Thursday, January 15th, 2008
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| 8:00 - 9:00 am |
Registration and Breakfast- CNSI Lobby |
| 9:00 - 9:10 am |
Welcoming Remarks: Bruce Dunn (CNSI), Akio Makishima (JAIST) |
| Session Chair: Akio Makishima |
| 9:10 - 9:40 am |
Yukiko Yamada-Takamura (JAIST)
Surface and interface studies of GaN growth on silicon |
| 9:40 - 10:10 am |
Suneel Kodambaka (CNSI)
In situ Microscopy Studies of 0D, 1D, and 2D Structures - Small Clusters, Nanowires, and Graphene |
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 am |
Yuichi Hiratsuka (JAIST)
Micro-mechanical devices powered by biological motors |
| 11:00 - 11:30 am |
Jacob Schmidt (CNSI)
Lipid bilayer technologies enabling ion channel sensing and drug discovery |
| 11:30 - 12:00 pm |
Jeff Zink (CNSI)
Meso-structured Films, Multifunctional Nanoparticles and Molecular Machines |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
Lunch Time - CNSI Lobby |
| Session Chair: Teketoshi Yoshida |
| 1:30 - 2:00 pm |
Taku Hasobe (JAIST)
Construction of Supramolecular Nanoarchitectures for Light Energy Conversion |
| 2:00 - 2:30 pm |
Ben Schwartz (CNSI)
Controlling the nanometer-scale architecture of conjugated polymer-based bulk heterojunction solar cells |
| 2:30 - 3:00 pm |
Rainer Friedlein (JAIST)
Studies of charge-transport mechanisms in thin organic films and at interfaces using advanced photoelectron spectroscopies |
| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:15 - 3:45 pm |
Masaru Kawakami (JAIST)
Study of the single molecule dynamics study of biomolecules using atomic force microscopy |
| 3:45 - 4:15 |
Jim Gimzewski (CNSI)
Sub-100nm biological particle imaging and characterization with a purpose built nc-AFM |
| 4:15 - 6:00 pm |
Reception and Poster Session - CNSI Lobby |
| 6:00 - 7:30 pm |
Dinner - CNSI Lobby |
Friday, January 16th, 2008
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| 8:30 - 9:30 am |
Breakfast - CNSI Lobby |
| 9:15-9:30 am |
David Lundberg (CNSI)
CNSI International Programs |
| Session Chair: Bruce Dunn (CNSI) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 am |
J.D. Lee (JAIST)
Ultrafast mobility control of a polar semiconductor: finding the ultimate method for mobility control |
| 10:00 - 10:30 am |
Ya-Hong Xie (CNSI)
Momentum and Energy Relaxation Processes of 2-D Electron Systems in Strained Si-SiGe |
| 10:30 - 11:00 am |
Ryo Maezono (JAIST)
Electronic structure calculations using the Quantum Monte Carlo method |
| 11:00 - 11:30 am |
Vidvuds Ozolins (CNSI)
Computational design of new materials using first-principles quantum mechanical calculations |
| 11:30 - 11:45 pm |
Closing Remarks - Bruce Dunn (CNSI), Akio Makishima (JAIST) |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm |
Lunch - CNSI Lobby |
