ICREA Workshop on Phonon Engineering 2010

Exploration, understanding and control of physical phenomena at the nanometer scale have received intense attention in recent years. Although substantial efforts in the past has been directed towards understanding the physics of electrons and photons, the understanding of, and applications related to, phonon physics and the coupling between phonons, electrons and photons has been lagging behind.

This workshop will be an opportunity to share the knowledge in the area of nm-scale thermal management, energy transport and information processing devices. Its key target is to gather specialists from the international phonons community to debrief the main fields in phonons-related areas expected to have strong technological and scientific impacts in the near and long-term future.

Topics

• Energy Conversion
• Micro to Nanoscale thermal management
• Phononic crystals
• Photon-phonon interactions
• Electron-phonon interactions in low dimensions
• Phonons in Metrology and in Biology
• Coherent acoustic phonons and Phonon sources
• Phonon-polaritons transport

Programme

Attendance

• 75 Attendees
• 28 Presentations
• 28 Posters

Keynote

• Prof Alexander Balandin, University of California Riverside, USA
• Dr Garnett Bryant, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
• Prof Gang Chen, MIT, USA
• Prof Dr Thomas Dekorsy, University of Konstanz, Germany
• Prof Luca Gammaitoni, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Istituto Naz. di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
• Prof Anthony Kent, University of Nottingham, UK
• Dr Vincent Laude, CNRS, France
• Dr Bruno Michel, IBM Zürich, Switzerland
• Prof Jukka Pekola, Aalto University, Finland
• Prof Ali Shakouri, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
• Prof Dr Christian Thomsen, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Invited

• Dr Francesc Alsina, Institut Català de Nanotecnologia, Spain
• Prof Harold de Wijn, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
• Dr Stefan Dilhaire, CPMOH, University of Bordeaux, France
• Prof Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, IEMN, U Lille, France
• Prof Dr Juerg Dual, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Dr Alejandro Fainstein, Atomic Centre Bariloche, Instituto Balseiro, Argentina
• Prof Karl Joulain, University of Poitiers, France
• Dr Marcelo Kuroda, IBM T J Watson and Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,USA
• Dr Natalio Mingo, CEA-Grenoble, France
• Prof Franco Nori, Riken Institute for Physical and Chemical Research, Univ. of Michigan, USA
• Dr Mika Prunnila, Technical research Centre of Finland VTT, Finland
• Dr Christopher Soles, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
• Dr Jean-Louis Thomas, CNRS University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Paris 6, France
• Prof Gyaneshwar Srivastava, University of Exeter, UK
• Prof. Marisol Martin, IMM- Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid (CNM-CSIC), Spain
• Prof Pascal Ruello, Universite du Maine, France

Workshop Director

• Prof. Dr. Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres
  Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies, ICREA; Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, ICN

Local Committee

• Ms. Noemi Baruch - Technical Project Manager, Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology - ICN
• Ms. Ana de la Osa - Communications Officer Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology - ICN
• Prof. Dr. Alejandro Goñi - Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Barcelona-CSIC
• Prof. Dr. Jordi Pascual - Director Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology - ICN
• Prof. Dr. Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres - Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology - ICN

Scientific Program Committee

• Prof. Dr. Jouni Ahopelto - Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT, Finland
• Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Leburton - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Dr. Bernard Perrin, CNRS - University of Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie, France
• Dr. Sebastian Volz, - CNRS, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France