Topical Sessions (Tentative)

Three Topical Sessions will be held along with the other sessions. In each session, cutting-edge topics are presented by the invited speakers leading the field. The Topical Sessions are open for poster presentation only.

Graphene
Organizer.........................Y. Awano (FUJITSU)

• Kostya S. Novoselov (Univ. of Manchester)
  Physics and Applications of Graphene
• Hiroki Hibino (NTT)
  Local work function measurements of epitaxial few-layer graphene
• Chuhei Ohshima (Waseda Univ.)
  Novel Preparation Method of a Self-standing Graphene Sheet
• Tsuneya Ando （Tokyo Inst. of Tech.）
  Exotic electronic properties of graphene and its multi-layers
• Michiko Kusunoki （Nagoya Univ.）
  Formation of uniform carbon nanotube films and graphene on SiC
• Mizuhisa Nihei （MIRAI-Selete(Fujitsu)）
  Multilayer Graphene for interconnect applications
• Hiroyuki Kageshima （NTT）
  First-principles Study on Epitaxial Graphene Formation on SiC (0001) Surfaces

Bio-MEMS
Organizer.......................H. Fujita (Univ. Tokyo)

• Babak Amir Parviz (Univ. of Washington)
  Selef-assembled micromedical systems
• Young-Ho Cho (KAIST)
  SPR Sensor Chips with Polymer Nanogratings
• Shoji Takeuchi (Univ. of Tokyo)
  MEMS based lipid bilayer formation
• Hidetoshi Kotera (Kyoto Univ.)
  Development of Bio/Nano hybrid platform technology for measuring cell functions and regenerative medicine
• Shuichi Shoji (Waseda Univ.)
  Cell Function Analysis Tools Fabricated by MEMS and Nanotechnology
• Yoshinobu Baba (Nagoya Univ.)
  Nanobiodevice for single biomolecule and single cell research

Nano-Tribology
Organizer....................N. Sasaki (Seikei Univ.)

• C. Mathew Mate (Hitachi GST)
  The Importance of Nanoscale Meniscus Formation During High-Speed Sliding Contacts
• Franz J. Giessibl (Univ. Augsburg)
  Forces and dissipation on the atomic scale
• Koji Miura (Aichi Univ. of Education)
  World of ultralow friction created by carbon family
• Jian Ping Gong (Hokkaido Univ.)
  Friction of hydrogels: from nano to macro
• Masaru Suzuki (Univ. of Electro-Communications)
  Sliding friction of helium films adsorbed on graphite
• Takayuki Nishizaka (Gakushuin Univ.)
  Direct Observation of Function of Motor Proteins and their Interaction with Ligands at Single Molecular Level