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ALC ’17
December 3 (Sun) – 8 (Fri), 2017
Aqua Kauai Beach Resort, Kauai, HI, USA
(Current date/time: October 12, 2018 / 14:15 JST)
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Invited Speakers

JSPS 141 Committee Award Lectures

Prof. Hans-Joachim FREUND (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society)
“The Surface Science of Catalysis and More, Using Ultrathin Oxide Films as Templates: A Perspective”
Prof. Wolf-Dieter SCHNEIDER (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society)
“A Small World”
Prof. Peter VARGA (CEITEC BUT)
“Artificially Controlled Graded Magnonic Structures on FeNi Films by FIB”

Tutorial Lecture

Prof. Chuhei OSHIMA (Waseda University)
“Extreme-High-Vacuum Technology and High-Energy-Resolution Electron Spectroscopy”

Plenary Lectures

Dr. Tetsuya ISHIKAWA (RIKEN)
“New Trends in Atomic Level Characterization with Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Lasers”
Prof. Yahachi SAITO (Nagoya University)
“Field Emission from carbon nanotube and graphene: Its Application and Related Phenomena”
Prof. Matthias SCHEFFLER (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society)
“Big-Data Routes for Atomic-Level Characterization of Novel Materials”

Invited Speakers

Prof. Michael ALTMAN (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
“Oxide Thin Film Growth for Application in Au Nanoparticle Catalysis”
Prof. Friedrich AUMAYR (TU Wien)
“Femtosecond Electronic Response of Graphene to the Strong and Localized Electric Field of a Highly Charged Ion”
Prof. Peter BAUER (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
“Electronic Stopping of Protons in Metals and in Metal Oxides”
Dr. Boklae CHO (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
“Vacuum Characteristics of Low-Carbon Steels and its Application to a Field Emission Electron Gun”
Prof. Wolfgang EBERHARDT (DESY)
“Research for the Energy System of the Future”
Prof. Karl-Heinz ERNST (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology)
“Helical Molecules at Surfaces: Selective Chemistry and Molecular Machines”
Prof. Franz GIESSIBL (University of Regensburg)
“Influence of External Forces on the Vibrational Modes of an Adsorbed Molecule”
Prof. Thomas GREBER (University of Zurich)
“Taming 4f Electrons in Endohedral Single Molecule Magnets”
Prof. Torgny GUSTAFSSON (Rutgers University)
“Nano-Scale Ion Beam Analysis and Applications to Biological Systems”
Prof. Terumitsu HASEBE (Tokai University)
“Fluorine Incorporated Amorphous Carbon nano-coatings for Artificial Heart (Ventricular Assist Device)”
Prof. Tetsuya HASEGAWA (The University of Tokyo)
“N and O K-Edge Linearly Polarized X-Ray Absorption near Edge Structure of Ta-Based Oxynitride Thin Films”
Prof. Shuji HASEGAWA (University of Tokyo)
“Atomic-Layer Superconductors”
Prof. Michael HORN VON HOEGEN (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
“Optically Excited Structural Transition in Atomic Wires on Surfaces at the Quantum Limit: a Femtosecond Ultrafast Surface Electron Diffraction Study”
Prof. Ing-Shouh HWANG (Academia Sinica)
“High-Brightness Electron and Ion Sources Based on Thermally Stable Nanoemitters”
Prof. Aleksander JABLONSKI (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences)
“Parameterization of Quantitative Applications of Electron Spectroscopies”
Dr. Xiuguang JIN (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
“Development of High Performance Spin-Polarized Photocathode and Its Application”
Prof. Hee Jae KANG (Chungbuk National University)
“Applications of Electron Spectroscopy to Oxide Thin Film Devices”
Dr. Tadahiro KAWASAKI (Japan Fine Ceramics Center)
“Development of a New Cs-Corrector with Electrostatic Field Formed by Annular and Circular Electrodes”
Prof. Frank MEYER ZU HERINGDORF (University of Duisburg-Essen)
“Subfemtosecond Dynamics of Orbital Angular Momentum in Nanoplasmonic Spirals”
Dr. Kazuhide NAGASHIMA (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
“First 10 Million Years of the Solar System Revealed by Micro-Analyses of Primitive Meteorites using SIMS”
Dr. Takamasa NONAKA (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.)
“Synchrotron Radiation-Based X-Ray Characterization of Li-Ion Battery”
Dr. Ichiro OHNISHI (JEOL Ltd.)
“Analytical and in-situ Applications using Aberration Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope”
Prof. Daniel PRIMETZHOFER (Uppsala University)
“Ion-Solid Interaction Studied by TOF-MEIS: from Electronic Excitations to Photon and Particle Emission”
Prof. Harald ROSE (University of Ulm)
“Prospects and Results of Aberration-Corrected Low-Voltage Electron Microscopy — the SALVE Project”
Dr. Andreas SCHMID (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
“Imaging and Tailoring Chiral Magnetism in Epitaxial Multilayers”
Prof. Claus SCHNEIDER (Research Center Juelich)
“A New Spin on Photoemission”
Prof. Toshio SEKI (Kyoto University)
“Ambient Secondary Ion Mass Analysis with MeV-Energy Heavy Ion”
Prof. Mitsutoshi SETOU (International Mass Imaging Center)
“Quantum Technology Based Life Science”
Prof. Shigeru SUZUKI (Tohoku University)
“Microscopic Distribution of Different Elements in Stainless Steels Analyzed by Bi Cluster TOF-SIMS”
Dr. Jun TAKAHASHI (Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation)
“Application of Atom Probe Tomography to Fundamental Issues of Steel Materials”
Prof. Sen TAKEDA (University of Yamanashi)
“Reductionism Converged into Artificial Intelligence: Mass Spectrometry Based-Diagnosis of Cancer”
Prof. Wen-Xin TANG (Chongqing University)
“Progress on Developing Ultrafast Spin-Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy”
Dr. Toshiaki TANIGAKI (Hitachi, Ltd.)
“New Visions by High Voltage Electron Holography”
Prof. Wolf WIDDRA (Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
“Photoemission and Double Photoemission with Femtosecond High-Harmonic Laser Radiation”
Prof. Roland WIESENDANGER (University of Hamburg)
“Bottom-Up Construction and Atomic-Level Characterization of Spin Chains on Superconducting Substrates for Topological Quantum Computation”
Prof. Yoshiteru YASUDA (HORIBA, LTD.)
“Introduction of Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy and its Applications”
Prof. Masaaki YASUDA (Osaka Prefecture University)
“Computational Study of Temperature Distribution in Electron-Irradiated Graphene”

