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Friday, May 3, 2002

9 a.m.
STUDENT POSTERS ON DISPLAY
Crossroads, Buntrock Commons
Posters available for public viewing between 9 a.m. Friday through 11 a.m. Saturday. Student presenters available from 4:45 - 6:00 p.m.

10 a.m.
HONORS DAY CONVOCATION
Boe Memorial Chapel

11 a.m.
HONORS DAY RECEPTION

2 p.m.
INTRODUCTION & WELCOME
Science Center 280
Wesley Pearson, professor of chemistry & Hardy Distinguished Professor of Natural Sciences and James L. Pence, Provost and Dean of the College

2:15 p.m.
PLENARY ADDRESS I
Science Center 280
Nanoshells: Nanotechnology for the "Real World" by Naomi J. Halas, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering, professor of chemistry, Rice University, Fellow in The American Physical Society.

3:30 p.m.
PLENARY ADDRESS II
Science Center 280
Building a Quantum Computer Atom by Atom by Christopher Monroe, Ph.D., associate professor of physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2001 I. I. Rabi Prize Winner - American Physical Society.

4:45 p.m.
FORMAL POSTER SESSION
Crossroads, Buntrock Commons

7:30 p.m.
PLENARY ADDRESS III
Science Center 280
Nanofluidics: Molecular Transport in Confined Spaces by J. Michael Ramsey, Ph.D., corporate research fellow, leader of the Laser Spectroscopy and Chemical Microtechnology Group, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

8:30 p.m.
CLOSING REMARKS
Science Center 280
Wesley Pearson, professor of chemistry & Hardy Distinguished Professor of Natural Sciences and David Van Wylen, professor of biology, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.