Ceramics at the Edge: Science in Emerging Technologies
Sessions and Talks at the upcoming meeting
Abstracts can be found by clicking on the titles
SUNDAY EVENING
Optical Properties of Ceramic Colloids
Discussion Leader, Dunbar Birnie, III, University of Arizona
Roger French, DuPont "Near Field Optics of Resonant Scattering in Particulate Systems"
Judith Wijnhoven, Universiteit van Amsterdam, "Ceramic photonic crystals made by self assembly"
MONDAY MORNING
Effect of Chemistry on Properties of Dissimilar Interfaces
Discussion Leader: Robert Cook, University of Minnesota
Randy Hay, Wright-Patterson AFB "Brittle and Ductile Deformation Associated with Interfaces in Ceramic Fibers, Coatings, and Composites"
Stephen J. Bennison and Anand Jagota , Dupont Central Research "Mechanical Behavior of Layered Ceramic-Polymer Microstructures"
MONDAY EVENING
Physics of Small Ceramic Devices
Charles Ahn, University of Geneva, "Epitaxial Ferroelectric Heterostructures : Writing Electronic Nanofeatures and Electrostatic Modulation of High Tc Superconductivity"
Introductions for the Invited Posters
Invited Poster Sessions
Viewing of Contributed Posters
TUESDAY MORNING
Ceramics at the Biological Interface,
Discussion Leader (tentative) Ilhan Aksay, Princeton
Marjoliene van der Meulen, Cornell "Mechanics in Skeletal Growth, Adaptation and Disease"
Sandra Burkett, MIT, "Inorganic-Organic Interfaces in the Synthesis and Performance of Bioceramic Materials"
TUESDAY EVENING
Moderator: Ronald Kerans, Wright-Patterson AFB, Rowland Cannon, LBL
Debators:
WEDNESDAY MORNING
Nanometer Scale Perturbations at Interfaces
Discussion Leader , Joachim Maier, Max Plank Inst. for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
Oliver Kienzle, Max Planck Inst. "Grain Boundary Segregation in Strontium Titanate and its Relation to Space Charge Layers"
Bryan Huey, Oxford Univ. "In situ Probes of Interface Potential and Local Electric Fields and Relation to Macroscopic Properties in Oxides"
Julia Hsu, University of Virginia "MICROSTRUCTURE DEFECTS IN BICRYSTAL SUBSTRATES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON YBa2Cu3O7 GRAIN BOUNDARY JUNCTIONS "
WEDNESDAY EVENING
Integrating Ceramic Structures in Electronic Devices
Discussion Leader: Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT
Steve Semancik, NIST "The Use of Micro Machined Array Platforms for Tuning Oxide-Based Gas Sensing Materials"
Tom Shaw, IBM "Fundamental Issues and Practical Problems Associated with the Use of Barium Strontium Titanate films for DRAM capacitors"
THURSDAY MORNING
Panel Discussion on "Future Directions of Research and Technological Applications: Realism vs Idealism"
Moderators: Arthur Heuer, Martin Harmer
THURSDAY EVENING
Traditional GRC Banquet
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Thursday Night Speaker:
Ivan Amato, "Science in the News: How it gets there, how it informs, and how it deceives....
NPR Science reporter, Journalist for Fortune, Time, Washington Post, Technology Review, and author of "Stuff: The Materials the World is Made of"