October 24, 1996
Junghuei Chen, University of Delaware Dept. of Chemistry
The Design and Assembly of Interconnected Squares and Cubes Made of DNA

November 21, 1996
Carter Bancroft, Mount Sinai Medical School
DNA-Based Computation: Making DNA Add

December 19, 1996
David H. Wood, University of Delaware Dept. of Computer Science
Efficient DNA Algorithms for Permutations for HPP, TSP, and ESD0

January 16, 1997
John-Thones Amenyo, ANS Communications, Inc.
Engineering DNA Computer Architectures:
Bringing Mesoscopic (Molecular) Computing into the Mainstream

February 20, 1997
Nadrian Seeman, New York University Dept. of Chemistry
Control of DNA Structure and Topology: DNA Branches, Polyhedra and Knots

March 20, 1997
Sampath Kannan, U Penn Dept. of Computer Science
Some hard problems in computational biology

April 18, 1997
John Reif, Duke University Computer Science Department
Biomolecular Computation