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PROGRAM - TNT2007
 
Week Schedule

TNT2007 - POSTER PRESENTATION DETAILS

Poster size: A0 format (width: 841 mm x Height: 1189 mm)

Session A (PA): From Monday morning to Tuesday evening.
Session B (PB): From Wednesday afternoon to Friday lunch time.

Posters from Session A (PA) should be installed on Monday morning and removed on Tuesday between 17h15 - 19h45.
Posters from Session B (PB) should be installed on Wednesday before 13h00 and removed on Friday before 13h30.


I: Invited Lecture (45 min. including discussion time)
K: Keynote Lecture (30 min. including discussion time)
O: Oral Presentation (15 min. including discussion time)
PS: Poster session


SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM - TNT2007
Monday - September 03, 2007
08h00-09h00
REGISTRATION
09h00-09h15
Welcome and Introduction
Chairman: Pedro Echenique (DIPC, Spain)
09h15-10h00
Jean-Marie Lehn (ISIS-ULP, France)
"Self-Organization of Functional Supramolecular Devices"
I
10h00-10h30
Katsuhiko Ariga (NIMS, Japan)
"Supermolecules as soft materials with dynamic structures and functions in all dimensions: from molecules to nano, micro, and bulk"
K
10h30-11h00
Sanjay Biswas (Indian Institute of Science, India)
"Frictional dissipation in self assembled MONOlayers of organic molecules"
K
11h00-11h15
Werner Hofer (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
"Perfect ordering of molecular nanostructures"
O
11h15-12h15
Coffee Break - Poster Session A - Instrument Exhibition
Chairman: Jose-Maria Pitarke (CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Spain)
12h15-12h45
Flemming Besenbacher (iNANO, Denmark)
"Enhanced Bonding of Gold Nanoparticles on Oxidized TiO2(110)"
K
12h45-13h00
Daniel Farias (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
 "Probing reaction dynamics at metal surfaces with H2 diffraction"
O
13h00-15h30
Lunch
Chairman: Flemming Besenbacher (iNANO, Denmark)
15h30-16h00
Fernando Moreno (Institut Català de Nanotecnologia, Spain)
"High flexibility of DNA on short length scales probed by atomic force microscopy"
K
16h00-16h15
Jose-Luis Toca Herrera (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain)
"Bacterial protein crystals as pure biomimetic nano-molecules"
O
16h15-16h30
Jorge Ripoll (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Crete)
"Obtaining information at the molecular level with mesoscopic fluorescent measurements"
O
16h30-19h30
Coffee Break - Poster Session A - Instrument Exhibition
PS
 
21h30
WELCOME RECEPTION - HOTEL LONDRES: More Info
DIPC
Sponsored by DIPC (Spain)

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM - TNT2007
Tuesday - September 04, 2007
Chairman: Ron Reifenberger (Purdue University, USA)
08h30-09h00
Juan Carlos Cuevas (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
"Electronic transport in single-molecule junctions"
K
09h00-09h30
Andre Gourdon (CEMES/CNRS, France)
"Single Molecular Devices"
K
09h30-09h45
Giovanni Cuniberti (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
"Tuning the conductance of a molecular switch"
O
09h45-10h00
Danny Porath (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Scanning tunneling spectroscopy and polarizability measurements of DNA and G4-DNA molecules"
O
10h00-10h30
Silvano De Franceschi (CEA/DRFMC, France)
"Electron transport in semiconductor nanowires"
K
10h30-10h45
Douglas Galvao (State University of Campinas, Brazil)
"Metallic Nanowires: When is an alloy not an alloy ?"
O
10h45-11h45
Coffee Break - Poster Session A - Instrument Exhibition
Chairman: Antonio Garcia-Martin (IMM-CSIC, Spain)
11h45-12h15
Yoshiro Hirayama (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Nuclear-spintronics in semiconductor nanostructures"
K
12h15-12h45
Ulrich Zuelicke (Massey University, New Zealand)
"Nanospintronics meets relativistic quantum physics: Ubiquity of Zitterbewegung effects"
K
12h45-13h00
Christian Degen (IBM Research Div., United States)
"Nuclear spin detection enabled by ultra-sensitive cantilevers"
O
13h00-15h00
Lunch
Chairman: Daniel Rugar (IBM, USA)
15h00-15h30
Oscar Custance (Osaka University, Japan)
"Chemical identification of individual surface atoms using dynamic force microscopy"
K
15h30-16h00
Richard Berndt (Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Germany)
"Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy in a Microampère Range"
K
16h00-16h30
Peter Gruetter (McGill, Canada)
"Electrostatic Force Microscopy of InGa at Cryogenic Temperatures"
K
16h30-16h45
Jose Maria Gomez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
"Adatom-adatom interaction mediated by an underlying surface phase transition"
O
16h45-17h15
Coffee Break - Poster Session A - Instrument Exhibition
Chairman: Oscar Custance (Osaka Univiversity, Japan)
17h15-17h45
Daniel Rugar (IBM Research Div., United States)
"Magnetic resonance force microscopy: the quest for a molecular structure microscope"
K
17h45-18h15
Antonio Hernando (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
"Magnetic properties of ZnO Nanoparticles"
K
18h15-18h45
Vladimiro Mujica (Northwestern University, USA)
"Magnetism in Gold Nanoparticles and Gold clusters: The Role of Chemisorption and Size"
K
18h45-19h15
Andreas Berger (CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Spain)
"Challenges and Opportunities in Nano-Magnetism Research and Technology"
K
19h15-19h45
Harald Brune (EPFL, Switzerland)
"Interface and composition effects determining the magnetic properties of bi-metallic nanostructures"
K
REMINDER: Please note that those posters corresponding to Session A must be removed today between 17:15 and 19:45
 
