Adriatic School on Nanoscience – ASON-1
 
Hotel Dubrovnik Palace, Dubrovnik (September 19 – 23, 2010)
 
Programme
 
  Sunday, September 19, 2010
 
   
09.00 - 16.00 Registration (9th floor)
   
16.00 - 18.00 Round Table: The potential of nanoscience and nanotechnology in a country's economic growth and development (Mare II, III, Conference Room)

Panelists: Radomir Žikić, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia; Milorad Milun, Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia; Mauno Harju, Jyväskylä Innovation Ltd; Jyvaskyla, Finland; Paul Seidler, IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland

Moderator: Danica Ramljak, Director General of the Ruđer Bošković Institute
   
19.00 - 19.30
Opening ceremony (Mare I Conference Room)
   
19.05 Moderator: Ms. Barbara Kolar, Croatian Television, HRT
   
19.10
Opening remarks
   
19.30 - 20.00
Keynote lecture, Paul Seidler, IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland
   
20.00 - 21.00 Dinner with entertainment program: Little Lindjo
   
   
  Monday, September 20, 2010 (Mare I Conference Room)
 
   
07.30 - 08.45 Registration
   
08.45 - 09.00 Introduction: Danica Ramljak, Director General, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia,
Hrvoje Zorc, School Chair, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
   
09.00 - 10.30 Nanoscience: Fundamentals and basic properties
(Ulrich Hohenester, Institut für Physik, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria)
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
11.00 - 12.30 Nanoscience: Fabrication and characterization methods
(Harald Plank, nstitute for Electron Microscopy and Fine Structure Research, University of Technology, Graz, Austria)
   
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
   
14.00 - 15.30 From atoms to nanoscale
(Matti Manninen, Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland)
   
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
   
16.00 - 17.30 Biological physics and soft materials
(Ilpo Vattulainen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
   
17.45 - 18.45 Oral poster presentations (I)
   
18.45 - 20.00 Poster session (I)
   
20.00 - 22.00 Dinner
   
   
  Tuesday, September 21, 2010 (Mare I Conference Room)
 
   
08.30 - 10.00  Quantization in two-dimensional metallic systems
(Milorad Milun, Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia)
   
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee break
   
10.30 - 12.00 Carbon-based nanosystems
(László Forró, Institute of Physics of Complex Matter, Lausanne, Switzerland)
   
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch
   
16.00 - 19.00 Excursion
   
   
  Wednesday, September 22, 2010 (Mare I Conference Room)
 
   
08.30 - 10.00 Dispersions of nanoparticles
(Nikola Kallay, Faculty of Science at the University of Zagreb, Croatia)
   
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee break
   
10.30 - 12.00 Molecular systems self-assembly
(Olli Ikkala, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland)
   
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch
   
13.30 - 15.00 Supramolecular approach to nano-structured systems
(Mladen Žinić, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia)
   
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break
   
15.30 - 17.00 Life at the nanoscale
(Simon Scheuring, Research Director, Institut Curie – Research UMR-CNRS 168 Paris, France)
   
17.00 - 18.00 Oral poster presentations (II)
   
18.00 - 19.15 Poster session (II)
   
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