2009 Materials Week Agenda

Monday, August 31, 2009

7:45 AM – 8:30 AM       Registration and continental breakfast
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM       Welcome
8:45 AM – 9:30 AM       Keynote Address: Randall M. Feenstra, Carnegie Mellon University, “Surfaces and Interfaces of Compound Semiconductors”
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM     Symposium: Moving the Silicon Roadmap and Visioning Beyond: Scaling, Integration and New Materials

• Recent Developments in Solid-State Nanostructures: Marvin H. White, Lehigh University
• Materials Integration On and Off the Roadmap: Eugene A. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nanoelectronics and Nano-Spintronics: Kang L. Wang, University of California, Los Angeles

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM     Lunch on your own (map of local eateries will be provided)
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM       Symposium: Magnetoelectronics and Nanostructures

• Spin Torque Effects in Magnetic Nanostructure and Magnetic Tunnel Junctions: Robert Buhrman, Cornell University
• Atomic-Scale Studies of Magnetism with the STM: Jay Gupta, The Ohio State University
• Double Perovskites: Mining the Periodic Table for New Functional Materials: Patrick M. Woodward, The Ohio State University
• Correlated Oxide Heterostructures: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM       General Materials Student Poster Session and Reception*
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM       Center for Emergent Materials External Advisory Board Dinner (Board members and invited participants only)

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

8:00 AM – 3:00 PM       Center for Emergent Materials External Advisory Board Meeting and Center Review (Board members and invited participants only)

 
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM       Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM     Symposium: Advances in Energy Storage: New Materials, Challenges and Opportunities

• Spectroscopic Monitoring of Elementary Processes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices: Daniel A. Scherson, Case Western Reserve University
• Present Status of Energy Storage for Portable and Stationary Application: Materials Limitations: M. Stanley Whittingham, SUNY Binghamton
• Challenges and Opportunities of Lithium Ion Battery Technology: Arumugam Manthiram, University of Texas at Austin
• Aging and Characterization of Lithium Ion Batteries for Automotive Applications: Giorgio Rizzoni & Bharat Bhushan, The Ohio State University
• Cobalt Oxide Nanowire Arrays for Li-ion Batteries: Yiying Wu, The Ohio State University

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM     Lunch on your own (map of local eateries will be provided)
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM      Symposium: Photovoltaic Materials and Technology: State of the Art and State of the Future in Solar Energy Conversion

• Thin Film PV: Grid Parity and Lifecycle Goals: David Eaglesham, First Solar
• I-III-VI Thin Films Solar Cells: Status, Challenges and Future: Sylvain Marsillac, University of Toledo
• High Efficiency, Multi-junction Solar Cells for Space and Terrestrial Applications: Paul Sharps, EMCORE
• Challenges for Organic Photovoltaics: A case Study of Poly(3-hexylthiophene)-Fullerene Derivative Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaics: Paul R. Berger, The Ohio State University

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM     Center for Emergent Materials Student Poster Session and Reception*

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM       Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM     Symposium: Nitrides and Diamond: Wide Bandgap Materials for New Functionalities

• The Development of Electronic Grade Diamond for High Energy Physics Applications: Harris Kagan, The Ohio State University
• High-Speed Coherent Control of Single Spins in Diamond: Gregory Fuchs, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Epitaxial Growth of Nitride Heterostructures for Photonics, Electronics, and Spintronics:  Roberto C.  Myers & Siddharth Rajan, The Ohio State University
• GaN Nanowires: Growth, Properties and Device Opportunities: Stephen D. Hersee, University of New Mexico

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM     Lunch on your own (map of local eateries will be provided)
11:00 PM – 5:00 PM     IMR External Advisory Board Meeting and Center Review (Board members and invited participants only)
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM     Agilent Technologies “Innovations Tour” –  Truck – Demonstrations of Agilent Equipment and Instrumentation
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM     ENCOMM NanoSystems Laboratory (ENSL) Open House and Facility Tour

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM     IMR Gala at COSI Columbus City View Plaza, with private viewing of special exhibit “Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science”*

Thursday, September 3, 2009

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM       Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM     Symposium: Materials By Design: Computational Materials

•  Chemistry and Deformation: First Principles Studies of Local Plasticity: Christopher Woodward, US Air Force Research Laboratory
• Diffusion-limited Processes Treated With Accelerated Molecular Dynamics: Murray S. Daw, Clemson Univeristy
• Ab-Initio Modeling of Structures and Processes in Semiconductors: Wolfgang Windl, The Ohio State University

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM    Symposium: Biosensors: Materials, Devices and Challenges

• Design Strategies for Biosensor Development: Dyes, Quantum Dots and Zeolites: Prabir Dutta, The Ohio State University
• Implantable Biochips: A Tool in the Management of Battlefield Hemorrhage: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, Clemson University
• Biomolecular Motors in Hybrid Material and Sensor Assemblies: George D. Bachand, Sandia National Laboratories
• Nano and Biotechnology Convergence for Precision Biology & Personalized Medicine: Luke P. Lee, University of California, Berkeley

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM     Materials Week Luncheon and Student Awards Session*

 * Advance registration is required for the student poster sessions (for those contributing posters), the September 2nd reception at COSI, and the September 3rd luncheon and student awards session