Scaling
Down to a Nano-Materials World
Challenges for 21st Century Scientists and Engineers
Monday December 1 to Thursday December 4 2003
Speakers
- Grahame
Cook
Deputy Secretary
Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST)
Overseas Plenary Speakers:
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Professor Helmuth Möhwald
Director, Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany -
Professor Toyoki Kunitake
Director, Spatio-Temporal Function Materials Research Group, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken), Japan -
Professor William Ducker
Virginia Tech, USA - Professor
Louis Brus
Columbia University New York, USA -
Professor Ryong Ryoo
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea -
Dr Stephen Haubold
CEO, Nanosolutions, Germany - Professor
Peter Cummings
Vanderbilt University USA - Professor
Peter Dobson
Oxford UniversitY United Kingdom
Australian Invited Speakers:
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Professor Max Lu
University of Queensland - Dr
Calum Drummond
cap-XX Ltd NSW Australia - Professor
Frank Caruso
Federation Fellow, The University of Melbourne -
Professor Steven Prawer
The University of Melbourne - Professor
Paul McCormack
Advanced Nano Technologies Pty Ltd - Mr
Chris Warris
Australian Academy of Science Canberra Australia - Dr
Terry Turney
CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology - Associate
Professor Paul Mulvaney
The University of Melbourne - Professor
Barry Muddle
Director of NanoVic -
Professor Matt Trau
University of Queensland -
Professor Peter Hudson
Scientific Director, CRC for Diagnostics Health Science & Nutrition, CSIRO - Professor
Tom Healy
The University of Melbourne Australia
Grahame Cook
has almost 30 years experience in the Australian Public Service. His current
position is Deputy Secretary in the Department of Education, Science and
Training (DEST). His responsibilities include oversight of the Science,
the Research, Analysis and Evaluation, Information Services and Procurement,
Assurance and Legal Groups.
Grahame's previous position was as Group Manager of the Science Group
within DEST, which he took up following the transfer of the science function
under the Machinery of Government changes in November 2001. Prior to his
transfer to DEST, Grahame was Head, Innovation and Science Division, Department
of Industry, Science and Resources from January 2001.
Grahame was previously First Assistant Secretary, Forests and Olympics
Division and Head, Sydney 2000 Games Coordination Task Force, in the Department
of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, where he coordinated the Commonwealth
Government's activities in support for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic
Games.
In 1996 Grahame headed the Secretariat to the Small Business Deregulation
Task Force in the Department of Industry, Science and Tourism. He was
awarded a Public Service Medal for this work in 1997. Grahame was Australian
Public Service Fellow, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies,
University of London in 1989-91. His publications include The Future of
Antarctica: Exploitation Versus Preservation, and Australia and 1992:
The Nature and Implications of the Single European Market.
Grahame has a Bachelor of Economics degree from the Australian National
University.
Overseas Plenary Speakers:
Lou Brus has an undergraduate degree from Rice University and a PhD from Columbia University, both in Chemical Physics. His 1969 PhD thesis concerned gas phase photodissociation with Prof. Richard Bersohn. As a Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, he worked in the solid state and chemistry divisions of the Naval Research Laboratory (1969-1973). During this period he worked on gas phase chemical lasers, chemisorptive luminescence, and irreversible radiationless transitions. In 1973 he joined the chemistry and materials research area of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. In Bell Labs he worked at first on the internal dynamics of small molecules in rare gas solids (1973-1980) , and pump-probe transient Raman studies of short lived chemical intermediates(1980-1987). After 1987 he increasingly focused on nanocrystals made by chemical synthesis, and novel materials incorporating nanocrystals. During this period, near-field and confocal microscope methods were developed to record the luminescence of single molecules and nanocrystals at 23 C. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1996. In 1998 he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences. In 2001 he was awarded Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics by the American Physical Society. His present research interests include carbon nanotubes and organic electronics, local electromagnetic field enhancement, nanocrystal phase diagrams, and electric force microscopy.
