.

'From Ideas to Devices: Leveraging the Capabilities of the Micro/Nanofabrication Center (MNFC)'
Dan P. Woodie, Director, Micro/Nanofabrication Center, Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University.

Session VII: Panel Discussion: Core Facilities
Moderator: Dan P. Woodie, Director, Micro/Nanofabrication Center, Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University.

Panelists:
David Hill, Research Scientist, SRI International.
Yevgeny Raitses, Managing Principal Research Physicist. Lecturer in Astrophysical Sciences, PPPL Discovery Plasma Science.
Samantha Roberts, ASRC Nanofabrication Facility Director, City University of New York.
Dalia Yablon, Founder, SurfaceChar. Technical Program Chair, TechConnect.
Nan Yao, Director, Imaging and Analysis Center. Professor of the Practice, Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University.

Final Remarks

Richard A. Register, Director, Princeton Materials Institute. Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University.

Lunch, Friend Center Convocation Room

(Optional) Tours of the Micro/Nanofabrication Center (MNFC) and Imaging and Analysis Center (IAC)

Roundtable: Meet the new director of the Micro/Nanofabrication Center (MNFC).
Maeder Hall 103