Plenary Lectures

Claude COHEN-TANNOUDJI

Nobel Laureate in Physics

Collège de France and
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, FRANCE

Lecture Date: Monday, 2 July 2007
Lecture Time: 09:45 to 10:30 hrs

“Manipulating Atoms with Light”

Subra SURESH

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Lecture Date: Monday, 2 July 2007
Lecture Time: 11:00 to 11:45 hrs

"Nanotechnology and Materials Science at the Intersections of Engineering, Biology and Medicine"

Barry SHARPLESS

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), La Jolla, California, USA

Lecture Date: Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Lecture Time: 08:30 to 09:15 hrs

"Orthogonal Reactivity"

Richard H. FRIEND

Cavendish Laboratory
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Lecture Date: Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Lecture Time: 09:15 to 10:00 hrs

"Organic Electronics: Interfaces, Heterojunctions and Semiconductor Device Engineering"

H. Robert HORVITZ

Nobel Laureate in Physiology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Lecture Date: Wednesday, 4 July 2007
Lecture Time: 08:30 to 09:15 hrs

"Cell Suicide: Programmed Cell Death in Development and Disease"

David LANE

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, SINGAPORE

Lecture Date: Wednesday, 4 July 2007
Lecture Time: 09:15 to 10:00 hrs

"Drug Discovery in the p53 Pathway"

R. Stanley WILLIAMS

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA

Lecture Date: Thursday, 5 July 2007
Lecture Time: 09:15 to 10:00 hrs

"Computing at the Nanoscale will Employ Different Physics and Logic Operations"

Sumio IIJIMA

Meijo University & AIST/Research Center for Advanced Carbon Material, Nagoya, Japan

Lecture Date: Friday, 6 July 2007
Lecture Time: 08:30 to 09:15 hrs

"Nano-Carbon Materials: their Fundamentals and various Applications including Nano-biotechnology"

Anthony K. CHEETHAM

International Center for Materials Research
University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Lecture Date: Friday, 6 July 2007
Lecture Time: 09:15 to 10:00 hrs

"Hybrid Inorganic-organic Materials and their Applications"