Education
1973-1977 BS
degree from Seoul National University
1977-1979 MS degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
1982-1985 PhD degree from Department of Chemistry at Stanford University
Major field: heterogeneous catalysis (Advisor: Prof. Michel Boudart)
Professional
Career
1979-1982 Researcher at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
1986 Postdoctoral fellow at University of California at Berkeley Major
field: solid state NMR (Supervisor: Prof. Alex Pines)
1986-present: Assistant professor (1986-1990) associate professor (1990-1996),
and professor (1996-present) at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology 1994. 3 - 1995. 2 Visiting Professor in Prof. Russell Howe
group at the University of NSW
Recent International
Academic Activity
Council member of the International Zeolite Association (7/2001 -7/2007)
and International Mesotructured Materials Association (7/2002-7/2006)
Chairman of 3rd International Mesostructured Materials Symposium (7/2002)
Research Field and Interest Synthesis and physical chemistry of nanostructured
materials including mesoporous silica, mesoporous carbons, metal clusters,
nanowires, and inorganic-organic nanocomposites. Most notably, in recent
years, he has pioneered the synthesis of ordered mesoporous carbon materials
using mesoporous silica template.
Awards and Honors
Scientist of the Month Award by Korea Science & Engineering Foundation
(8/2001); Person of the year at KAIST (12/2001); Grand Prize for Academic
Achievement by Korean Chemical Society (4/2002)
Peter T. Cummings is the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He also holds the position of Distinguished Visiting Scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and is Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nanomaterials Theory Institute, part of the ORNL Center for Nanophase Materials Science. He is the recipient of many awards, including the 1998 Alpha Chi Sigma Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (its premier research award recognizing research achievement over the previous decade). He is an editor of the international journal Fluid Phase Equilibria, and the member of several editorial boards. Professor Cummings is internationally renowned for his research on computational molecular approaches to predicting physical properties in systems of fundamental and industrial interest, such as nanostructured materials, supercritical aqueous solutions, alkane fluids, polymer solutions and lubricants. He is the author of over 240 refereed publications and a frequent invited or plenary speaker at international conferences.
- Professor
Peter Dobson
Academic Director
University of Oxford University's Begbroke Science Park
United Kingdom
Peter Dobson graduated from Southampton University in 1965 (BSc Honours degree in Physics) and 1968 (PhD in Physics). He then went as a lecturer to Imperial College, London, and was appointed to a senior lectureship in 1981, and during this period his research was concentrated on surface physics, thin film growth and electron diffraction. In 1984 he joined Philips Research Laboratories as Senior Principal Scientist and worked on semiconductor growth by MBE. He was appointed to a University Lectureship and College Fellowship at the Queen's College Oxford in 1988. At Oxford, he assisted with setting up much of a new joint course of Engineering and Materials Science and his research moved into the areas of nanoparticles, nanostructures, optoelectronics and biosensors. In 1999 he spun-off a company, now called Oxonica, that specializes in making nanoparticles for a wide range of applications, ranging from sunscreens to fuel additives and bio-labels. In 2000, with colleagues in Chemistry, he spun-off Oxford Biosensors that makes a hand-held device based on enzyme-functionalized microelectrode arrays. He was appointed to his present position in August 2002 and has the responsibility of setting up several new research institutes that will combine University activities with company R&D, and facilitate the rapid transfer of technology. His current active research is in the design and utilization of multi-functional nanoparticles. Professor Dobson has now built a team of experts to develop new activities on Oxford University's Begbroke Science Park in the fields of Nanotechnology, Environmental technology, Aerospace and Automotive Technology and IT/Communications, and this team is fully integrated within the University departmental core activities, Business School and technology transfer company, Isis Innovation. He has had extensive experience of consulting for industry across a wide range of sectors and he has served on the Board of several companies.
Australian Invited Speakers:
Professor Max Lu currently holds the Chair of Chemical Engineering in Nanotechnology, and is Director of the ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Queensland. He is Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE). He was awarded the Australian Professorial Fellowship under the Australian Research Council's fellowship program in 2002. In 2003, he is awarded the Australian Federation Fellowship. He's co-authored more than 150 international refereed journal and over 100 conference publications, edited 3 books and holds 5 international patents. He has received a number of prestigeous awards including Young Researcher Award by IUMRS, Orica Award in 2001 by IEAust, IChemE, and RACI, Le Fevre Prize by Australian Academy of Science, and RK Murphy Medal by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. He has been invited as keynote and plenary speaker to more than 15 international conferences and serves on editorial boards of six international journals. Dr Lu is the Australia Research Council Expert advisory committee member.
