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Lecture Series
 
Schedule of Lectures - Academic Year 2009-2010
 

About the Lectures

9 February 2010 - 5h-7hpm (Auditorium IMEC)
Prof. Marc Van Rossum, IMEC and K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Nanotechnology and its impact on society

16 February 2010 - 5h-7hpm (AVNet, EMM Lecture)
Dr. Henny Zandbergen, TNW, Delft, The Netherlands
In situ High Resolution Electron Microscopy

23 February 2010 - 5h-7hpm (AVNet, EMM Lecture)
Dr. Julie Müller, Solvay, Brussels, Belgium
HSE approach in the field of Nanotechnology

2 March 2010 - 5h-7hpm (AVNet, EMM Lecture)
Samuel Lara, Avila, Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden
Electronics at the molecular scale

9 March 2010 - 5h-7hpm (Auditorium IMEC)
Prof. Bob Puers, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
MEMS for biomedical implants

16 March 2010 - 5h-7hpm (AV Net, EMM Lecture)
Prof. Shlomo Yitzchaik, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Chemical interfaces in neuroelectronic hybrids

23 March 2010 - 5h-7hpm (Auditorium IMEC)
Prof. Pieter Vanden Berghe, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Fluorescent techniques to study cellular processes: from microscopy to nanoscopy

30 March 2010 - 5h-7hpm (Auditorium IMEC)
Dr. Kris Verstreken, IMEC, Belgium
Electronics and cells: looking at the world from the perspective of a cell

20 April 2010 - 5h-7hpm (Auditorium IMEC)
Prof. Yves Dufrene, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Atomic force microscopy as a multifunctional molecular toolbox in nanobiotechnology

27 April 2010 - 5h-7hpm (AV Net, EMM Lecture)
Prof. Frank Jülicher, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Active processes in cells: from Single Molecules to Collective Dynamics

4 May 2010 - 5h-7hpm (AVNet, EMM Lecture)
Prof. Bernd Büchner, Leibniz Institute, Dresden, Germany
Nanotubes meet Magnetism

11 May 2010 - 5h-7hpm (AVNet, EMM Lecture)
Prof. Herman Nys, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Legal and ethical aspects of nanotechnology

18 May 2010 - 5h-7hpm (AVNet, EMM Lecture)
Prof. Jef Poortmans, IMEC and K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Linking Nanoscale to Gigawatts: nanotechnology in Photovoltaics

 
Schedule of Lectures - Academic Year 2008-2009
 

About the Lectures

17 February 2009 - 5h-7hpm
Dr. Carmen Bartic
Spin-injection, Spin-Torque Diode Effect and future

24 February 2009 - 5h-7pm
Prof. James A. Sauls
The Physics of Superconductors and Ferromagnets at the Nanoscale

3 March 2009 - 5h-7pm
Prof. Emile van der Drift
Tailoring reactive plasma's to nano-applications

24 March 2009 - 5h-7pm
Prof. Ronald Hanson
The ultimate nanoscience: control and application of the quantum behaviour of single particles

31 March 2009 - 5h-7pm
Prof. Geert Van Calster
Nanotechnologies and the law: Supporting innovation or stifling it ?

28 April 2009 - 5h-7pm
Dr. Erik Schaeffer
Nanomechanics of single biomolecules measured with optical tweezers

12 May 2009 - 5h-7pm
Dr. Frédéric Luizi
Carbon nanotubes, an on-going revolution or just an other hype? - Competing with the world, how can an SME attempt to defeat the big ones? The example of Nanocyl

19 May 2009 - 5h-7pm
Dr. Stefan Diez
Biomolecular Motors at Work: Nanoscopic tools to study their performance by optical microscopy

 
Schedule Of Lectures - Academic Year 2007-2008
 

10 October 2007 - 5h- 7:30pm
Yoshishige Suzuki
Spin-injection, Spin-Torque Diode Effect and future

12 of February 2008 - 5h - 7:30pm
Prof. Victor Moshhalkov
Nano-superconductors: from fundamentals to applications

19 of February 2008 - 5h - 7h30pm
Prof. Gianaurelio Cuniberti
Modeling molecular junctions: pitfalls and caveats in understanding quantum transport mechanisms at the molecular scale

11 of March 2008 - 5h - 7h30pm
Dr. Zoran Konkoli
Diffusion Controlled Reactions and Living cells

18 of March 2008 - 5h - 7h30pm
Dr. Stephan Grill
Transcription by RNA Polymerase II

8 of April 2008 - 5h - 7h30pm
Dr. Sven Rogge
The transistor - From Schockley, Bardeen, and Brattain to single molecules and atoms

6 of May 2008 - 5h - 7h30pm
Prof. Redrik Höök
QCM and Nanoplasmonic Sensing of Cell Membrane Mimics

13 of May 2008 - 5h - 7h30pm
Dr. Hans-Georg Braun
The impact of military research on nanotechnology

Details of the programme, abstracts and curriculum vitae of the speakers (Word)

Guidelines for the EMM Report (Word)

 
Schedule Of Lectures - Academic Year 2006-2007
 

Wednesday, 21 February 2007 - 5.30-7.30pm
Prof. Anatoly Zvezdin, General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia and K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Spin, charge and spintronics : beyond the horizon of Si-based electronics

Wednesday, 7 March 2007 - 5-7pm
Prof. Jan M. van Ruitenbeek, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Simple molecules as benchmark systems for molecular electronics

Tuesday, 13 March 2007 - 5-7pm
Prof. Eva Olsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Functional nanostructures and In-Situ Dynamic Manipulation on the Nanoscale

Wednesday, 21 March 2007 - 5-7p
Dr. Ulrich Braun, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Very Small Particles and very Big Questions - Nanotechnology as a Matter of Philosophical Ethics

Wednesday, 18 April 2007 - 5-7pm
Prof. Andreas Schmidt-Ott, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands
Particles as Building Blocks in nanotechnology

Wednesday, 25 April 2007 - 5-7pm
Dr. Ralf Seidel, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Step-by-step : unravelling the mechanism of the cellular machinery using single molecule methods

Wednesday, 9 May 2007 - 5-7pm
Dr. Tsjalling Swierstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Do we need nano-ethics?

Tuesday, 22 May 2007 - 5-7pm
Prof. Owe Orwar, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Nano-bio Field

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Schedule of Lectures - Academic Year 2005-2006

Wednesday, 14 December 2005
Nynke Dekker, Kavli Institute of NanoScience, TU Delft , The Netherlands
Is more knowledge always a good thing? An overview of DNA research

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Wednesday, 15 February 2006
Professor Geert Van Calster, Instituut voor Milieu- en energierecht, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Regulating nanotechnology: within the law or beyond it?

Wednesday, 8 March 2006
Prof. Johan De Tavernier, Centrum voor Wetenschap, Techniek en Ethiek, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Ethical aspects of nanotechnology

Wednesday, 15 March 2006
Professor Per Delsing, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Single Charge Tunneling

Wednesday, 29 March 2006
Professor Lieve Goorden, STEM, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Addressing societal aspects of nanotechnological research: role of scientists

Wednesday, 19 April 2006
Professor Göran Wendin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Nanotechnology for future electronics: “more of Moore” and “beyond Moore”

Wednesday, 3 May 2006
Jörg Naumann, Hygienemuseum, Dresden, Germany
Nano and society

Wednesday, 17 May 2006
John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Nanoethics: Assessing the Nanoscale from an Ethical Point of View.