Invited Speakers for Speciall Session
— Characterizations of Water at Surface and Interface —

Prof. Robert CARPICK (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Strong Effect of Water on Friction at the Nano Scale”
Prof. DaeWon MOON (DGIST)
“Investigation of Liquid Interface Structure with Ion Beam Analysis”
Prof. Hiroharu YUI (Tokyo University of Science)
“Vibrational Spectroscopic Study on the Phase Transition of Water in Nanospaces and at Interfaces”

Invited Speakers for Speciall Session
— 3D Atomic Visualization and Characterization of Functionally Active Site —

Prof. Charles FADLEY (University of California Davis)
“Determining Atomic and Electronic Structure in Complex Materials and Heterostructures with Element- and Site- Specificity”
Prof. Mikk LIPPMAA (University of Tokyo)
“Local Dopant Site Structure Analysis in Perovskite Titanates”
Dr. Tomohiro MATSUSHITA (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute)
“Principles of Atomic Resolution Holography and New Atomic Image Reconstruction Algorithm”
Prof. Geoff THORNTON (University College London)
“Atomic Level Structure of the Interface between Titanium Oxides and Liquid Water”
FOCUS JEOL ScientaOmicron Shimadzu
Hitachi High-Tech
HORIBA TSUJICON
Nano Science Science Laboratories Tokyo Electronics Pascal VIC International
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