| The 2011 Lederman Lecture featuring Don Eigler, IBM Fellow |
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| The IIT Physics Department and Nobel Laureate and IIT Pritzker Professor of Physics Leon Lederman welcome everyone to the lecture "The Small Frontier" by Don Eigler, IBM Fellow, followed by a student forum. |
| Alumni: Visit your favorite faculty members, share memories, see how the campus has changed! Expected participants include Ray Burnstein, Porter Johnson, Earl Zwicker, Tom Erber, Howard Rubin, Harold Spector, Dan Kaplan, Carlo Segre, John Zasadzinski, Chris White, and Jeff Terry. [above]: Image originally created by IBM Corporation. |
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| The McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC) IIT Main Campus 33rd and State Street, Chicago Friday, October 14, 2011 10 a.m., Lecture, "The Small Frontier," MTCC Auditorium 2 p.m., Student Poster Session, Life Sciences Lobby 3 p.m., Student Forum, Life Sciences 111 Please RSVP by October 7 to rsvpevents@iit.edu or click here to register online. Check the IIT Physics website for updates about the 2011 Lederman Lecture |
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| Guest Speaker: Don Eigler, IBM Fellow |
 The Small FrontierDon Eigler, IBM Fellow IBM Almaden Research Center We have the extraordinary good fortune to witness and experience a time of change so rapid and sweeping in scope and impact that it will no doubt become ranked among the great revolutions in mankind's history. The Information Revolution is having a transformative impact on nearly every human endeavor. When we take a close look at what has made this progress possible we find a common theme: the ability to build ever-smaller structures. How far can this era of miniaturization take us and what will be the consequences? We will begin to form partial answers to this question by examining the ultimate limit of miniaturization: building things atom-by-atom from the bottom up. The scanning tunneling microscope enables scientists to have atomic-resolution images of surfaces, and we can use scanning tunneling microscopes to assemble atomically-precise structures of our own design. In a very real sense, we use atom manipulation as a tool that assists us to build a physical understanding of the nanoworld. In this presentation I will trace the development of tunneling microscopy from its roots to our present-day efforts to design and build novel structures for computation at the nanometer scale: The Small Frontier. |
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