Presenters: Partial List of Speakers

Henry I. Smith
"Nanopatterning, a Key Technology in Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Applications"

Director of the Nanostructures Laboratory at MIT. Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the APS, AVS, MRS, OSA and Sigma Xi. He is the recipient of the Cledo Brunetti Award of the IEEE and the Baccus Award of SPIE ; President of Principia Technology Group. Professor Henry I. Smith is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he directs the NanoStructures Laboratory (NSL). His research includes nanofabrication, electronic and photonic devices, and novel applications of nanostructures. He and his co-workers are responsible for a number of innovations in nanostructures technology and applications including: comformable-photomask lithography, x-ray lithography, the phase-shift mask, the attenuating phase shifter, spatial-phase-locked e-beam lithography, achromatic-interference lithography, spatial-frequency doubling and coherent-diffraction lithography, immersion photolithography, zone-plate-array lithography, interferometric alignment, graphoepitaxy, subboundary entrainment, templated self-assembly, and a variety of quantum-effect, short-channel, single-electron, nanomagnetic, photonic-crystal and microphotonic devices.

Dr. Edwin L. Thomas
"Applications of Nanotechnology: Experiences from MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology"

Founding director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. Previously was associate head for DMSE and director of the Program in Polymer Science and Technology. He founded and served as co-director of the Institute for Interface Science and was head of the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering. Founding Professor of Principia Technology Group. Polymers provide a versatile materials platform for a number of exciting nanotechnologies. We focus our efforts on self-assembly and co-assembly of block copolymers and various nanoparticles as well as on 2D and 3D interference lithography to realize structures on the nano to microscale for optical and mechanical applications. Block copolymers provide opportunities for many advanced technologies including quantum dot/polymer photonic band gap materials. Prof. Thomas' group synthesizes and processes systems with supramolecular structure and studies the relationships between various physical properties and microstructure using a variety of scattering methods (WAXS, SAXS, including in situ synchrotron studies) and microscopies (TEM, SEM, AFM, laser scanning confocal microscopy, hot stage polarizing). Noncrystalline, liquid crystalline, quasicrystalline, and crystalline systems are investigated. The Thomas Group is particularly concerned with the interplay of symmetry and emergent nanocomposite properties. Photonic band gap and phononic band gap structures are being explored to create novel acusto-optical interactions.

Dr. Carl V. Thompson
"Templated Self-Assembly of Nanomaterials "

"SMA Fellow in the Singapore-MIT Alliance Program and Co-Chair of the Program for Advanced Materials for Micro- and Nano-Systems in the Singapore-MIT Alliance. Served on the Materials Research Society (MRS) Council, was the President in 1996. He currently chairs the Program Development subcommittee of the MRS Program Committee. President of Foundation Principia. He is currently the Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science & Engineering. Professor Thompson spent the 1990-91 academic year at the University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, where he was awarded a United Kingdom Science and Engineering Research Council Visiting Fellowship. He spent the 1997-98 academic year at the Max-Plank Institute fur Metallforschung in Stuttgart and received a research award for Senior U.S. Scientist from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation. Professor Thompson's research is carried out in affiliation with the MIT Microsystem’s Technology Laboratory and the MIT Materials Processing Center, as well as the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He has organized a number of MRS symposia and co-chaired the Spring 1991 MRS meeting. Professor Thompson worked briefly for U.S. Steel and General Electric and has been a consultant for a number of microelectronics companies, including IBM and DEC

Dr. Francesco Stellacci
"Applications of Nanotechnologies in Energy Storage. Supramolecular Materials and Nanolithography"

"Prof. Stellacci is Finmeccanica Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the MIT. Professor Stellacci's research interests are in nano-science and nano-technology, specifically in the synthesis, characterization and nano-patterning of metal nanoparticles. These particles consist of a small metallic core (~3 nm) coated with a self-assembled monolayer of a mixture of tailor-made organic ligands. The main technological goal is the fabrication of nanoparticle-based devices, such as transistors and nano-waveguides that could be used as sensors for biologically relevant molecules or as active components in the next generation of electronic or optical computing machines. Modern nano-lithography techniques based on the use of Scanning Probe Microscopy (such as AFM and STM) are the main tool that enables the fabrication and integration of these complex devices. The main scientific effort is in the understanding of the complex interfacial relationship between organic molecules and metallic nanocrystals. The challenge is to understand and control how the nature of the energy levels of the organic ligands can modulate the properties of the metallic quantum dot and of the whole nanoparticle.

Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang
"Applications of Nanotechnologies in Energy Storage"

Kyocera Prof. of Ceramics. Founder, A123 Systems.SB Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, 1980
ScD Ceramics, MIT, 1985. Prof. Chiang's research focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced inorganic materials and related devices. Current topics include new cathode and anode materials for lithium ion batteries, a collaborative project modeling microstructure-dependent transport phenomena in electrochemical devices, development of new high strain piezoelectric and electrostrictive ceramics, and the continuous growth of single crystal piezoelectric fibers for electromechanically active composite structures. The stability and defect chemical properties of interfaces in inorganic materials is studied theoretically and experimentally.

