List of Confirmed Plenary Speakers YUCOMAT 2008

Prof. Robert Sinclair, Chair
Materials Science and Engineering, StanfordUniversity, Director, Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory, Stanford, CA94305, USA
“Magnetic and Other Metallic Nanoparticles for Possible Medical Applications” (abstract)

Dr. Uli Dahmen, Director
National Center for Electron Microscopy, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory, University of California, at Berkeley, One Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA, USA
“Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Materials as a Driving Force for the TEAM Project” (abstract)

Prof. Robert Hull, Chair
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Materials Research Center, Rensselar Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY12180, USA
“NEW METHODS IN MATERIALS RESEARCH USING FOCUSED ION BEAMS” (abstract)

Prof. Mamoru Senna
Faculty of Science and Technology, KeioUniversity, Yokohama, Japan
“INTERFACIAL SOLID-STATE PROCESS CONTROL FOR MICRO- AND NANOCOMPOSITES” (abstract)

Prof.  Gregory W. Auner
Director, SSIM, Arthur R. Carr Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Room 3111, ENG, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
“The Meeting of MEMS and Nanotechnology” (abstract)

Prof. Ivo Rangelow,  Director
Institut fur Mikro- und nanoelektronik, Techniche Universitat Ilmenau, Kirchhoffbau, K2016, G.-Kirchhoff-Str. 1, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany
“Scanning Proximity Probes for Nanoscience” (abstract)

Dr. Serena Best
Reader in Ceramics and Medical Materials, Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, UK; St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP, UK
 “Nanostructured Apatites: The Next Generation of Bioactive Materials?” (abstract)

Prof. Josè M. Kenny
European Center of Nanostructured Polymers (ECNP) and University of Perugia - UdR INSTM, Loc. Pentima Bassa, 05100, Terni, ITALY
“Processing of Polymer Matrix Nanocomposites” (abstract)

Dr. Velimir Radmilovic, Principal Investigator
National Center for Electron Microscopy, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, One Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA, USA
“MONODISPERSED AL3(LiScZr) CORE/SHELL NANOSTRUCTURES EMBEDDED IN Al-RICH MATRIX” (abstract)

Prof. Rostislav A. Andrievskiy
Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, RussianAcademy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, MoscowRegion, Russia
“SIZE-DEPENDENT AND INTERFACE EFFECTS IN PROPERTIES OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS” (abstract)

Dr. Wim Bras, Project leader
Dutch-Belgian beam lines, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Reserach (NWO), DUBBLE CRG @ ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation) Facility, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, BP220, F38043 GRENOBLECEDEX, FRANCE
“Cordierite glass ceramics studied by X-ray scattering and electron microscopy” (abstract)

Prof. Doug Perovic, Chair
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Toronto, ON  M5S 3E4, Canada
“Intrinsic and Extrinsic Defects in Colloidal Photonic Crystal Films”(abstract)

Prof. Wolfgang Jäger
Microanalysis of Materials, Institute for Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kaiserstrasse 2, 24143 Kiel, Germany, EU
"HIGH-RESOLUTION TEM OF LAYERED CRYSTALS AND INCOMMENSURATE MISFIT LAYER COMPOUNDS AND THEIR INTERFACES" (abstract)

Prof. Xavier Batlle
Departament Física Fonamental, U. Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
“MAGNETIC AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES OF CONTROLLED SIZE AND SHAPE”(abstract)

Prof. Guillermo Solórzano
Materials Science and Engineering, PUC (Pontifícia Universidade Católica)- Rio de Janeiro, Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225 - Gávea - CEP 22453-900 Rio de Janeiro - RJ -Brasil
“NANO-STRUCTURED MATERIALS DEVELOPED BY CONTROLLED PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS AND SYNTHESIS PROCESSES” (abstract)

Prof. Dusan Petranovic
Design to Silicon Division, Mentor Graphics Corp., 1001 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California, 95131, USA
“CAN CARBON NANOTUBES BE COMPETITIVE IN CHIP INTERCONNECT APPLICATIONS”(abstract)

Prof. Jan Kusinski
University of Mining and Metallurgy, Laboratory Surface Engineering, 30054 Krakow, Poland
"SYNTHESIS AND IONIC CONDUCTIVITY OF NANOCRISTALLINE Y-DOPED Bi2O3 THIN FILMS" (abstract)

Prof. D. Suvorov
Advanced Materials Department, »Jozef Stefan« Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Recent advances in tunable materials development" (abstract)

Dr. Ferdinand Hofer
Institute for Electron Microscopy and Fine Structure Research, GrazUniversity of Technology, Graz, Austria
“NANOANALYSIS OF MATERIALS BY MEANS OF EELS SPECTRUM IMAGING IN A TRANSMISSION ELCTRON MICROSCOPE” (abstract)

Dr. R. Portier
Groupe de Métallurgie Structurale, LPCS, UMR-CNRS 7045, ENSCP, Paris, France
“Structural and Functional (Superficial) Biocompatibility of new Amorphous / Quasicrystalline Ti-based Composites” (abstract)