YUCOMAT 2006

List of Proposed Invited Lecturers

Dr. Heike Gabrisch - confirmed
Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans , New Orleans , LA 70115 , USA

" Application of Transmission Electron Microscopy techniques to the study of intercalation compounds used in rechargeable Li-ion batteries"

Prof. Rostislav A. Andrievski - confirmed

Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russia

"Hydrogen in Nanostructures"

Prof. Dr. Zoran S. Petrovic - confirmed

Pittsburg State University, Kansas Polymer Research Center , Pittsburg , KS , US A

"EFFECT OF HYPERBRANCHED VEGETABLE OIL POLYOLS ON PROPERTIES OF FLEXIBLE POLYURETHANE FOAMS"

Dr. Ivan Bozovic - confirmed

Brookhaven National Laboratory, MA 480, Upton NY, USA

Prof. Eiji Osawa - confirmed

NanoCarbon Research Institute, Ltd. Kashiwa , Chiba , Japan

" NANODIAMOND: ULTIMATE CARBON MATERIAL "

Dr. Amelia Montone - confirmed

Materials and Technology Unit, ENEA C.R. Casaccia, Roma , Italy

"Reaction with hydrogen of micro and nano composites based on Mg hydrides"

Prof. Elena F. Sheka - confirmed

Russian Peoples Frindship University , Chernogolovka, Moscow District , Russia

"A NEW ASPECT IN THE COMPUTATIONAL NANOMATERIAL SCIENCE: ODD ELECTRONS IN MOLECULAR CHEMISTRY, SURFACE SCIENCE, AND SOLID STATE MAGNETISM"

Prof. Natalia Kamanina - confirmed

Vavilov State Optical Institute, St. Petersburg

" PHOTOPHYSICS OF FULLERENE-DOPED NANOSTRUCTURES: OPTICAL LIMITING, HOLOGRAM RECORDING AND SWITCHING OF LASER BEAM"

Dr. Oscar Iglesias - confirmed

Departament Física Fonamental, U. Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Prof. Jose Manuel Calleja - confirmed

Dept. Física de Materiales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco , Madrid , Spain

" OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF InAs/AlAs SELF-ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS"

Dr. Aline Auroux - confirmed

Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse, CNRS, VILLEURBANNE Cedex, FRANCE

" Preparation and Characterization of binary oxide catalysts containing ceria coupled with group III (B, Al , Ga ,In) oxides"

Dr. Milan Vlajic

Centre for Manufacturing of Advanced Ceramics and Nanomaterials, Queens University, Kingston , Canada

Prof. Felix Hong - confirmed

Dept. of Physiology Wayne State University , Detroit , Michigan , USA

"NANOTECHNOLOGY BEYOND MINIATURIZATION: INSPIRATION FROM BIOLOGY"

Prof. Toshiaki Makabe - confirmed

Keio University , Yokohama , Japan

"NUMERICAL MODELING OF RF MAGNETRON SPUTTERING WITH METALLIC OR DIELECTRIC TARGET"

Dr. Bruno Viana - confirmed

LCAES-ENSCP, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

"High efficiency of lutetium silicate scintillators, C e -doped LPS and LYSO Crystals for Medical Applications"

Prof. William MacKnight

Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts , Amherst , USA

Dr. Osamu Umezawa - confirmed

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yokohama National University , Hodogaya, Yokohama , 240-8501, Japan

"ECOMATERIALS IN THE GLOBAL ECO-SOCIETY: PRESENT SITUATION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS"

Prof. Robert R. Matheson

Dupont

Prof. Miroljub Dugic - confirmed

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kragujevac , Serbia and Montenegro

"A unified decoherence-based model of microparticles in a solution"