Dr. Javier Martí
"Director of the Nanophotonics Technology Center (UPV), Chair of Communications Department, UPV - University of Valencia. Director of Nanophotonics Technology Center. Besides his teaching and research profile, he has a strong entrepreneurial character.

D. Pedro Gil Alburquerque
"Principia Technology Group & the Innovation Challenge"

"Executive Vice-President and co-founder of Principia Technology Group, Pedro Gil began his professional career as a broker in the company ACF Madrid, prior to entering investment banking at the BisfBank in the area of mergers and acquisitions, supervising a fund with over 17 holdings. At 27 he joins the Telefónica group, at 30 he becomes General Manager of Marketing in Telefonica Rio Grande do Sul, and then he becomes CEO of TPI Telefónica (Yellow Pages) in Brazil, and again CEO of Assist Telefónica in Brazil. He becomes Executive Vice-President of Cable and Wireless Panamá and President of CM America Publicidad.

D. José Luis Sánchis
Co-President of Principia Foundation & Strategic Partner of Principia Technology Group, Mr. Sanchís is PhD. Law and Economics, recognized expert on Marketing and PR, he has directed more than a hundred electoral campaings in sixteen diferent countries. He has published five books and more than a hundred articles. World President of the International Association of Political Consultants. Member of the world's council of the International Association of Public Relations, 6 Golden World Awards, Prize Americas 2000 of Americas Consulting.

Dr. Ignacio Gonzalez Loscertales
"Electrified coaxial jets for material processing: basics and applications"

Ph.D. from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Yale University in 1995, where he worked for five years on the fundamentals and applications of the electrosprays under the guidance of Profs. Fernández de la Mora and John B. Fenn (Novel Price in Chemistry, 2002). Since 1994 he has been working in the field of electrosprays and aerosol related techniques at Málaga University (Spain). Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Málaga University 1997-99. He founded the research group ANUMA (Nanometric Aerosols at Málaga University) in 2000. Reviewer of Industrial and Engineering Projects at ANEP-CICYT (the Spanish National Science Foundation). Won the Smoluchowski International Award to Young Researchers (European Aerosol Association) in 2003. Founder of Yflow SL in 2001, a spin-off company interested in employing micro and nano-fluidics to generate micro and nano particles and nanofibers with core-shell structure via electro-hydro-dynamics

Prof. Fernando Briones
"Nanotechnology at the IMM- CSIC "

PhD in Physics by University Complutense of Madrid, he is active in the fields of Solid State Physics and Nanotechnology. Expert in the processes of micro and nano fabrication, pioneer in the development of Molecular Beam Epitaxy technology of compound semiconductors and its applications in optoelectronics, magnetic and magneto-optic nanostructures. He has published over 250 papers in SCI journals, obtained 10 patents and supervised 16 Ph.D. theses. His experience as Project Manager covers 15 R&D national projects, 9 European projects, participation in international networks and coordination of INTAS programs. He has been visiting scientist at Max-Planck Institute-Munich, HP Labs, USA, in the University of Colorado-Boulder, NTT Labs, Tokyo, and Samsung’s research labs in Korea. He is Professor of Research at the National Center of Microelectronics since 1989, between 1988 and 1992 has been Coordinator for the Physics and Technology Area of CSIC and from 1995 to 2005 Director of the Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid-CNM. In 2005 he obtained the Jaime I Prize for Novel Technologies and has been elected Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.

D. Juan Martinez Barea
"High Tech Entrepreneurship in the South, is it possible?"

Mr. Barea has the Chair in Innovation and Regional Competitiveness in the Instituto Internacional San Telmo, where he teaches entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness to MBA students and public executives. He is Advisor of the Andalusian Minister of Innovation for the development of strategies for technological development of the region. He advises general managers in strategy, launching and development of new ventures, and venture capital. He has an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specialized in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and a Master in Economics from Ecole Centrale Paris (France).

Prof. Fernando Palacio
"Molecule-based Magnets, a Novel Source of New Nanotechnologies"

Institute of materials science of Aragon. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) - University of Zaragoza. Director of the Group of Excellence TERMOMAG. Coordinator of industrial integration and tecnology transfer in the European Network of Excellence MAGMANet.

Mr. F. Javier Ruiz
"The incorporation of Nanotechnology to the Spanish business organizations technological plans"

Business Strategy and Innovation Director, Socintec – Azertia. In the last five years he has been involved in many projects devoted to the understanding, promotion and development of nanotechnologies, both at the company and policy levels such us development of a roadmap in nanocatalysis for a Spanish chemical company, a feasibility analysis for the development of a new nanocarbon fibre to be applied within and outside the automotive sector for a Spanish tier 1 automotive supplier, a strategic plan for a new center of excellence for the development of nanotechnologies in one Spanish region, or the definition of NANOBASK2015, the strategic plan for the business development of nanosciences in the Basque Country. He has written several papers and has participated in many conferences and seminars. He is now a lecturer in ESIDE (the Engineering Faculty of the University of Deusto) in product engineering.