Discussion Leader, Dunbar Birnie, III, University of Arizona

Roger French, DuPont "Near Field Optics of Resonant Scattering in Particulate Systems"

Judith Wijnhoven, Universiteit van Amsterdam, "Ceramic photonic crystals made by self assembly"

Discussion Leader: Robert Cook, University of Minnesota

Randy Hay, Wright-Patterson AFB "Brittle and Ductile Deformation Associated with Interfaces in Ceramic Fibers, Coatings, and Composites"

Stephen J. Bennison and Anand Jagota , Dupont Central Research "Mechanical Behavior of Layered Ceramic-Polymer Microstructures"

Charles Ahn, University of Geneva, "Epitaxial Ferroelectric Heterostructures : Writing Electronic Nanofeatures and Electrostatic Modulation of High Tc Superconductivity"

Introductions for the Invited Posters

Invited Poster Sessions

Calculations of properties from first Principles

• Christian Ellsaesser and Sibylle Koestlmeier, Max Plank Institute, Stuttgart "Ab-initio calculations of near-edge structures in electron-energy-loss spectra for metal-oxide ceramics"
• Andrew Rappe, Univ. of Pennsylvania "Ferroelectric Materials: A Modern Perspective"
• Stefano Fabris, Tony Paxton and Mike Finnis, School of Maths and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast, " The tetragonal to cubic phase transition in zirconia "

The Status and Future of ceramic Engineering Education

• Dale Niesz, Rutgers University, "CerE programs"
• Jennifer Lewis, University of Illinois, "Ceramics specializations within MSE"
• Kevin Trumble, Purdue University, "General MSE programs"

Microscopic response in complex systems

• Venkata Vedula, Sandia Albequerque, "Predicting Microstructural-Level Residual Stresses and Crack Paths in Ceramics"
• Urs P. Schönholzer, René Hummel, Ludwig J. Gauckler, "Fabrication of Defined Micron-Scale Ceramic Surface Features"
• Yoed Tsur and Clive A. Randall Center for Dielectric Studies, Materials Research Laboratory The Pennsylvania State University " The Role of Amphoteric Dopants in Barium Titanate Based Devices "
• Alexey V. Lukashin " Use of layered double hydroxides as a new route to prepare nanostructured ceramic materials"
• J. Erlebacher, M. J. Aziz, M. B. Sinclair, J. A. Floro, E. Chason, Div. Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University "Kinetics of Formation and Decay of Nanoscale Structures on Si(001)"

Discussion Leader: Ilhan Aksay, Princeton

Marjoliene van der Meulen, Cornell "Mechanics in Skeletal development, Adaptation and Disease"

Sandra Burkett, MIT, "Inorganic-Organic Interfaces in the Synthesis and Performance of Bioceramic Materials"

Moderator: Ronald Kerans, Wright-Patterson AFB, Rowland Cannon, LBL

Debators:

• Tony Evans, Princeton
• Edwin Fuller, NIST
• Peter Gumbsch, Max Plank
• Brian Cox, Rockwell

Discussion Leader , Joachim Maier, Max Plank Inst. for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Oliver Kienzle and M. Ruhle, Max Planck Inst. "Grain Boundary Segregation in Strontium Titanate and its Relation to Space Charge Layers"

Bryan Huey, Oxford Univ. "In situ Probes of Interface Potential and Local Electric Fields and Relation to Macroscopic Properties in Oxides"

Julia Hsu, University of Virginia "Microstructure defects in bicrystal substrates and their influence on YBa2Cu3O7 grain boundary junctions"

Discussion Leader: Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT

Steve Semancik, NIST "The Use of Micro Machined Array Platforms for Tuning Oxide-Based Gas Sensing Materials"

Tom Shaw, IBM "Fundamental Issues and Practical Problems Associated with the Use of Barium Strontium Titanate films for DRAM capacitors"

Moderators: Arthur Heuer, Martin Harmer

• Terry Michalske "Integrated Microsystems: Let's not miss the boat again" (abstract)
• Fernando Ponce "The Nitride-Semiconductor Revolution in Lighting Technologies" (abstract)
• David Wilcox "Integration of radio frequency (RF) circuit functions in three dimensional ceramic structures" (abstract)
• Martin Devenney "Combinatorial Chemistry and Ceramics" (abstract)

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