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February 4th (Monday) <Amphitheater>
[Opening & Plenary Lecture] (Chair: Hajime Asahi)
12:00-12:20
Opening Remarks
Tomoji Kawai (Director of ISIR)

12:20-13:00
"Ferromagnetic semiconductors with high Curie temperature and unusual magnetic properties - the case of Gd-doped GaN"
Klaus H.Ploog (Paul-Drude-Institute)

13:00-13:40
"Photophysics and Light-Induced Antimicrobial Activity of ColloidalParticles Containing Adsorbed or Covalently Grown Cationic Conjugated Polyelectrolytes"
David G. Whitten (Univ.of New Mexico)

13:40-14:00
Break

[Molecule & Bio] (Chair: Yoshio Aso)
14:00-14:30
"New Faces of Small Molecules at π-Rich Interfaces"
Hiroyuki Isobe (Tohoku Univ.)

14:30-15:00
"Nanocomposites of Self-assembly of Linear π-Systems and Carbon Nanotubes"
A. Ajayaghosh (NIIST)

15:00-15:30
"Template Synthesis of Nano-Structured Carbons"
Takashi Kyotani (Tohoku Univ.)

15:30-15:50
Break & Group Photo

(Chair: Tetsuro Majima)
15:50-16:30
"Single-Molecule Protein Conformational Dynamics in Enzymatic Reactions and Cell Signaling"
H. Peter Lu (Bowling Green State Univ.)

16:30-17:00
"The Effect of Contacts of Binding Groups to Surface Gold Atoms on Single-Molecular Conductance of Dithiol Derivatives"
Masamichi Fujihira (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

17:00-17:30
"Bottom-up approach of an artificial Cell"
Tadashi Sugawara (Tokyo Univ.)

17:30-19:00 Poster Session

19:00-21:00 Banquet

February 5th (Tuesday) <Amphitheater>
[Spintronics & Electronics] (Chair: Yoichi Ando)
9:00-9:40
"Spin current-induced domain wall motion in (Ga,Mn)As"
Hideo Ohno(Tohoku Univ.)

9:40-10:10
"Nano Structure of Compound Semiconductors for Optic + Electronic Application"
Tae Won Kang (Dongguk Univ.)

10:10-10:40
"Spin current in nanostructures -- Spin Hall effect and quantum spin Hall effect --"
Shuichi Murakami (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

10:40-11:00
Break

(Chair: Yoichi Yoshida)
11:00-11:30
"Large Magnetoresistance of Spin Origin in Cuprates and Cobaltates"
Yoichi Ando (ISIR)

11:30-12:00
"Computational nano-spintronics"
Stefan Blügel (Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

12:00-13:00
Lunch

(Chair: Kazuhiko Matsumoto)
13:00-13:30
"Graphene Sheets: Low Temperature Growth and their Characterization"
Hiroshi Tokumoto (Hokkaido Univ.)

13:30-14:00
"STM/STS Studies of C60:pentacene interfaces"
Daniel Dougherty (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

14:00-14:30 "Challenges for continuous nano-device scaling from viewpoint of variability"
Hidenobu Fukutome (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)

14:30-15:00
Break

[Nano Bio] (Chair: Hiroyuki Noji)
15:00-15:30
"Innate recognition of viruses by plasmacytoid dendritic cells"
Akiko Iwasaki (Yale University School of Medicine)

15:30-16:00
"Structural Basis of Bacterial Multidrug Export"
Akihito Yamaguchi (ISIR)

16:00-16:10
Closing Remarks
Hajime Asahi (ISIR)