§November 30, 2004 |
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18:00 |
Early Registration and Mixing (Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba)
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§December 1, 2004 |
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8:00 |
Regstration (International Congress Center) |
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Chair: T. Nakayama |
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8:45 |
T. Nakayama (NIMS & University of Tsukuba) Opening Remark
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8:50 |
T. Kishi (President of NIMS) Greetings
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9:00 |
H. Rohrer (Nobel Laureate, Switzerland) Nano materialscience
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9:30 |
Short break
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Chair: D. Eigler |
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9:45 |
J.K. Gimzewski (UCLA, USA) Nanomechanical probes from bacteria to nuclear fusion
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10:15 |
T. Kawai (Osaka University, Japan) DNA based nano-scale bio-devices
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10:45 |
H. Tokumoto (Hokkaido University, Japan) Single multi-walled carbon nanotubes for SPM-tips and FE sources
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11:15 |
Poster Session (Group Photo & Coffee Service)

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12:15 |
Lunch |
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Chair: T. Sakurai |
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13:15 |
D. Eigler (IBM, USA) Single-atom spin-flip spectroscopy
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13:45 |
M. Kawai (RIKEN & Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) Electron Phonon Interaction at Surfaces
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14:15 |
T.T. Tsong (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Quantum and size effects on the growth of surface nano structures
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14:45 |
K. Takayanagi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) STM-UHV electron microscope study on nanowires and nanocontacts: Structure and electronic conductance quantization
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15:15 |
Short break
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Chair: F. Himpsel |
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15:30 |
C. Joachim (CNRS, France) Electronic contact conductance on a molecular wire
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16:00 |
M. Tsukada (Waseda University, Japan) Recent theoretical progress of SPM and nano-structures
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16:30 |
A. Tonomura (Hitachi & RIKEN, Japan) The quantum phenomena observed by electrons
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17:00 |
S. Tarucha (University of Tokyo, Japan) Control over spin effects in semiconductor quantum dot molecules
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17:30 |
Y. Arakawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Fabrication and optical properties of quantum dots for advanced photonic devices
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19:00 |
Banquet (Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba)

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§December 2, 2004 |
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Chair: H. Yokoyama |
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8:30 |
E. Maruyama (RIKEN, Japan) Some historical notes on nanoscience/technology research in Japan
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9:00 |
C. Gerber (IBM, Switzerland) Nanomechanics : a toolbox for the small
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9:30 |
K. Namba (Osaka University, Japan) Self-assembly and dynamic switching of the bacterial flagellum
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10:00 |
Y. Horiike (NIMS, Japan) Behaviors of DNA in nano-channel
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10:30 |
Short break |
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Chair: C. Joachim |
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10:50 |
H. Yokoyama (AIST, Japan) Novel electro-optical and mechanical functionalities in nanostructured liquid crystals
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11:20 |
P.S. Weiss (Pennsilvania State Univ., USA) Creating nanostructures through self- and directed assembly
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11:50 |
T. Hashizume (Hitachi, Japan) Characteristics of organic nanowires using two-/four-probe fine electrodes fabricated by SPM nanofabrication
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12:20 |
Lunch |
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Chair: J.K. Gimzewski |
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13:20 |
F. Himpsel (Univ. of Wisconsin Madison, USA) Atomic chains on silicon: From low-dimensional electrons to the limits of data storage
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13:50 |
N. Koguchi (NIMS, Japan) Self-assembly of semiconductor quantum dots by droplet epitaxy
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14:20 |
J.-S. Tsai (NEC & RIKEN, Japan) Recent progresses in superconducting charge qubit
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14:50 |
K. Matsumoto (Osaka University) Carbon nanotube applications for nanoelectron devices
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15:20 |
Short break |
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Chair: J.-S. Tsai |
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15:40 |
J.-G. Hou (Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, China) Study of single molecules and nanoparticles with a scanning tunneling microscope
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16:10 |
M. Hara (Tokyo Inst. of Technol. & RIKEN, Japan) Self-Assembled Monolayers and Single Molecular Detection
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16:40 |
J. Pethica (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) Nanomechanics, energy dissipation and shape formation
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17:10 |
T. Sakurai (Tohoku University, Japan) Alkali metals adsorption on the Si (111)-7x7 surface: From 2D gas to magic clusters
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17:40 |
M. Aono (NIMS & Osaka Univ., Japan) Fabrication, characterization and organization of nanostructures
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18:10 |
F. Grey (CERN, Switzerland) Closing Remark
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