Dr. Frédéric Dupuis, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Raffi Budakian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Since the invention of the atomic force microscope (AFM) by Binnig, Quate and Gerber in 1986, force-based scanning probes have become an essential tool for imaging, manipulating and measuring materials on the nanometer scale. At the heart of the AFM is a mechanical sensor or cantilever that transduces the force generated between the probe tip and the sample into a displacement.
Tommaso Calarco, University of Ulm
Nathaniel Johnston, University of Guelph
Tzu Chieh Wei, University of British Columbia
Don Eigler, IBM
Classical Computation in Quantum Spin Structures
Can we design, build and operate atomic-scale logic circuits that perform conventional binary computation using only the spin degree of freedom?
Cristopher Moore, University of New Mexico
Since Shor's algorithm breaks RSA cryptography, it makes sense to look for post-quantum cryptosystems: cryptosystems that can be carried out with classical computers today, but which will remain secure even if and when quantum computers are built.
Matthew Leifer, University College London
Norbert Schuch, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Graeme Smith, IBM TJ Watson Research Center