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Programme Summary PROGRAMME SUMMARY Monday 7th Tuesday 8th Wednesday 9th Thursday 10th Friday 11th 09:00 - 09:30 Opening 09:00 - 09:45 KN 2 : Richard Friend 08.00-10.00 Breakfast/Posters 08.00 - Breakfast/Posters 10.00 09.30-4.30 Icons of 09:30 - 10:15 KN1 : Anthony 09:45 - 10:15 PL12 Mike Toney Wellington Tour Leggett 10:15 - 10:40 Morning tea 10:15 - 10:40 Morning tea 10.30-11.00 PL23 : Sally Brooker 10.15 -11.00 KN4: Neil Ashcroft 10.40 - 11.10 PL1 Brian Korgel 10.40 - 11.10 PL13 Jeff Tallon 11.10 - 11.40 PL2 David Williams 11.10 - 11.40 PL14 Dragan 11.00 - 11.30 PL24 Jas Pal Badyal 11.05 -11.35 Invited Parallels x 8 Damjanovic PA17 – PA24 11.40 - 12.10 PL3 Gordon 11.40 - 12.10 PL15 Tomas 11.30 - 12.00 PL25 Tadafumi 11.35 -11.50 Contributed Orals x 8 Wallace Jungwirth Adschiri 11.50 -12.05 C17 – C24 12.10 - 1.00 Lunch 12.10 - 1.00 Lunch 12.00 - 1.00 Lunch 12.05 -12.20 1.00 - 4.30 Snapshot of 1.00 - 1.30 PL4 Richard Blaikie 1.00 - 1.30 PL16 Franz Laermer 1.00 - 1.30 Invited Parallels x 8 12.20 - 1.15 Lunch Wellington Tour PA1 – PA8 1.15 - 1.45 Invited Parallels x 8 1.30 - 2.00 PL5 Martin Green 1.30 - 2.00 PL17 Safa Kasap 1.30 - 1.45 Contributed Orals x 8 PA25 –PA32 1.30 - 7.00 Registration Open 1.45 - 2.00 C1 – C8 and 1.45 - 2.00 Contributed Orals x 8 2.00 - 2.30 PL6 Mary Ryan 2.00 - 2.30 PL18 Donald Morelli 2.00 - 2.15 Nanopore Session 2.00 - 2.15 C25 – C32 2.00 - 4.00 Workshop 1 - 2.15 - 2.30 2.15 - 2.30 Multidisciplinary 2.30 - 3.00 PL7 Rod Dunbar 2.30 - 3.00 PL19 Yung Woo Park 2.30 - 2.45 2.30 - 2.45 Collaborative 2.45 - 3.00 2.45 - 3.00 Research 3.00 - 3.30 Afternoon tea 3.00 - 3.30 Afternoon tea 3.00 - 3.30 Afternoon Tea 3.00 - 3.30 Afternoon Tea Ventures 3.30 - 4.00 PL8 David 3.30 - 4.00 PL20 Kathryn 3.30 - 4.00 Invited Parallels x 8 3.30 - 3.45 Contributed Orals x 8 Lockwood McGrath PA9 – PA16 3.45 - 4.00 C33 – C40 4.00 - 5.00 Workshop 2 - EU 4.00 - 4.30 PL9 Michael Cortie 4.00 - 4.30 PL21 David Deamer 4.00 - 4.15 Contributed Orals x 8 4.00 - 4.15 Materials- related 4.15 - 4.30 C9 – C16 4.15 - 4.30 COST Programme 4.30 - 5.00 PL10 Eric Le Ru 4.30 - 5.00 PL22 Sanjay Mathur 4.30 - 4.45 4.35 - 4.50 Closing Remarks/Prize giving 4.45 - 5.00 5.30 - 7.00 Welcome Drinks 5.00 - 5.30 PL11 Stuart Taylor 5.00 - 5.15 6.00 - 7.15 Public Lecture 5.15 - 5.30 Richard Friend 7.00 - 11.30 Conference Dinner TUESDAY 8 th FEBRUARY 2011 Michael Fowler Centre Auditorium Opening 09:00-9:30 Chair: Dr Tim Kemmitt KN1 :The Theory of Superconductivity: Ancient History and Modern Questions Sir Anthony Leggett 09:30-10:15 10:15-10:40 Morning tea in Renouf Foyer Chair: Prof Juliet Gerrard 10.40 11.10 PL1 The Electron Microscope as a Laboratory to Study Mechanical Properties and Impurity Diffusion in Silicon and Germanium Nanowires Professor Brian Korgel 11.10 11.40 PL2 Low Cost Instruments for Air Quality Measurement, based on Nanostructured Semiconducting Oxide Gas-sensitive Resistors Professor David Williams 11.40 - 12.10 PL3 Organic Bionics - Nanodimensional Cues for Nerve Cell Growth Professor Gordon Wallace 12:10 - 1:00 Lunch in Renouf Foyer Chair: Prof Shaun Hendy 1.00 - 1.30 PL4 Imaging with Light at Lengths Less than Lambda Professor Richard Blaikie 1.30 - 2.00 PL5 Advanced Photovoltaics: Generic Tandem or Nano-Engineered Hot-Carrier Cells? Professor Martin Green 2.00 - 2.30 PL6 In-situ Studies of the Aggregation and Dispersion of Peptide-functionalised Gold Nanoparticles Dr Mary Ryan 2.30 - 3.00 PL7 Three-dimensional Environments for Human Cell Culture and Tissue Engineering Professor Rod Dunbar 3:00-3:30 Afternoon tea in Renouf Foyer Chair: Prof John Lekner 3.30 - 4.00 PL8 Self-Assembled Silicon-Germanium Nanostructures for CMOS Compatible Light Emitters Professor David Lockwood 4.00 - 4.30 PL9 Plasmon Control with Hybrid Nanoparticles Professor Michael Cortie 4.30 - 5.00 PL10 Single Molecule Detection by Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: From Demonstration to Applications Dr Eric Le Ru 5.00 - 5.30 PL11 Selective Oxidation using Gold-based Nanoparticle Catalysts Dr Stuart Taylor WEDNESDAY 9 TH FEBRUARY 2011 Michael Fowler Cent re Auditorium 09:00 -09:45 Chair: Prof Pablo Etchegoin KN2: Electronics with Organic Semiconductors Sir Richard Friend 09:45 -10:15 PL12 The Influence of Microstructure in Organic Semiconductors on Charge Transport Dr Mike Toney 10:15 -10:40 Morning tea Session sponsored by AJ Park – The Clear Leaders in IP Chair: Greg West Walker 10.40 -11.10 PL13 Designing the Ideal High-Tc Superconductor Professor Jeff Tallon 11.10 -11.40 PL14 Origins of Electro-mechanical Coupling in Complex Oxides Professor Dragan Damjanovic 11.40 -12.10 PL15 Spintronics with Antiferromagnets Professor Tomas Jungwirth 12.10 - 1.00 Lunch Chair: Prof Joe Trodahl 1.00 - 1.30 PL16 Key Technologies Towards New MEMS Application Fields Dr Franz Laermer 1.30 - 2.00 PL17 Direct Conversion Flat Panel X-Ray Image Detectors: From Science to Commercialisation, and Selecting the Best X-Ray Photoconductor Professor Safa Kasap 2.00 - 2.30 PL18 Figuring the Merit of New Thermoelectrics Professor Donald Morelli 2.30 - 3.00 PL19 Carbon Electronics: The Supermagnetoconductivity in Polyacetylene Nanofibers and More Professor Yung Woo Park 3.00 - 3.30 Afternoon Tea Chair: Dr Bill Williams 3.30 - 4.00 PL20 Mixing the Soft with the Hard: Synthetic Biomineralisation Dr Kathryn McGrath 4.00 - 4.30 PL21 Nanopore Analysis of Nucleic Acids Professor David Deamer 4.30 - 5.00 PL22 Chemically Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanowires: Processing and Functional Applications Professor Sanjay Mathur 6.00 - 7.15 Public Lecture - International Y ear of Chemistry Launch Sir Richard Friend THURSDAY 10 FEBRUARY MFC Main Illott Theatre Civic 1 Civic 2 Lion Harbourview 1 Lionharbourview Civic 3 Square Affair 2 Auditorium 2 08.00 -10.00 Breakfast/Posters (Renouf Foyer) 10.30-11.00 Chair: Prof Jeff Tallon PL23: Iron(II) Triazole Complexes: Mono-, Di- and Tri-nuclear Spin Crossover (SCO) Complexes Professor Sally Brooker 11.00 -11.30 PL24 Multi-Functional Nanocoatings Professor Jas Pal Badyal 11.30 -12.00 PL25 Super Hybrid Nanomaterials Professor Tadafumi Adshiri 12.00 - 1.00 Lunch (Renouf Foyer) Nanoprobes and Advanced Nanolithography I Measurement and Nanobiology I Soft matter and Hybrid materials Spintronics and nanoengineering photovoltaics I modelling of biomolecular quantum transport phenomena in assembly advanced materials 1.00 - 1.30 PA1 R PA2 J Nelson PA3 D Melville C4.1 N Gaston PA5 V Gubala PA6 J Scott PA7 K MacKenzie PA8 M Governale Wiesendanger C4.2 E Vujasinovic 1.30 - 1.45 C1.1 Y Wan C2.1 J Hodgkiss C3.1 C Moore C4.3 D C5.1 B Kannan C6.1 L Domigan C7.1 S Iyer C8.1 O Klochan Schebarchov 1.45 - 2.00 C1.2 P Kowalczyk C2.2 N Tétreault C3.2 A Linden C4.4 A Tsuda C5.2 R Gandhiraman C6.2 E Samulski C7.2 J Johnston C8.2 J Wells 2.00 - 2.15 C1.3 O Mahapatra C2.3 JY Kim C3.3 J Foulkes C4.5 N Lund C5.3 T Le C6.3 M