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The 2015 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium was held April 16-18 at the Steigenberger Hotel in Potsdam, Germany. About 60 outstanding engineers under the age of 45 met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Nano-to-Micro Robotics, Synthetic Membranes and their Applications, Particle Accelerators and their Applications, and Protecting User Privacy in the Age Big Data. The event facilitated international and cross-disciplinary research collaboration, promotes the transfer of new techniques and approaches across disparate engineering fields, and encourages the creation of a transatlantic network of world-class engineers.
Links to presentation slides are in the List of Sessions below, and links to the papers are in the Program.
This program was carried out in cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
The National Academy of Engineering would like to express its gratitude to The Grainger Foundation and the National Science Foundation for their support of the 2015 GAFOE Symposium.
National Academy of Engineering Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2015 German-American Frontiers of Engineering April 16-18, 2015 Steigenberger Hotel Sanssouci Potsdam, Germany LIST OF SESSIONS
Symposium co-chairs: Cynthia Barnhart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Peter Moser, RWE Power AG NANO-TO-MICRO ROBOTICS Session co-chairs: Sarah Bergbreiter, University of Maryland, and Samuel Sanchez, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Introduction Session co-chairs Bionanomechanics with Optical Tweezers: Molecular Machines under Tension Erik Schäffer, University of Tübingen Designing Synthetic DNA Walkers Jong Hyun Choi, Purdue University Nanorobot Propulsion in Biological Fluids Peer Fischer, University of Stuttgart PiezoMEMS Technology for RF Systems and mm-Scale Robotics Ronald Polcawich, US Army Research Laboratory PARTICLE ACCELERATORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Session Co-chairs: Daniela Leitner, Michigan State University, and Julia Herzen, Technical University Munich Introduction Session co-chairs Engineering and Industrializing Superconducting Particle Accelerators Matthew Johnson, Michigan State University Development of High Field Superconducting Accelerator Magnets Helene Felice, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory X-ray Nano-Diffraction Meets Materials Science Christina Krywka, Institute of Materials Research, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht Development of Laser-Driven High-Energy Particle and Radiation Sources Jörg Schreiber, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich and the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics SYNTHETIC MEMBRANES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Session Co-chairs: Kathryn Beers, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Martin Bram, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH Introduction Session co-chairs Synthetic Membranes - Principles and Challenges Chinedum Osuji, Yale University How Membrane Technology Contributes to Sustainability and Life Sciences Abhishek Roy, Dow Chemical Company Efficient Gas Separation with Inorganic Membranes Stefan Wagner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Role of Liquid Electrolytes and Solid Membranes in New Battery Systems Phillip Adelhelm, Justus Liebig University Giessen PROTECTING USER PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF BIG DATA Session Co-chairs: Michael Backes, Saarland University, and Nick Feamster, Princeton University Introduction Session co-chairs Understanding Politically Motivated Adversaries: Targeted Threats and Censorship Product Fingerprinting Phillipa Gill, Stony Brook University Human Factors in Big Data Privacy Matthew Smith, University of Bonn Towards Provable Privacy Guarantees in the Age of User Profiling Matteo Maffei, University of Saarland The Tor Project Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project