The Nevada Ventures Nanoscience Program at the University of Nevada, Reno is extremely pleased to announce Nevada’s first nanotechnology symposium featuring Stanford University Professors Dr. Calvin Quate and Dr. Thomas Kenny. Public presentations will be hosted November 29, 2001 at the University of Nevada, Reno during the day and a special Cocktails.com evening session hosted that evening by the TechAlliance, the NVNP and UNR.

Calvin F. Quate, Ph.D., is the Leland T. Edwards Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, Applied Physics (Research), Stanford University. He is the co-inventor of the Atomic Force Microscope - one of the most important tools for imaging and manipulating matter at the nanoscale. He was a Senior Research Fellow of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from 1984-1994. He has received the Rank Prize for Opto-Electronics (1982), the IEEE Medal of Honor (1988), and the National Medal of Science (1992). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, and the Royal Society, London.

Thomas Kenny, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He attended the University of Minnesota as an undergraduate and UC Berkeley for graduate school, receiving his Ph.D. in physics in 1989. He has received a National Science Foundation Career Award (199599) and a Terman Fellowship (1995-98). Professor Kenny’s research interests are in microelectromechanical systems, micromechanical devices. His research group is working on microsensors based on silicon micromachining and the use of electron tunneling as a sensitive displacement transducer. Such technology is used to measure infrared radiation, vibration, magnetic fields, and other small physical signals. The group is also working on novel microfabrication techniques for development of high-aspect-ratio microstructures. This work includes fabrication of thin crystalline cantilevers for NMR force detection and x-ray optical elements for solar telescopes.