8:00-8:45AM: Coffee, Cont. Breakfast at MIT (8-314, Chipman Room)
9:00-9:10AM: Introductory Remarks, W. Craig Carter
9:10-9:30AM: Overview from NSF Program Manager, Lynnette Madsen
10:00-10:15: Overview of NSF Effort, W.C. Carter
10:15-10:25 Discussion of NSF Collaborations
10:30-10:45: Overview of EU Effort, David Cockayne
10:45-10:55: Discussion of EU Collaborations
break
11:00-11:20:"Highly Controlled Thin Films in Novel
Devices" Stuart Parkin, IBM Almaden,
11:20-11:40: Discussion
12:00-1:30 Working Lunch with Talk: "Scientific Overview and Summary of State of Art" Rowland Cannon
1:40--2:00 "Structure and Compositional Studies at Grain
Boundaries in Si3N4 Ceramics Fluxed with Different Sintering
Additives" MPI Microscopy Group
2:00--2:20 Discussion of talk
2:20--2:40 "Progress in RDF studies of intergranular glassy
phases in grain boundaries in the NANOAM project", Oxford Microscopy Group
2:40--3:00 Discussion of talk
break
3:10--3:30 "Oxide surfaces and surficial films as studied by
electron spectroscopies" CEA-Saclay group"
3:30--3:50 Discussion of talk
3:50--4:10: "Influence of the rare-earth cation size on grain
growth anisotropy of beta-silicon nitride." Karlsruhe
Group
4:10--4:30 Discussion of talk
4:30--4:50 "Structure, segregant solubility and stability of
amorphous film in Si-based ceramic systems by
spatially-resolved EELS", Hui Gu (Talk to be
given by Rowland Cannon)
4:50--5:10 Discussion of talk
break
5:20-5:40 "Atomistic Modelling of Si-N-O Intergranular Films in
Si3N4 Ceramics" Oxford Theory Group
5:40--6:00 Discussion of talk
6:00--6:20 "Electronic Structure and Bonding of All Complex
Crystalline Forms in the SiO2-Si3N4-Y2O3 Phase Diagram" UM-K.C. Theory Group
6:20--6:40 Discussion of talk
7:00--7:20 No Host Cocktails at MIT Faculty CLub
7:30--8:45 Dinner at MIT Faculty Club
8:00-8:30AM Coffee, pastries at MIT
8:30--8:50: "Optical Properties, Interband
Transitions and Multilayer London Dispersion Forces For Surfaces and
Interfaces of SiC, SiO2, and SrTiO3"
UPenn Optics and Modelling Group.
8:50--9:10 Discussion of talk
9:10-9:30"Molecular dynamics simulations of the structure of
the IGF between silicon nitride crystals." Rutgers
Modelling Group
9:30--9:50 Discussion of talk
break
10;00--10:20 "Continuum Models of Thin Glass Films", MIT modelling group
10:20--10:40 Discussion of talk
10:40--11:00 "Metal-oxide/silicon (001) contacts: a discussion
of reaction, phase equilibria, and interface formation" Jon-Paul Maria, NCSU Thin Films Characerization Group.
11:00--11:20 Discussion of Talk
break
11:20--11:40:"Ab-initio Modeling on the Dielectric Properties
of Gate Oxide (ZrO2)x(SiO2)1-x" UM K.C. Theory Group
11:40--11:50 Discussion of Talk
12:00-1:30PM Working Lunch: Scheduled talks and Short Spontaneous (5 minute) Presentations (Think of this as a computer projected poster presentation)
2:00--2:45 Poster Viewing
3:00-4:00 General Discussion of project (All Participants):
4:00-5:00 Reserved for Developing Issues or Postponed items
5:00-6:30: Discussion and Collaboration Development (EU and NSF PIs and Postdoc Representatives)
7:00-9:00 No-Host Dinner working dinner, Restaurant to be arranged.
9:30-10:30: Discussion of Changing Work Plans and New Directions
10:30-12:00: Breakout session of Groups of New Collaborations
12:30-2:30 Working Lunch and reports of small groups