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

Debate: "Rigor versus Practicality: Theoretical Progress, Materials Design, Computation and Real Ceramics"

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"

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