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EIGHTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE

Nanoscience Society

Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini

September 16 18, 2012

President Umberto Veronesi Vice President Kathleen Kennedy Townsend - Secretary General Chiara TonelliScientific Committee Zhores Alferov, Peter Atkins, J.Michael Bishop, Claudio Bordignon, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Daniel Dennett, Luc Montagnier, RitaLevi Montalcini, Paul Nurse, Philip Pettit, Carlo RubbiaProgram Committee Roberto Cingolani, Andrea Cuomo, Pier Paolo Di Fiore, Paolo Milani, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci

Organising Committee Carlo Bucci, Pasquale Gagliardi, Armando Peres, Lucio Pinto, Monica Ramaioli

Organising SecretariatFondazione Umberto Veronesi, +39 02 76018187info@thefutureofscience.orgwww.thefutureofscience.org

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Introduction

The starting of the XXI century has been marked by an intense and global scientific, economic and political investment on nanotechnology. During this past

decade, research and development in nanotechnology has made astonishing progress and has now provided a clearer indication of its potential.

The interdisciplinary character of nanoscience and technologies have raised the collective expectations that nanotechnology will keep technologically

based economies globally competitive and provide significant societal benefits, such as improved and affordable healthcare. Nanotechnology is becoming

an enabling technology, which is likely to have widespread and pervasive applications across a wide variety of industrial sectors.

The Conference will address the next decades expected shift to more complex generations of nanotechnology products, and the need to responsibly

address broad societal challenges such as sustainability and health.

The strategic role of Nanotechnology in determining the improvement of the quality of life and daily life organization through the advancement in sectors

such as new materials, information technology, medicine and biotechnology will be highlighted. The potential for societal and environmental benefits andconcerns will be discussed in view of the building of an accountable, inclusive and participative governance of scientific and technological development.

Program - June 20, 2012

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Opening

What is Nanoscience Roberto Cingolani Scientific Director Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy

How the world has changed with Nanoscience and

Nanotechnology?

Mihail Roco Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation, Virginia,USA

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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Morning Session

Nanotechnology for a smart society

The infinitesimally small will generate the infinitely complex. An overview of the future of technology and its relevant challenges. Technology will allow

the integration of ten billion nano-components in a few square millimeters of silicon. The result will be the generation of huge data flows, containing

Terabytes of data, that have to be organized and transmitted at lightspeed to deliver advanced products and services.

The Nano Journey: from Billions to Trillions and

Beyond

John Kelly IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research, IBM Corporation, USA

The Story of Computing: how Making Things

Smaller Makes Them More Powerful

Mark Horowitz Chairman Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA

A new Discovery for the Wireless Transmission of

large Dataflows

Fabrizio Tamburini Astrophysicist, Civen; University of Padova and IAES, Italy

The Challenge of Future Robots Giulio Sandini Director of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Istituto Italiano diTecnologia, Genova, Italy

Achieving Continuous Operation of Huge, Complex

and Ever-Changing Systems in the

Nanotechnology Era

Mario Tokoro Professor Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University; Presidentand CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Japan

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Afternoon Session

Nanomaterials for improved sustainability

Nanotechnology is an enabling and global-reaching technology affecting a wide range of industrial processes. This session will present and discuss

industrial processes for large-scale production of nanotechnology-based goods providing with particular attention to energy production and harvesting.

The impact of nanotechnology on environment and public awareness will be highlighted.

Manufacture of functional Nanomaterials and

Devices

Sotiris E. Pratsinis Department of Mechanical & Process Engineering,Swiss Federal Instituteof Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

Multifuntional Polymeric Nanocomposites Athanassia Athanassiou Senior Researcher, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy

Energy Michael Grtzel Professor, cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Switzerland

The future challenges and opportunities in

Nanoscience for the Environment

Nora Savage Nano Team Lead, Environmental Engineer, US EPA, ORD, NCER,Washington DC, USA

How Does the Public Make Sense of New Research

Areas?

Massimiano Bucchi Professor of Science and Technology in Society, University of Trento, Italy

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Morning Session

Nanomedecine: novel diagnostics and therapeutics

NanoMedicine is coming of age. From biosensors for diagnostic applications, to implantable bioreactors for the delivery of biomolecules, to nanovectors

for efficiently targeted drug delivery, the potential applications seem boundeless. The session will highlight many of these aspects without neglecting

potential concerns for biosafety, especially with reference to the interactions of nanoparticles with living systems.

Diagnostics Fabio Beltram Director Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy

Nanoparticle interactions in Biology and

Nanosafety

Kenneth A. Dawson Director Centre For BioNano Interactions (CBNI); University College Dublin,Ireland

AIRC Lecture Cancer Nanomedicine and

Transport Oncophysics

Mauro Ferrari President and CEO, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston,

USA

The Future of Nanoscience

Panel discussion

Roberto Cingolani, Scientific Director Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy

Andrea Cuomo, Executive Vice President, Advanced Systems Technology and Special Projects,STMicroelectronics, Switzerland

Paolo Milani,Dept. of Physics, University of Milano; Scientific Director Fondazione Filarete,Italy