Micromachine Summit
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Micromachine Summit Program

Sunday, May 1

Pre-Conference Tour: University of Texas at Arlington's Automation Research & Robotics Institute

1:30 - 5:00
Registration 5:00 - 9:00

"Legends" Cocktail Reception: Bruce Kirchhoff - The SBIR Program in Commercialization

Bruce Kirchhoff, Distinguished Professor of the New Jersey Institute of Technology will be the keynote reception speaker on the topic of the U.S. Government's SBIR program which has been emulated by governments worldwide. He will describe how the SBIR legislation evolved and was passed during his tenure as Chief Economist of the U. S. Small Business Administration and his subsequent research that demonstrated the importance of new technology firms to economic growth.

6:00 - 9:00
Monday, May 2
Registration opens 7:00 - 9:00
Introductions 8:30 - 8:45
USA (Gaitan)
8:45 - 9:00
Canada (Gale)
9:00 - 9:15
Latin America (Fernandez)
9:15 - 9:30
Australia (Chaffey)
9:30 - 9:45
Israel (Klein)
9:45 - 10:00
Break 10:00 - 10:30
Japan (Shimoyama)
10:30 - 10:45
China (Zhou)
10:45 - 11:00
Korea (Cho)
11:00 - 11:15
Taiwan (Lee)
11:15 - 11:30
Singapore (Lu)
11:30 - 11:45
India (Koul)
11:45 - 12:00
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00
EU (Beernaert)
1:00 - 1:15
Benelux (van den Berg)
1:15 - 1:30
France (Bigler)
1:30 - 1:45
Germany (Zengerle)
1:45 - 2:00
Break 2:00 - 2:30
UK (Lawes and Tolfree)
2:30 - 2:45
Swiss (de Rooij)
2:45 - 3:00
Nordic (Jakobsen)
3:00 - 3:30
Italy (Dario)
3:30 - 3:45
Discussion 3:45 - 4:15
Dinner 6:00 - 9:00
Tuesday May 3
Registration opens 7:00 - 8:00
Opening Remarks 8:00 - 8:15
Session: Techno-Historical (25 minutes each)
Mike Douglass - Texas Instruments on DLP Commercialization
Bob Sulouff - Accelerometers
K. Aoyagi - Toward Industrialization of MEMS/Micromachine Technologies
Albert van den Berg - Microfluidics
Tom Cellucci - Micro to Nano
Jing-Tang Yang - TBA
8:15 - 10:30
Break 10:30 - 11:00
Session: Institutes and Companies (15 minutes each)
Frans Kampers - Nanofood
T. Shimoyama - Tech Challenges toward Capsule Endoscopes
N. Fabricius - The Fusion of MNT at Karlsruhe
H. Ogata - MNT at Mitsubishi Corp.
11:00 - 12:00
Lunch - There will be a Chief Delegates Meeting during the Lunch Hour 12:00 - 1:00
Session: Strategy 1:00 - 2:45
P. Kozodoy - Science Policy and International Cooperation
1:00-1:15
S. Neylon - Lessons learned transferring from University to Industry
1:15-1:30
H. Pedersen - Micro and Nano Manufacturing in 7th Euro Framework
1:30-1:45
G. Beardmore - Bio Initiative in the UK
1:45-2:00
Wally Lopez - Nanotechnology in Asia
2:00-2:15
Steve Walsh - Micro/Nano Roadmapping
2:15-2:30
S. Achenbach - Starting High Aspect Ratio
2:30-2:45
S. Bryant - BioMEMS Opportunities
2:45-3:00
Break 3:00-3:30
Session: Industry Groups (15 minutes each)
MANCEF (C. Eijkel)
MIG (E McDevitt)
NEXUS (G. Menozzi)
IVAM (C. Neuy)
ITRI (M. Tsai)
3:30-4:45
Discussion and Closing Statements 4:45-5:15
Trains to Barbecue Dinner (Round 'Em Up) 6:00
Barbecue - West End, Dallas 6:30 - 9:00
Wednesday, May 4
Bus to Texas Instruments 8:30 - 9:00
Tour of Texas Instruments 9:00 - 10:00
Bus to Zyvex 10:00 - 10:30
Tour of Zyvex 10:30 - 11:30
Bus to University of Texas at Dallas 11:30 - 12:00

Tour of University of Texas at Dallas

The University of Texas at Dallas is opening its NanoTech Institute for a behind-the-scenes tour lead by Dr. Anvar Zakhidov, associate director and Dr. Steven Collins, manager of research programs. Not only will you hear about the international research team of physicists, chemists, biologists, ceramicists, metallurgists, and working engineers to solve problems, you will be able to see the research in action. Dr. Collins will show the group the wet chemistry area where the research team does coagulation and dry nanotube fiber spinning. Visitors also will view our physics and materials characterization laboratories where we will focus on the different thermal analysis, mechanical properties testing, and spectroscopic techniques which we use to characterize our nanostructured materials. Dr. Zakhidov will be highlighting the clean-room where visitors can see our state of the art system for depositing organic layers for organic light emitting diodes, solar cells, and other advanced devices. This is an excellent opportunity to take a seriously look at one of UTD's premier research institutes.

12:00 - 1:00
Bus to Renaissance Hotel 1:00 - 1:30
Free time 1:30

Updated: 26 April 2005