NAMIS International Autumn School 2010
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

We are extremely happy to host the next NAMIS autumn school at IIS, Tokyo Japan. We look forward to meeting young researchers from the world over.

Would the representative of each NAMIS institutes confirm the following, and nominate up to five attendees per institute.

Please discuss with direction (Alain Bosseboeuf) if you need to send in more than five.

Information for Attendees

Core period

17th October - 23th October 2010

School period from the18th to the 22nd

Excursion and visit to a company in the Mt Fuji area (under negotiation, October 20th or 21st)

Access information

The school is held at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, campus Komaba II research campus. You will find all the information to reach the research campus here:
http://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access_e/access_e.html

From Shibuya: take the Inokashira Line (local train, not the express train) and stop at Komaba-Todaimae (5 minutes from Shibuya, 2 stations).

From elsewhere: find your way (metro, train etc...) using http://www.hyperdia.com/. The destinations' stations are Komaba-Todaimae (Inokashira line) or Yoyogi-Uehara (Odakyu line / Chiyoda line).

Arriving at Komaba-Todaimae: Take the stairs located at the head of the train. At the exit, turn right, walk under the railway and then follow the road until the reasearch campus (map on the link bellow). You will arrive at the East gate, the closest to the meeting place: Building An, 2nd floor, Convention centre. Go straight, and then enter the building on the left just before entering the pizzeria.

Address of the campus: 4-6-1 Komaba Meguro-Ku, Tokyo 153-8505.

Meeting place: Building An, 2nd floor, Convention centre. Please, refer to the map of the campus: http://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access_e/campusmap_e.html

Presentation

All attendees must give a poster presentation + one minutes oral presentation (resume of the poster), so please bring your posters(size arbitrary).

Please update (per institute) your poster titles if you have not done so. Please avoid sending poster titles per attendee. Thank you!

Travel expenses and local costs

Roughly speaking, all except airfare will be supported by the IIS.

1) We ask the airfare and travel expenses between the airport and the dormitory to be supported by the institute of origin.
2) Lodging in Japan from the 17th of October (check-in ) to the 23th of October (check-out) will be booked and payed by the IIS. The night of the 20th will be at Yamanaka Seminar House near Mount Fuji.
3) From Monday to Friday, all lunch and dinner will be organized and payed by the IIS (except for Tuesday and/or Thursday evening(s))
4) Schools, experiments and excursions will be payed by the IIS.
5) An extra outing may be planned. Participation fee pending.

Accomodation during the school

1) Check in at the Olympic Centre dormitory is from the 17th (Sunday). Please check out on the 20th. The night of the 20th will be spent at the Yamanaka Seminar House near Mount Fuji. Please check in again at the Olympic Centre on the 21st. Final check out is on the 23rd of October. Ample number of single rooms have already been reserved.

2) Lodging expenses at the dormitory (Olympic Centre), and Yamanaka Seminar House will directly be paid by the IIS, University of Tokyo. You need only to return your keys.

3) Direction to the Olympic Centre can be found at: http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/ The olympic centre is situated close to the Yoyogi Park and a 50m indoors swimming pool. You are welcome to bring clothes for physical activities and swimming.

We have already booked about 60 single rooms. Half of them are equipped with personal bathroom / shower and internet. The other half have shared showers and a shared lounge with LAN connections. For both cases, please bring your own LAN cable.

4) Clothing October in Japan is still warm, though evenings may be chilly, especially in the Mount Fuji district. A wind cheater is useful. Please also bring clothes for physical activities (eg. hikes, soccer) and swimming. A lake is situated at 1 minute walking distance from the Yamanaka Seminar House.

Important Final Notice Before you head for Japan

Accomodation before and after the school

For arrivals before the 17th, and departures after the 24th of October, we must ask you to book and pay for hotels yourselves. However, please stay at the Olympic centre during the core period, except for the case where the excursion involves an over-night stay elseware.

Meals

We will have banquets and get togethers on most nights. Lunch will be served from Monday to Friday of the core period. Please specify dietary requirements upon registration.

Accompanying persons

We are sorry but we can not accomodate accompanying persons in this school programme.

