2004: Frontiers of Nanoscience

9th Japanese-German Symposium

Jointly organized by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.

Date: May 14–15, 2004
Venue: Halle (Saale), Congress Centre Rotes Ross

PROGRAM

May 14, 2004

13:30 Welcoming Remarks
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Menkhaus (Chairman, Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.)

Convener: Prof. Dr. Andreas Schlachetzki (TU Braunschweig)
14:00 The Quantum World Unveiled by Electron Waves
Prof. Dr. Akira Tonomura (Central Research Lab. of Hitachi Ltd.)
14:45 Nanoscope Building Blocks from Polymers, Metals and Semiconductors
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knoll (Director, MPI for Polymer Research)
15:30 Coffee Break

Convener: Prof. Dr. Andreas Schlachetzki / Dr. Achim W. Hassel
16:00 Nano Optics beyond the Diffraction Limit
Prof. Dr. Satoshi Kawata (Osaka University and Riken)
16:45 Sight-seeing Tour Halle
19:30 Reception and Dinner

May 15, 2004

09:00 Instruments of Funding German-Japanese Scientific Exchange:
Joint Presentation by AvH, DAAD, DFG, MPG (325 MB)
List of Programmes and Corresponding Web Links (68 KB)
Presentation by JSPS (625 KB)
09:30 Nanostructures – à la Carte
Dr. Margit Zacharias (MPI of Microstructure Physics)
Abstract Zacharias (204 KB)
10:15 Coffee Break

Convener: Dr. Achim W. Hassel (MPI für Eisenforschung)
10:45 Challenges of Bio-nanotechnology
Prof. Dr. Masuo Aizawa (President, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Presentation Aizawa, part 1 (992 KB)
Presentation Aizawa, part 2 (556 KB)

Convener: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ertl (University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
11:30 Nanotechnology: Convergence and Integration
Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordmann (TU Darmstadt, Institute of Philosophy)
12:15 12.15   Lunch
13:30 13.30   Annual Assembly, Deutsche Gesellschaft der JSPS-Stipendiaten e.V.
13:30 13.30   Sight-seeing tour to Wittenberg
15:00 15.00   Sight-seeing tour to Wittenberg

Ausschnitte aus einem Interview mit Dr. Margit Zacharias und Prof. Dr. Masuo Aizawa, aufgenommen während des Symposiums und eine Woche später gesendet im Deutschland-Radio Köln im Magazin “Forschung aktuell”: Interview (MP3-Datei, 3,4 MB, 3:45)