MACAN Partner Meeting, July 25-28, 2010, Bohinj, Slovenia
PROGRAM
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Arrival | |
18:00 |
Poster setting |
19:30 |
Dinner |
20:30 |
Introducing the “out-of-the-box” concept (Wayne Kaplan & Dominique Chatain) |
20:50 |
Recipes for Innovation and Problem Solving (Gil Perlberg, Ceronyx) |
Monday, July 26, 2010
An Exercise on “Bridging the Gap” via Scientific Role Exchange
QUESTION: How can we understand why Cu films have poor adhesion to TaN?
Continuum experts TEAM (15) will address the problem from an atomistic direction:
Discussion Leaders: |
E. Rabkin, P. Imrich |
Team Participants |
W.C. Carter, D. Chatain, G. Dehm, W.D. Kaplan, C. Ow-Yan, T. Detzel, U. Eisele, |
G. Perlberg, S. Curiotto, O. Even-Zur, K. Matoy, B. Rashkova, M. Yildizhan |
Atomistic experts TEAM (16) will address the problem from a continuum direction:
Discussion Leaders: |
M. Gulgun,M. Drozdov |
Team Participants |
B.C. Carter, C. Elsaesser, W. Jaeger, D. McComb, A. Recnik, C. Scheu, G. Solorzano |
T. Dennenwaldt, M. Gokhan Eskin, M. Mendoza, C. McGilvery, H. Meltzman, J. Winterstein, K. Zagar |
08:00 |
Presentation of the teams CE & AE |
08:30 |
Discussions within the teams |
10:00 |
Coffee break |
11:00 |
Presentation of the results of the discussion (team CE) |
11:30 |
Presentation of the results of the discussion (team AE) |
12:00 |
Conclusions |
12:30 |
Lunch |
14:00-18:00 |
Networking Opportunity: Discussions of the morning exercise in small groups |
19:00 |
Dinner at Vogel |
21:30 |
Return to the hotel followed by evening discussions on practical wetting |
Tuesday, July 27
Young Scientist Presentations
6 presentations by young scientists (30+30 minutes): Each talk should include (1) a general presentation of the topics of the talk in the framework of the MACAN; and (2) end by addressing questions which may be debated during the discussion.
7 short poster presentations (10 minutes): Each short talk should include a 5 minute general presentation of the topic of the poster in the framework of the MACAN followed by 5 minutes to introduce the poster itself.
08:00 |
Stefano Curiotto, Orientation Relationships of Copper on Sapphire, CNRS, Marseille, France |
09:00 |
Hila Meltzman, Surfaces & Interfaces in the Ni-Al2O3 System, Technion, Haifa, Israel |
10:00 |
Coffee Break |
10:30 |
Catriona McGilvery, Understanding Amorphous to Crystalline Phase Transformations in (HfO2)x(SiO2)1-x Thin Films, Imperial College, London, UK |
11:30 |
Teresa Dennenwaldt, TEM Investigations on Thin FexOy Flms on Al2O3, University of Munich, Germany |
12:30 |
Lunch Break |
15:00 |
Boriana Rashkova, Interface Structure of Epitaxially Grown VN-TiN Layers on MgO Substrates, Erich Schmid Institute, Leoben, Austria |
16:00 |
Jonathan Winterstein, Structure and Chemistry of Grain Boundaries in Doped Ceria, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA |
17:00 |
Coffee Break |
17:30 |
Poster Presentations |
Miri Drozdov, Equilibrium Shape of Nanometric Holes, Technion, Haifa, Israel | |
Murat Gokhan Eskin, ELNES of Strontium Aluminate Phosphors to Understand Phosphorescence Behavior, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey | |
Orit Even-Zur, Morphology and Properties of Carbon Nanotube Turfs Grown on Various Ceramic Substrates, Technion, Haifa, Israel | |
Peter Imrich, TEM Analysis of Dislocations in Micron Sized Cu Tensile Samples, University of Leoben, Austria | |
Kurt Matoy, Interface Fracture Toughness Determination in Small Dimensions, Competence Center for Automotive and Industrial Electronics Villach, Austria | |
Martin Mendoza, Mechanical and Electrical Characterization of Cu-CNT Nanocomposites, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
Melike Yildizhan, ELNES of Phases in the Li2O and TiO2 System, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey | |
Kristina Zagar, Self-Assembly Phenomenon in SrTiO3 Tubules, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
20:00 |
Dinner |
21:30 |
Posters & Wetting |
Wednesday, July 28
Business Meeting
08:00 |
MACAN financial and partner status (Simon van Dam) |
09:00 |
Status on: |
Summer School (Gerhard Dehm); Conferences (Dominique Chatain); Exchange (Christina Scheu); Dissemination (Wayne Kaplan) | |
10:00 |
Concluding Summary |
10:30 |
Coffee and departures (lunch will be available at 12:00 for those departing in the afternoon). |