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Small is All: Nano, Bio, and the Future of Technology

22nd Annual Yunker Lecture

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

 Speaker: Paul L. McEuen, Professor of Physics, Cornell University

For over half a century, miniaturization has been the dominant force driving technological progress. While airplanes and automobiles have hardly changed, the ever-shrinking integrated circuit has taken us from the 10-pound adding machine to the 5-ounce Blackberry. The next 50 years promise even bigger change as everything from medical labs to satellites get shrunk to the size of postage stamps. In this talk, I will examine why small is so big, look at a few examples of shrinking technologies, and speculate how nano will change your life, for good and ill.


Weniger Hall (campus map)
151
Ethan Minot
1 541 737 9671
minote at physics.oregonstate.edu
Physics
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