| 1st | International Symposium on the |
| Functionality of Organized Nanostructures | |
| (FON'04) | |
| (Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of the Atomcraft Project) | |
| (2004.12.8) Photos have been updated! | |
| §Date | |
| November 30, 2004 -- December 2, 2004 | |
| §Venue | |
| International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Japan | |
| §Scope | |
| The invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) by Binnig and Rohrer in 1982 led material scientists to the idea of manipulating single atoms at will with the probe tip of the STM. To put this dream into practice, the Atomcraft Project was founded by Prof. Masakazu Aono at Tsukuba, Japan, in 1989. This five-year project, supported by the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), made a number of inspired innovations that contributed to the extraordinary development of nanotechnology to date. 2004 is the 15th anniversary of launch of the Atomcraft Project. To mark this anniversary, the 1st International Symposium on Functionality of Organized Nanostructures (FON'04) will be held at the birthplace of the Atomcraft Project; Japan's science city Tsukuba. To realize the economic and societal potential of nanotechnology in the 21st century, it is essential to establish methodologies to organize atomic, molecular, and nanoscale "components" into a "system" with designed functionality. The manipulation of single atoms, molecules, and nanostructures with scanning probe tips is still insufficient in throughput and self-assembly of components has not yet achieved adequate levels of control. This symposium aims to inspire innovative ideas towards a new methodology for assembling nanostructures through discussions about the latest state-of-the-art nanotechnological techniques, including theoretical approaches. | |
| §Topics | |
| •Atomic, molecular and nanoscale materials and structures •Self- and designed-organization of nanoscale components •Functional properties of nanoscale materials and their assembly •Nanoelectronics and nanodevices: basics and applications •Biology, chemistry, and physics at the nanometer scale | |
| §Invited Speakers | |
| •Heinrich Rohrer (Nobel Laureate, Switzerland) •Masakazu Aono (Osaka University & NIMS, Japan) •Yasuhiko Arakawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) •Don Eigler (IBM, USA) •Christoph Gerber (IBM, Switzerland) •James K. Gimzewski (UCLA, USA) •Masahiko Hara (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) •Tomihiro Hashizume (Hitachi, Japan) •Franz Himpsel (University of Wisconsin, USA) •Jianguo Hou (University Science and Technology of China, China) •Christian Joachim (CNRS, France) •Maki Kawai (University of Tokyo & RIKEN, USA) •Tomoji Kawai (Osaka University, Japan) •Nobuyuki Koguchi (NIMS, Japan) •Eiichi Maruyama (RIKEN, Japan) •Kazuhiko Matsumoto (Osaka University, Japan) •Keiichi Namba (Osaka University, Japan) •John Pethica (Oxford University, UK) •Toshio Sakurai (Tohoku University, Japan) •Kunio Takayanagi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) •Seigo Tarucha (University of Tokyo, Japan) •Hiroshi Tokumoto (Hokkaido University, Japan) •Akira Tonomura (Hitachi & RIKEN, Japan) •Jaw-Shen Tsai (NEC & RIKEN, Japan) •Tien Tsong (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) •Masaru Tsukada (Waseda University, Japan) •Hiroshi Yokoyama (AIST, Japan) •Paul S. Weiss (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
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| §Program and Photos (2004.12.8 update) | |
| Click here to go "Program and Photos" web page.
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| §Local Organizing Committee | |
| •Tomonobu Nakayama (NIMS, Japan)[Chair] •Toyohiro Chikyo (NIMS, Japan) •Daisuke Fujita (NIMS, Japan) •Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (NIMS, Japan) •Nobuyuki Koguchi (NIMS, Japan)[Advisor] •Kazushi Miki (NIMS, Japan) •Takashi Sekiguchi (NIMS, Japan) (* Guest Members) •Francois Grey* (CERN, Switzerland)[Vice Chair] •Satoshi Watanabe* (University of Tokyo, Japan)
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| §International Organizing Committee | |
| (* Advisors of the past Atomcraft Project) •Heinrich Rohrer* (Switzerland) •Young Kuk* (Seoul National University, Korea) •Tien Tsong* (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) •Masaru Tsukada* (Waseda University, Japan) •R. Stanley Williams* (HP, USA) •Yoshio Bando (NIMS, Japan) •Christoph Gerber (IBM, Switzerland) •James K. Gimzewski (UCLA, USA) •Christian Joachim (CNRS, France) •Maki Kawai (University of Tokyo & RIKEN, USA) •Toshio Sakurai (Tohoku University, Japan) •Qikun Xue (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) •Mark E. Welland (University of Cambridge, UK)
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| §International Steering Committee | |
| •Heinrich Rohrer (Switzerland) •Flemming Besenbacher (Aarhus University, Denmark) •Don Eigler (IBM, USA) •Christoph Gerber (IBM, Switzerland) •James K. Gimzewski (UCLA, USA) •Sumio Iijima (Meijo University, AIST, & NEC, Japan) •Teruo Kishi (NIMS, Japan) •Seizo Morita (Osaka University, Japan) •Toshio Sakurai (Tohoku University, Japan) •Kunio Takayanagi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) •Akira Tonomura (Hitachi & RIKEN, Japan) •Mark E. Welland (University of Cambridge, UK)
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| §Sponsors | |
| •Nanomaterials Laboratory, NIMS •International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS), NIMS •ICORP, Japan Science and Technology Agency
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| §Correspondence should be addressed to: | |
| Tomonobu Nakayama (Nanomaterials Laboratory, NIMS) Tel: +81-29-860-4129 Fax: +81-29-860-4793
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