Program

Program (pdf) [update : 03/10/2010]

MONDAY, 18th October 2010

Time Program

ROOM

Day's Chair

08:00

08:30

Building An, 2nd floor, convention center

Teruo Fujii

Depart from Olympic center to IIS

Reception opens

08:30-09:15 (9:00,irregular start)
Prof. Yashiro, Director General
OPENING Address
09:15-10:00

Teruo FUJII
Integrated micro fluidic systems

10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:15 Hiroyuki Noji
Nano-MechanoChemistry of
Biomolecular Motors
11:15-12:00 Sunghoon Kwon
Encoded Particle Based Biochips: Color Barcoded Magnetic Particles and Self-Assembly
12:00-13:00  
13:00-13:45 lab visit Fujita lab, Toshiyoshi lab
14:00-15:00

Hiroyuki Fujita
MEMS nano hand with nano eye
obsevation for science and technology

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00

POSTER PRESENTATION (Foyer)
ORAL RESUME (2min/person)
Chair Dominique Collard

17:00 Open Questions
18:00-20:00 BANQUET (Foyer)
(in charge: Prof. Kohno)

TUESDAY, 19th 2010

Time Program

ROOM

Day's Chair

Convention center

Akihide HIBARA

08:30-09:15 Shouji TAKEUCHI
MEMS-based tissue
engineering
09:15-10:00 Yannick RONDELEZ
Reaction networks : the emergence
of complex dynamics from chemical
reactions
10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:15 Akihide HIBARA
Micro chemical system-onchip
11:15-12:00 Masakazu SUGIYAMA
Surface modification of 3D
structures with nanomaterials
12:00-13:00 LUNCH (Foyer)
13:00-13:45 visit Fujii lab, Takeuchi lab,
visit Kawakatsu lab, Kim lab
14:00-18:00

BIO EXPERIMENT
Yannick RONDELEZ
Tatshiro FUKUBA
Katsuo MOGI

or

Introduction to a mini robot (Foyer)
Dai Kobayashi
Hideki Kawakatsu
Beomjoon Kim

18:00-20:00

Informal gettogether (olympic centre)
in charge: PROF. KAWAKATSU

WEDNESDAY, 20th 2010

Time Program

ROOM

Day's Chair

Convention center / Excursion

Hiroshi TOSHIYOSHI / Dominique COLLARD

08:30-09:15 Hiroshi TOSHIYOSHI
RF and optical MEMS
09:15-10:00 Takashi KOHNO
Neuromorphic systems
for MEMS
10:00-10:30 COFFE BREAK
10:30-11:15 Yuji Suzuki
Energy Harvesting and Power MEMS
11:15-12:00 Excursion To a company Near Mont Fuji
12:00-13:00 Lunch box
14:00-

Company Visit, move to Naito seminar house
-
Beomjoon KIM
Nanowire for bio-sensor and its local temperature control
-
Dominique COLLARD
Biophysical studies with MEMS tools : Measure, Device and control / sensing
-
Yumi HIRANO
LIMMS Introduction

18:00 Dinner

THURSDAY, 21st 2010

Time Program
08:30-09:15 move from excursion to IIS by bus
10:00-10:30  
10:30-11:15  
11:15-12:00  
12:00-13:00 Lunch (foyer)
13:00-13:45 visit Fujii lab, Takeuchi lab,
visit Kawakatsu lab, Kim lab
14:00-18:30

Introduction to a mini robot (Foyer)
Dai KOBAYASHI
Hideki KAWAKATSU
Beiomjoon KIM

or

BIO EXPERIMENT
Yannick RONDELEZ
Tatsuhiro FUKUBA
Katsuo MOGI

18:00 Apero / free evening

FRIDAY, 22nd 2010

Time Program

ROOM

Day's Chair

Convention center

Shouji TAKEUCHI

08:30-09:15 Claude LUCAT (CNRS/IMS)
Screen printing for MEMS
09:15-10:00 Anne-Claire SALAÜN
Silicon nanowires-based devices: synthesis, surface functionalization for chemical and biosensing applications
10:00-10/30 COFFE BREAK
10:30-11:15 Noboru ISHIHARA
Integration of RF CMOS and MEMS
11:15-12:00 Jong-Mo SEO
Nano- and micro- devices in biomedical research:
Ideal vs. Real
12:00-13:00 Lunch (Foyer)
14:00-15:00 PROF Yasuhiko Arakawa
Quantum dots and photonic crystal for
nanophotonics
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30- presentation by the participants
(in charge: Prof. S. Takeuchi et al.)
discussions on the autumn school
Presentation of awards
18:00- DINNER(Downtown)
(in charge: Prof. S. Takeuchi)
   

 

Transportation systems

Tokyo Metro (subway) is the most efficient way to move around in Tokyo.
http://www.tokyometro.jp/e/

If you use the metro for more than 4 times a day, consider the one day free pass, available at all metro stations. Please see One day ticket.

Attention

Details of Autumn School will be updated each time new information comes up.