2021 Foresight Molecular Machines Seminars
An invitational group of scientists, funders, and institutional allies who cooperate to advance molecular machines, progress toward atomic precision for applications in energy, medicine, material science, and space development, and Richard Feynman’s vision of nanotechnology. This group is chaired by ForesightFellow James Cooper, University of Reading. This report gives an overview of our 2021 recorded seminars, including a favorite slide, and a link to the full written summary and recording for those who wish to learn more.
Contemporary Materials Science: How Can Molecular Machines Help?
An interactive competition co-chaired by Prof. Fraser Stoddart and Dr. Melissa Dumartin, Northwestern Univ. A multidisciplinary group of specialists in target technical areas collaborated with those tackling the challenges of atomically-precise 3D structures and molecular machines to heal the Earth’s environment, revolutionize medical care for human healthspan and longevity, and develop materials with unprecedented properties and functions including sensing, computation, and actuation..
2019 Atomic Precision for Healing the Planet
An interactive competition co-chaired by Tom Chi (Co-Founder, Google X), and William Goddard (Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology).
2018 Atomic Precision for Healthspan & Longevity
Specialists in research areas related to increasing human longevity will collaborate with those tackling the challenges of atomically-precise 3D structures and molecular machines, including construction molecular biology, computational chemistry, and engineering.
2018 Integrated Molecular Machines
Specialists in target applications collaborated with those tackling the challenges of atomically-precise 3D structures and molecular machines, including construction pathways using chemistry, applied physics, biochemistry, molecular biology, and engineering.
2017 Atomic Precision for Healthspan & Longevity
A multidisciplinary group of specialists in healthspan and longevity research will collaborate with those tackling the challenges of atomically-precise 3D structures and molecular machines, including construction pathways using chemistry, applied physics, biochemistry, molecular biology, and engineering.
AI for Atomic Precision: Design Software for Molecular Machines
This two-day, fast-paced interactive workshop in Silicon Valley is targeted at generating new insights, new projects, and especially new funding for the goal of applying advanced computer science to the challenges of atomic precision.
2017 Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Progress
This fast-paced interactive competition is targeted at exploring new research projects that apply advanced computer science to the most pressing challenges in scientific research.
Breakthrough Technologies for Energy
During this invitational meeting wide-ranging thinkers explore future research directions, form new multi-disciplinary teams, and speed atomically-precise advances relating to energy generation, transmission, and use reduction.
2016 Atomic Precision for Medicine
This meeting focuses on long-term prospects for revolutionary advances in medical applications based on improved precision in the control of matter, and speeding up research into that direction.
Directed and Programmable Matter for Energy
A private technical meeting focused on long-term prospects for revolutionary advances in energy storage, transmission, and generation based on improved precision in our control of matter.
Illumniating Atomic Precision
The conference brings together many of the world’s leading researchers to stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue, productive research collaboration and technical progress towards beneficial nanotechnologies. Speakers include George Church, Dean Astumian, Art Olson, Gerhard Klimeck, William Goddard, Larry Millstein, Joseph Puglisi, Alex Wissner-Gross, John Randall, Leonhard Grill.
Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence
This conference focuses on the potential exponential takeoff of rapidly-developing technologies. Speakers included J. Storrs Hall, Ralph Merkle, Michael Anissimov, Paul Saffo, Salim Ismail, Brad Templeton, Monica Anderson, and many others.
Prior Conferences
Bench to Market: Idea Evaluation and Commercialization for Product-market Fit
The B.R.AI.N.S salon on Human Biology and Freedom
17th Foresight Conference: “The Integration Conference“
Foresight @ Google: 25th Anniversary Conference Celebration
Foresight 2010: the Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and AGI
Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap
Advancing Beneficial Nanotechnology: Focusing on the Cutting Edge
1st Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology: Research, Applications, and Policy
11th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology – 2003
10th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology – 2002
Ninth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology – 2001
Eighth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology – 2000
Seventh Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology – 1999
First ELBA-Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology – 1999
Sixth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology – 1998
Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology – 1997
Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology – 1995
Third Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology – 1993
First General Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology – 1992
First Foresight Conference on Nanotechnology – 1989
