NIT Workshop Schedule | Abstracts | Location | Overview S C H E D U L E 8:30 - 9:00 am Sign-in 9:00 - 9:30 am Opening remarks President Birgeneau, University of Toronto Complex Materials for Telecommunication and Nanotechnology 9:30 am Nanotechnology for Networks: Merging bottom-up self-assembly with top-down engineering design Professor Ted Sargent Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 10:00 am Surpassing the Diffraction Limit with a Planar Left-Handed Transmission-Line Lens Anthony Grbic and George V. Eleftheriades Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 10:15 am Electrophoretic deposited nano-structured thin films for ceramic integration Ms. Juan Li University of Tokyo 10:30 am Coffee break 10:55 am Electron-beam irradiation of Ge-doped silica for the fabrication of optical devices Dr. Sonia Garcia-Blanco Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 11:10 am Dynamic deformation behavior of sp2 -bonded boron nitride nano-array on an atomic scale Dr. Chihiro Iwamoto Materials Engineering, University of Tokyo 11:25 am Size-tunable electroluminescence from nanocomposite material at telecommunication wavelength Frederick Chang Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 11:40 am Organic IR Light Emitters Xiaodong Feng Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto 11:55 am Nanometer-scale pattern transfer using ion implantion Naomi Matsuura Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto 12:30-1:45 pm Lunch Complex Materials for Manufacturing and Biotechnology 1:45 pm Hydroxyl capacity, Basicity and electronic band structure of acceptor-doped proton conducting oxides Prof. Shu Yamaguchi University of Tokyo 2:00 pm Issues in Thermal Spray: Effect of Density Variation during phase Change on Splat Shapes Mehdi Raessi Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto 2:15 pm Thermodynamic study of solidification refining of silicon with Si-Al melts Takeshi Yoshikawa University of Tokyo 2:30 pm Effect of thermal exposure on stress distribution in TGO layer of EB-PVD TBC Toru Tomimatsu Materials Engineering, University of Tokyo 3:00 pm Coffee break 3:20 pm Protein-Based Supramolecular Architectures: Controlling Self-Assembly at Molecular Interfaces Professor Christopher M. Yip Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry / Biochemistry Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto 3:50 pm The Mechanism of Isothermal Expansion of the Simple DNA Repeats: Application to the Synthesis of the Various Biomaterials Hiroyuki Kurihara University of Tokyo 4:05 pm Exciting new material for fixing fractured bones Scott Ramsay IBBM/Materials Science and Engineering 4:20 pm Selection of an active enzyme using phage display on the basis of catalytic activity in vivo Takashi Taki Chemistry and Biotechnology, University of Tokyo 4:35 pm Biomaterials for guided nerve regeneration Thomas Freier Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto 4:50 pm Wrap up Dean Tas Venetsanopoulos 5:00 - 7:00 pm Reception at Faculty Club, University of Toronto Nortel Institute for Telecommunications Bahen Centre for Information Technology 40 St. George St. University of Toronto