Symposium Program

Friday, December 16, 2011
9:45-10:00
Life Hall
Opening Remarks
10:00-11:00
Life Hall   
Session A: Keynote Speech 1
"Social Contribution of Semiconductors"
Masao Fukuma (Semiconductor Industry Research Institute Japan(SIRIJ), Japan)
11:00-12:00
Life Hall
Session A: Keynote Speech 2
"Evolution of SOI CMOS Devices and Circuits for Low-Power/Low-Voltage SOC Applications"
James B.Kuo (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
13:00-14:00
Life Hall
Session A: Special Speech
"Kinetics of point-like defects in Si wafer induced by ion-implantation damage"
Kenji Taniguchi (Nara National College of Technology, Japan)
14:00-15:00
Life Hall
Session A: Invited Speech
"Inter-Chip Wireless Interconnect Technology and Its Application to Breast Cancer Detection"
Takamaro Kikkawa (Hiroshima University, Japan)
15:30-17:00
Room501-503
Poster Session
17:00-17:30
Life Hall
Take a commemorative photo.
17:30-19:30
Senri Room
Reception
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Session B

Science Hall
10:00-15:30
The Impact of Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductors on Future Power Electronic Systems
Leo Lorenz
(President, European Center for Power Electronics(ECPE), Germany) (Chairman)
Jose Millan (National Microelectronics Centre (CNM-CSIC), Spain)
Kevin Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science Technology, China)
Oliver Hilt (Ferdinand-Braun-Institute Berlin, Germany)
Ichiro Omura (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Masayuki Imaizumi (Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan)
Noriyuki Iwamuro (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
and Technology (AIST), Japan)
Yoshiharu Anda (Panasonic Corporation, Japan)
Session C-1

Room501-503
9:25-12:35
Advances in Neuroengineering IV
Chung-Yu Wu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Hsin Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Christoph Posch (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)
Yutaka Hirata (Chubu University, Japan)
Shigeo Sato (Tohoku University, Japan)
Session C-2

Room501-503
14:00-18:00
Nano-Sensing
Oscar Custance (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
Yousoo Kim (RIKEN, Japan)
Katharina J. Franke (Universität Berlin, Germany)
Markus Ternes (Max-Planck Institute, Germany)
Angelika Kühnle (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany)
Ken-ichi Morita (Osaka University, Japan)
Session D

Senri Room A (6F)
9:00-14:00
Advanced Optical Communication and its All-optical Signal Processing
Keith Blow (Aston University, UK)
William Shieh (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Hongwei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
Koichi Takiguchi (NTT Photonics Laboratories, Japan)
Hiroyuki Uenohara (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Yuji Miyoshi (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
Masatoshi Kagawa (Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Japan)
Session E

Life Hall
10:00-17:00
Energy Saving with Photonics
Hiroshi Amano (Nagoya University, Japan)
Junji Kido (Yamagata University, Japan)
Yusuke Mori (Osaka University, Japan)
Shin-ichi Nagahama (Nichia Corporation, Japan)
Susumu Noda (Kyoto University, Japan)
Takao Someya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
(alphabetical order)

Co-sponsored by Marubun Research Promotion Foundation
The Japan Research and Development Center for Metals
Division of Bulk Crystal Growth, The Japanese Association for Crystal Growth