Bohinj, July 2010

MACAN Partner Meeting, July 25-28, 2010, Bohinj, Slovenia

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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).