List of Plenary Speakers YUCOMAT 2010

Professor Richard W. Siegel, Ph.D.
Robert W. Hunt Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center & NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, U.S.A.

Professor Alexander H. King
AMES Lab, director, Ames, IA, USA
 
Professor Robert Sinclair, Chair
Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Director, Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Professor Ulrich Dahmen
NCEM/LBNL, director; Berkeley, CA, USA

Professor Robert Ritchie
UC Berkeley & LBNL, Department of Materials Science, Chair; Berkeley, CA, USA

Professor Frank E. Karasz
Silvio O. Conte Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Conte Research Center, 120 Governors Drive, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
“Conducting Polymers as Thermoelectric Materials”

Prof. Mamoru Senna
Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

Professor Velimir Radmilovic, Principal Investigator
National Center for Electron Microscopy, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, One Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA, USA

Professor Danilo Suvorov
Advanced Materials Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Professor Spomenka Kobe
Institute Jozef Stefan, Department of Nanostructured Materials, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dr. Thomas Kelly
CEO of IMAGO, Madison, WI, USA

Professor Xavier Batlle
Departament Física Fonamental, U. Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Professor Carolin Koerner
University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Dr. Martina Luysberg
Julich University, Julich, Germany

Professor Andy Minor
Department of Materials Science, UC Berkeley & LBNL, Berkeley, CA, USA

Professor Leonidas Tsetseris
National Technical University of Athens, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Greece
“First-principles studies of traditional and emerging materials”

Professor Vlado Lubarda
School of Engineering, UCSD, San Diego, USA
“Mechanisms of dynamic void growth by dislocation emission for nano and micron size voids”

Professor Mihály Pósfai
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
“Characterization of magnetic nanocrystals formed by magnetotactic bacteria”

Dr. Ai Leen Koh
Centre for Plasmonics & Metamaterials, Imperial College, London; UK
“Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) for Nanoplasmonic Applications in Materials Science”