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Symposium on Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Materials 2009

Date 2009/10/23 (Fri)


The Symposium on Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Materials 2009 will be held on 23th October at the Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba co-organized with RCAT of Univ. of Tokyo.

Summary

Title
Symposium on Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Materials 2009
Date
2009/10/23 (Fri) 10:00-17:00
Venue
Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba - Annex (Tsukuba Center)

2-20-1 Takezono, Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki 305-0032, Japan
+81-29-852-1112

Organizer
International Center for Materials Nanoarchitechtonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Co-host
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), University of Tokyo
Fee
Symposium (free), Banquet (10,000 JPY)
Application
Please send the email with the following information:
1. your name
2. your affiliation
3. your phone number
4. yes/no of attendance of banquet (10,000 JPY).
EMail:
Organizers
Y. Bando, T. Fujita (NIMS)
Y. Kagawa, M. Enoki (Univ. of Tokyo)
Advisors
S. Ushioda, T. Noda, Y. Umakoshi, R. Kimura, M. Aono (NIMS)
K. Hashimoto, K. Miyano (Univ. of Tokyo)

10:00-10:15

Opening Remarks

Yoshio Bando
MANA COO, NIMS
10:15-11:00

A special talk: My research life

Teruo Kishi,
Former President of NIMS, Emeritus Professor of Univ. of Tokyo
11:00-11:30

Research trends for nanotechnology in the next decade

Mihail C. Roco
Senior Advisor of NSF, USA
11:30-12:00

Demands on materials; Challenges for materials science

Louis Schlapbach
NFP62 SC President, Former COE of EMPA, Switzerland
13:45-14:45

Phase transitions in metal-organic frameworks

Anthony K. Cheetham
Goldsmiths’ Prof. of Mat. Sci., Univ. of Cambridge, UK
13:45-14:15

Insight into the crystallization and solidification processes in solutions and melts

Thomas Böllinghaus
Vice President of Fed. Inst. Mat. Res. & Testing (BAM), Germany
15:15-15:45

Fracture of ceramics; Multi-length-scale problem

Yutaka Kagawa
Prof. of RCAST, Univ. of Tokyo
15:45-16:15

Design of advanced nanomaterialsusing supercritical fluids

Jean Etourneau
Director of European Multifunctional Materials Institute, France
16:15-16:45

From nanotechnology to nanoarchitectonics

Masakazu Aono
Director General of MANA, NIMS
16:45-17:00

Closing Remarks

Yukichi Umakoshi
Vice President, NIMS
18:30

Banquet