21h30
RECEPTION - RESTAURANT BRANKA: More Info
NIMS-Nanomaterials Laboratory
Sponsored by NIMS (Japan)

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM - TNT2007
Wednesday - September 05, 2007
Chairman: John Pendry (Imperial College London, UK)
08h30-09h00
Stefan W. Hell (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
"Breaking Abbe’s barrier: Diffraction-unlimited resolution in far-field microscopy"
K
09h00-09h30
Niek F. van Hulst (Institute of Photonic Sciences - ICFO, Spain)
"Nano-antennas - Tools for light on the nanoscale"
K
09h30-10h00
Rainer Hillenbrand (Max-Planck-Institut fur Biochemie, Germany)
"Scattering-type Near-Field Microscopy: From Nanoscale Infrared Material Recognition to Superlens Studies"
K
10h00-11h00
Coffee Break - Poster Session B - Instrument Exhibition
REMINDER: Please note that those posters corresponding to Session B must be installed today before 13:00
Chairman: Jose-Luis Costa Kramer (IMM-CSIC, Spain)
11h00-11h45
Uzi Landman (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Controlling the Nanoscale: From Nanocatalysis to Nanowires, DNA Damage, and Wigner Molecules"
I
11h45-12h15
Alexei Marchenkov (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"AC Josephson effect and resonant superconducting transport through vibrating Nb nanowires"
K
12h15-12h45
Robert N. Barnett (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Atomic, Electronic, and Transport Properties of semiconducting and molecular wires and their metallic Contacts"
K
12h45-13h00
Simon Berner (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
"Boron Nitride Nanomesh: Functionality from a Corrugated Monolayer"
O
13h00-15h00
Lunch
 
15h00-17h00
"NanoScience in the Basque Country" Session: More info
PhD Session: More info
17h00-17h30
Coffee Break - Poster Session B - Instrument Exhibition
Chairman: Stephan Roche (CEA-DRFMC, France)
17h30-18h00
Erio Tosatti (SISSA, Italy)
"Ballistic to diffusive crossover in the sliding of kicked clusters"
K
18h00-18h30
Geert-Jan Kroes (Leiden University, Netherlands)
"Nanocluster DFT studies with applications to production and storage of hydrogen"
K
18h30-18h45
Damien Thompson (Tyndall National Institute, Ireland)
"Computer simulations of nanopatterning"

O
18h45-19h00
Andrey Knizhnik (Kinetic Technologies Ltd, Russia)
"Atomistic modeling of metal/high-k oxide interface properties as function of gas treatment"
O
19h00-19h30
Alexander Shluger (University College London, UK)
"Predicting the properties of new oxides for nano-devices"
K
19h30-20h00
Asen Asenov (University of Glasgow, UK)
"Simulation of atomic scale statistical variability in nano-CMOS devices using DD, MC and QT simulation techniques"
K
21h30

CONFERENCE DINNER

00h00
POSTER AWARDS CEREMONY: More Info

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM - TNT2007
Thursday - September 06, 2007
Chairman: Juan Jose Saenz (UAM, Spain)
13h30-14h15
John Pendry (Imperial College London, UK)
"Transformation Optics: Designing Optics on the Nanoscale"
I
14h15-14h45
Pedro Echenique (Donostia International Physics Center, Spain)
"A novel low energy collective excitation at metal surfaces"
K
14h45-15h15
Diederik S. Wiersma (LENS, Italy)
"Making lasers from dust: The physics and applications of random lasers"
K
15h15-15h45
Remi Carminati (Ecole Centrale Paris, France)
"Local density of states in near-field optics"
K
15h45-16h15
Coffee Break - Poster Session B - Instrument Exhibition
Chairman: Remi Carminati (Ecole Centrale Paris, France)
16h15-16h45
Mikael Kall (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Nanoplasmonics – from fundamental studies to novel functionalities"
K
16h45-17h15
Jean Francois Roch (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
"Photoluminescent diamond nanoparticles"
K
17h15-19h15
Coffee Break - Poster Session B - Instrument Exhibition
PS

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM - TNT2007
Friday - September 07, 2007
Chairman: Manuel Marques (UAM, Spain)
08h30-09h00
H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University, USA)
"The Puzzling Behavior of Liquid Water: Some Clues from the Nanoscale"
K
09h00-09h30
Jacob Klein (Oxford University/Weizmann Institut, UK)
"Hydrated ions as nano-ball-bearings"
K
09h30-10h00
Suzanne Jarvis (University College Dublin, Ireland)
"Biological Water"
K
10h00-10h30
Ichiro Yamashita (Panasonic, Japan)
"Nanofabrication of inorganic functional structures by protein supramolecules WET-NANOTECHNOLOGY"
K
10h30-11h00
Coffee Break - Poster Session B – Instrument Exhibition
“Nanotubes” Session – Sponsored by GDRE

Chairman: Daniel Sanchez-Portal (DIPC - CSIC, Spain)
GDR on Science and Applications of Nanotubes
11h00-11h30
Stephan Roche (CEA/DRFMC, France)
"Revisiting Charge Transport at the Mesoscopic Scale : Emerging quantum phenomena in the light of advanced Computational Approaches"
K
11h30-12h00
Guglielmo Lanzani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
"Dynamics at the nanoscale: Ultrafast Exciton processes in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes"
K
12h00-12h15
Beatriz Hernandez Juarez (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Germany)
"Quantum dot attachment and morphology control by carbon nanotubes"
O
12h15-12h30
Adam Rycerz (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Valley filter and valley valve in graphene"
O
12h30-13h15
Sumio Iijima (Meijo University, Japan)
"Science and Nanotechnology of Nano-carbon materials"
I
13h15-13h30
CLOSING REMARKS & TNT2008 ANNOUNCEMENT

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