Dr Calum Drummond. BSc(Ed), BSc (Hons1), PhD (Melb), FRACI C.Chem Calum was awarded a PhD in Physical Chemistry from The University of Melbourne in 1987. He is currently Vice President Research at cap-XX Pty Ltd and is responsible for all research and intellectual property issues. cap-XX is a Sydney-based start-up company that is commercialising supercapacitor technology. Prior to joining cap-XX in January 2001, Calum was a Senior Principal Research Scientist and the Program Leader for Specialty Chemicals and Environmental Technologies in the CSIRO Division of Molecular Science. His research interests are in the area of colloid and surface science, including application to energy storage and drug delivery. He has produced over 80 refereed papers in international journals, 7 patents, over 50 commercial-in-confidence reports for companies, and provided over 100 invited lectures and conference presentations. Calum has either acted as a consultant or alternatively worked on research and development projects with over 30 companies and industry support organisations. In 1997-1999 he was a member of the Executive Council of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI). In 1999 and 2000 he was a Board Member for the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Water Quality and Treatment. He is currently on the Advisory Board for the Australian Research Council (ARC) Special Research Centre in Particulate Fluids Processing located at The University of Melbourne. The calibre of his research has been recognised through the award of an ARC Federation Fellowship, an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, the inaugural R.J.W. Le Fevre Memorial Prize from the Australian Academy of Science, the RACI Rennie Memorial Medal, the RACI Applied Research Award, both the David Syme Research Prize and the Grimwade Prize in Industrial Chemistry from The University of Melbourne, and a Rothmans Foundation Fellowship. Calum is a Fellow of the Vincent Fairfax Ethics in Leadership Program run by the St. James Ethics Centre and a Fellow of the Williamson Community Leadership Program run by Leadership Victoria.
Frank. Caruso's research interests are in the areas of tailored colloidal systems, polymers at interfaces, protein architectures and nanocomposite thin films. He obtained his B.Sc. (Hons), first class, and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from The University of Melbourne, Australia (1989 and 1994). He went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the Division of Chemicals and Polymers, CSIRO, Melbourne, and then joined the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Berlin, Germany, as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in 1997. In 1999 he became Group Leader at the MPI. In 2002, he returned to The University of Melbourne (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) as Professor and Australian Research Council Federation Fellow. Apart from his fellowships, Prof. Caruso has been awarded numerous other prizes for his scientific achievements, including the MPICI award for research excellence (1998), a research award for young achievers in the biosciences from the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (1999), the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Rennie Memorial Medal (2000) and the Royal Society of Chemistry-RACI Exchange Medal (2001). He is a member of the International Advisory Boards of the Wiley-VCH journal Advanced Functional Materials and the American Chemical Society journal Chemistry of Materials. To date, his scientific work has been published in over 115 refereed journal papers and several book chapters, and has yielded 10 patents.
Paul McCormick is Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Powder Technology Pty Ltd and Advanced Nano Technologies Pty Ltd, companies that are commercialising novel nanopowders and nanopowder products. Prior to joining APT and ANT, Dr McCormick was Professor of Materials Engineering and Director of the Research Centre for Advanced Mineral and Materials Processing at the University of Western Australia. Professor McCormick is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He has published over 300 scientific papers in the areas of nanopowders and advanced materials.
Chris Warris is currently a Research Officer with the Australian Academy of Science. He has degrees in Science and Engineering from the University of Western Australia. He has done research with the Special Research Centre for Advanced Minerals and Materials Processing (SRCAMMP) at UWA, worked as a materials engineer with Western Power Corp, and as a design engineer at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), before taking up his current position with the Academy of Science to carry out a nanotechnology benchmarking project.
- Dr
Terry Turney
Co-Director
CSIRO Nanotechnology Centre & Science
Director
Novel Materials & Processes
CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology
Thomas W. Healy was Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Melbourne from August 1977 - 1998, Dean of Science 1985 - 1990, and, Director of the ARC Advanced Minerals Products Special Research Centre. His research interests include colloid and surface chemistry, aqueous interfaces, interfacial spectroscopy, ultra-small colloidal particles, stability of colloidal dispersions and the chemistry of mineral processing.
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