Conference 2009
Symposium on Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Materials 2009
The Symposium on Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Materials 2009 will be held on 23th October at the Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba organized by MANA, NIMS, and RCAST, Univ. of Tokyo.
| Date | Oct. 23rd, Friday, 2009 |
| Time | 10:00-17:00 Symposium (free of charge) 18:30-19:30 Banquet (10,000 JPY) |
| Place | Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba |
| Program | |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Opening Remarks Yoshio Bando, MANA COO, NIMS |
| 10:15 | A special talk: My research life Teruo Kishi, Former President of NIMS, Emeritus Professor of Univ. of Tokyo |
| 11:00 | Research trends for nanotechnology in the next decade Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor of NSF, USA |
| 11:30 | Demands on materials; Challenges for materials science Louis Schlapbach, Prof. Em. Physics ETH, Former COE of EMPA, Switzerland |
| 12:00 | Break |
| 13:45 | Phase transitions in metal-organic frameworks Anthony K. Cheetham, Goldsmiths’ Prof. of Mat. Sci., Univ. of Cambridge, UK |
| 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 |
| 14:45 | <b>Tea Break</b> |
| 15:15 | Fracture of ceramics; Multi-length-scale problem Yutaka Kagawa, Prof. of RCAST, Univ. of Tokyo |
| 15:45 | Design of advanced nanomaterialsusing supercritical fluids Jean Etourneau, Director of European Multifunctional Materials Institute, France |
| 16:15 | From nanotechnology to nanoarchitectonics Masakazu Aono, Director General of MANA, NIMS |
| 16:45 | Closing Remarks Yukichi Umakoshi Vice President, NIMS |
| 18:30 | Banquet |
- Organizers
- Y. Bando, T. Fujita, MANA, NIMS
- Y. Kagawa, NIMS
- M. Enoki, Univ. of Tokyo
- Advisors (NIMS)
- S. Ushioda, T. Noda, Y. Umakoshi, R. Kimura, M. Aono
- K. Hashimoto (Univ. of Tokyo), K. Miyano (Univ. of Tokyo)
- Organized by
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitechtonics (MANA)
- National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), University of Tokyo
Registration
Attendance fee for the symposium is free of charge. Banquet fee is 10,000 JPY. Your registration by October 9th will be highly appreciated. The banquet fee payment will be available at the reception desk on Oct 23rd.
For registration, please send the email to "contact for Symposium on Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Materials 2009" with the following information:
1. your name
2. your affiliation
3. your phone number
4. yes/no of attendance of banquet (10,000 JPY).
For registration, please send the email to "contact for Symposium on Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Materials 2009" with the following information:
1. your name
2. your affiliation
3. your phone number
4. yes/no of attendance of banquet (10,000 JPY).