IX INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL "NICOLÁS CABRERA"

FRONTIERS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:

" MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS "

Miraflores de la Sierra, Residencia La Cristalera,16-20 September 2002

DIRECTOR:

J.J. Sáenz (ICM " Nicolás Cabrera ", UAM)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE :

A. Correia ( CMP-Cientifica )

A. García-Martín ( Univ. Karlsruhe)

P. A. Serena ( ICMM, CSIC)

Secretary: L.S. Froufe-Pérez (UAM)

SPONSORED BY:

Fundación BBVA

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

PHANTOMS (EU-IST)

Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología 

OBJECTIVES

 This summer school aims to introduce some relevant topics in molecular electronics and nanostructures to young physics and chemistry graduate students.

 Our aim is to provide a broad forum of discussion of recent problems in this field in a way accessible and useful to young students.

PROGRAM

SPM and molecular properties

Carbon Nanotubes

Molecular materials

Molecular devices

Modelling

Industrial perspectives

There will be two tutorials on different topics:

Introduction to SPM methods (training with two working AFMs)

Introduction to Ab initio methods in Molecular Electronics (training with specific software)

LECTURERS

Arturo Baró (UAM, Spain)

Jean-Philippe Bourgoin (CEA, Saclay, France) 

Eugenio Coronado (UV, Spain) 

Juan Carlos Cuevas (TFP Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany) 

Antonio M. Echavarren (UAM, Spain) 

Peter C. Eklund (PSU, USA) 

Ricardo García (IMM-CSIC, Spain)

Julio Gómez-Herrero (UAM, Spain)

Carlos González (NIST, USA) 

Uzi Landman (GEORGIA TECH, USA)

Stuart Lindsay (ASU, USA) 

Robert M. Metzger (Univ. Alabama, USA) 

Christophe Mingotaud (Univ. Paul Sabatier, France) 

Vladimiro Mújica (UCV,Venezuela) 

José Onuchic (UCSD, USA) 

Pablo Ordejón (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain) 

Juan José Palacios (UA, Spain)

Ron Reifenberger (Purdue, USA) 

Concepció Rovira (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain) 

Christian Schoenenberger (Basel, Switzerland)

Giacinto Scoles (Princeton, USA) 

Tomas Torres (UAM, Spain) 

Kang L. Wang (UCLA, USA) 

Wolfgang Wenzel (INT-FZ, Karlsruhe, Germany) 

Victor Zhirnov (SRC, USA) 

Nikolai Zhitenev (LUCENT Tech., USA) 

Chongwu Zhou (USC, USA)