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On this page is the schedule for week one of the course. Included are the day, time, lecturer, subject title, links to slides (PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files), and links to reading and questions.

To see the schedules for weeks 2 through 4, click here on the week:
week 2 |week 3 | week 4

All lectures are held in Jorgensen 74

Kickoff / Workshop Day: (Tuesday, June 15)

Date	Subject	Time	Lecturer	Title	Slides	Read	Questions
June 15	-	9:00	-	Coffee and Pastries
	-	9:30	Richard Murray	Welcome Introduction	-	-	-
	-	9:45	Jehoshua Bruck	Information Science & Technology	-	-	-
	PoC	10:45	André DeHon	Matter Computes	-	read	questions
	MOL	11:35	James Heath	Molecular Computing	-	read	questions
	-	12:25	-	Lunch	-	-	-
	BIO	1:40	Erik Winfree	Biomolecular Computing	-	read	questions
	QUANT	2:30	Hideo Mabuchi	Quantum Computing	-	read	questions
	-	3:40	-	Poster Session	-	-	-

Week 1: June 16 - 18

Date	Subject	Time	Lecturer	Title	Slides	Read	Questions
June 16	CS1	9:00am	John Savage	Models of Computation	ppt, ps	read	questions
	MOL1	10:30am	Marc Bockrath	Clean 1-of-experiments and fundamentals	pdf	read	questions
	QUANT1	4:30pm	Chris Fuchs	Intro to Quantum Mechanics	-	read	questions
	-	-	-	-	-	read	questions
	-	-	-	-	-	read	questions
	-	-	-	-	-	read	questions
June 17	CS2	9:00am	John Savage	Universality	ppt, ps	read	questions
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	CS3	10:30am	Michelle Effros	Information Theory 1	-	read	questions
	QUANT2	3:30pm	Chris Fuchs	Quantum Cryptography	-	read	questions
	-	7:00pm	-	Project Discussion	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
June 18	CS4	9:00am	Chris Umans	Computability	ppt	read	questions
	CS5	10:30am	Michelle Effros	Information Theory II	-	read	questions
	BIO1	4:30pm	Bernard Yurke	DNA: Structure, Energetics, Kinetics, and Machines	-	read	questions
	-	6:30pm	-	BBQ (front patio Jorgensen)	-	-	-
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