Sunday, August 19 evening (7.30 p.m.) | Microelectronic components and devices |
Discussion leader : D. Fournier
- D.P. Almond, Dept. of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Bath, U.K.
"Modulated optical reflectance applied to superconducting thin film microwave devices"
- P. Galtier, THALES-Thomson-CSF/LCR, Orsay, France
"Thermal measurement at submicron scales on power devices"
Monday, August 20 morning (9 a.m.) | Laser ultrasonics |
Discussion leader : P. Hess
- A. Mandelis, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
"Andrew C. Tam : Memories of the Man, the Scientist and the Friend"
- M.G. Somekh, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. University of Nottingham, U.K.
"Laser ultrasonic surface wave microscopy"
- B. Perrin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
"Picosecond ultrasonics"
- H.A. Schuessler, Texas A & M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas, USA
"Nonlinear propagation of laser-generated surface acoustic wave pulses in solids"
Monday, August 20 afternoon (4.30-6 p.m.) | poster session I |
Monday, August 20 evening (7.30 p.m.) | Phase transitions |
Discussion leader : J. Pelzl
- C.Y. Chao, Dept. of Physics, National Central University, Chung-li, Taiwan
"An ac differential calorimeter for measuring heat capacity of suspended liquid crystal films"
- M. Marinelli, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rome II, Italy
"The physical mechanisms of thermal conductivity in liquid crystals : what can we learn from photothermal phase transition studies?"
Tuesday, August 21 morning (9 a.m.) | Progress in inversion methodology |
Discussion leader : A. Mandelis
- S. Gull, Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge, U.K.
"Developments in maximum entropy and other Bayesian inversion techniques"
- J. Power, Dept. of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
"Recent approaches to the type III thermal wave inverse problem for joint depth recovery of thermal effusivity and optical absorption"
- M. Raynaud, Centre Thermique de Lyon, INSA Lyon, France
"Optimisation of experiments and parameters for estimation of thermophysical properties"
Tuesday, August 21 evening (7.30 p.m.) | Heat transport on small length and short time scales |
Discussion leader : G. Diebold
- G. Chen, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
"Heat conduction in low-dimensional structures"
- R. Carminati, Lab. D'Energétique Moléculaire, Ecole Centrale Paris, France
"The basic concepts of radiative heat transfer revisited at nanometric scale"
Wednesday, August 22 morning (9 a.m.) | Experiments on very small or very thin samples |
Discussion leader : T. Sawada
- S.E. Bialkowski, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, U.S.A.
"Photothermal lens spectrometry in micro- and nano-sized sample cells"
- J. Kitamori, Dept. of Applied Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Japan
"Photothermal techniques for on-chip microchemistry"
- P.M. Norris, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, U.S.A.
"Probing thin film thermophysical properties using femtosecond transient thermo-reflectance technique"
Wednesday, August 22 afternoon (4.30-6 p.m.) | poster session II |
Wednesday, August 22 evening (7.30 p.m.) | Novel techniques and instrumentation |
Discussion leader : L.D. Favro
- G. Busse, Institut für Kunststoffprüfung, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
"Elastic wave thermography for defect selective imaging"
- A. Hammiche, Department of Physics, Lancaster University, U.K.
"Near -field photothermal FTIR spectroscopy"
Thursday, August 23 morning (9 a.m.) | Biological and medical applications |
Discussion leader : P. Xiao
- R.J.D. Miller, Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto, Canada
"Mother Nature, quantum/continuum mastery and scaling"
- L. Wang, Biomedial Engineering Program, Texas A & M University, U.S.A.
"Ultrasound-mediated imaging : acousto-optical tomography and thermo-acoustic tomography".
- F.M. de Mul, Dept. of Appl. Physics, University of Twente, The Netherlands
"Photoacoustic monitoring and imaging of structures in tissue"
Thursday, August 23 evening (7.30 p.m.) | Chemical analysis and environmental applications |
Discussion leader : D. Bicanic
- H.A. MacKenzie, Dept. of Physics, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K
"A photoacoustic sensor for hydrocarbons in water"
- M. Franko, Laboratory of Environmental Research, Nova Gorica Polytech. Slovenia
"Thermal lens spectroscopy applications to environmental and food analysis"
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