Williams C7.3 P Bishop C8.3 L Willems van Beveren 2.15 - 2.30 C1.4 J Ballard C2.4 S Lind C3.4 tbc C4.6 B Cox C5.4 M Booth C6.4 S Fielding C7.4 C Fonseca-Paris C8.4 R Caetano 2.30 - 2.45 C1.5 E Minot C2.5 P Wagner C3.5 A Shalav C4.7 K Kannappan C5.5 C Evans C6.5 R Peltier C7.5 A Ali C8.5 T Minnee 2.45 - 3.00 C1.6 C Laslau C2.6 MH Song C3.6 P Mehrotra C4.8M Lein C5.6 S Sinha C6.6 N Munro C7.6 M Welter C8.6 N Plank 3.00 - 3.30 Afternoon Tea (Renouf Foyer ) Nanobiology III Advanced Advanced materials Strongly correlated Nanobiology II Nanotubes Nanoclusters Organic optoelectronics photovoltaics II synthesis and materials properties I 3.30 - 4.00 PA9 L-C Wu PA10.1 G Conibeer PA11 M Bowden PA12 J Haase PA13.1 M Osinski PA14 M Baxendale PA15 A Terasaki PA16 H von Seggern 4.00 - 4.15 C9.1 R Cooney PA10.2 K Gordon C11.1 M Haranczyk C12.1 G Williams PA13.2 J Gerrard C14.1 J Hill C15.1 K Steenbergen C16.1 D Bhuiyan 4.15 - 4.30 C9.2 V Nock C11.2 J Kim C12.2 F Natali C14.2 T Dingemans C15.2 A Awasthi C16.2 N Tétreault 4.30 - 4.45 C9.3 K Penmetcha C10.1 S Albert- C11.3 K Graham C12.3 J Frantti C13.1 N Al-Salim C14.3 K Edgar C15.3 B C16.3 M Campoy-Quiles Seifried Assadollahzadeh 5.45 - 5.00 C9.4 J Evans C10.2 tbc C11.4 Z Jin C12.4 S Chong C13.2 T Clemons C14.4 ML Liao C15.4 D Belic C16.4 A Edgar 5.00 - 5.15 C9.5 B Wright C10.3 W Lee C11.5 M Gizdavic- C12.5 J Stephen C13.3 S Sinha C14.5 A Kaiser C15.5 E Pahl C16.5 N Lucas Nikolaidis 5.15 - 5.30 C9.6 J Fang C10.4 C Cruikshank CO11.6 S Moratti C12.6 M Lu-Dac C13.4 L Zhang C14.6 tbc C15.6 tbc C16.6 A Seeboth FRIDAY 11 th FEBRUARY MFC Main Illott Theatre Civic 1 Civic 2 Lion Harbourview 1 Lionharbourview Civic 3 Square Affair 2 Auditorium 2 08.00 – 10.00 Breakfast/Posters (Renouf Foyer) 10.15 - 11.00 KN4: Putting the Squeeze on Materials; Pressing Towards New Orderings - Professor Neil Ashcroft Nanoparticles Nanolithography Photovoltaics and New materials and Graphene Molecular Superconductivity Novel materials and nanowires: II energy conversion devices for materials and spectroscopy optical properties radiation imaging modelling and detection 11.05 - 11.35 PA17.1 Y Takeda PA18 J Liddle PA19 T Nann C20.1 H von PA21 V Skakalova PA22 P PA23 M Das PA24 K Smith Seggern Schwerdtfeger C20.2 M Bartle 11.35 - 11.50 C17.1 A C18.1 M Warner C19.1 J Schroeder C20.3 G Appleby C21.1 D Mollenhauer C22.1 S Telfer C23.1 E Talantsev C24.1 L Perander Gustafsson 11.50 - 12.05 C17.2 K Jasim C18.2 C C19.2 CK Poh C20.4 M Reid C21.2 K Mahelona C22.2 C Raston C23.2 MJ Van Bael C24.2 B Wylie-van Holzwarth Eerd 12.05 - 12.20 C17.3 C Jagadish C18.3 M Scholer C19.3 N Tétreault C20.5 S Raymond C21.3 H Fehske C22.3 A Hermann C23.3 N Strickland C24.3 B Ingham 12.20 - 1.15 Lunch (Renouf Foyer) Organic Plasmonics Frontiers in Spintronics and Spintronics materials Nanoelectronics Advanced materials Novel Semiconductor optoelectronics electron quantum transport and devices and novel devices synthesis & Materials microscopy properties (II) 1.15 - 1.45 PA25.1 MH Song PA26 Z Dong PA27.1 A Kirkland PA28 J PA29 R PA30 SY Lee PA31 J Downes PA32 M Allen Splettstoesser Wiesendanger 1.45 - 2.00 PA25.2 C Lee C26.1 J Lekner PA27.2 R Tilley C28.1 U Zuelicke C29.1 S Granville C30.1 S Hall C31.1 C Shearer C32.1 S Janssens 2.00 - 2.15 C26.2 J Fischer C28.2 3 A Micolich C29.2 M Azeem C30.2 M C31.2 M Reish C32.2 K Jasim Waterland 2.15 - 2.30 C25.1 J Quilty C26.3 M Hossain C27.1 S Bischof C28.
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