Technology: Nanotech

Presenter Ken Houk, UCLA Ken Houk is a computational organic chemist whose quantum mechanical and molecular dynamics simulations have elucidated structural and dynamical features of synthetic nanomachines. He is the winner of the 2021 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory… Read More The Dynamics of Molecular Gears Ken’s lab investigates pericyclases and the 6 +… Continue reading Ken Houk | The Dynamics of Molecular Gears

Presenter Yuanning Feng Yuanning was born in Dandong, Liaoning and grew up in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. After obtaining the gold medal of the National Chemistry Olympiad of China, he started his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University with an Outstanding Incoming Student Fellowship. Yuanning worked as an undergraduate… Read More Molecular Replication Process Drives Supramolecular Polymerization… Continue reading Yuanning Feng | A Molecular Replication Process Drives Supramolecular Polymerization

Off the record

Off the record

Presenters Ravi Pandya, Microsoft Research Ravi Pandya is a Principal Software Architect at Microsoft Research.  He had a startup called Hyperchem which dealt with molecular mechanics and gave him his start in nanotechnology.  He presented to Xanadu, where he met with Eric Drexler.  Ravi started moving into genomics and biotech, and is currently working on… Continue reading Ravi Pandya, Tad Hogg | Molecular Machines: Computing