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Keynotes (41)

Katsuhiko Ariga (NIMS, Japan)
"Supermolecules as soft materials with dynamic structures and functions in all dimensions: from molecules to nano, micro, and bulk"

Asen Asenov (University of Glasgow, UK)
"Simulation of atomic scale statistical variability in nano-CMOS devices using DD, MC and QT simulation techniques"

Robert N. Barnett (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Atomic, Electronic, and Transport Properties of semiconducting and molecular wires and their metallic Contacts"

Andreas Berger (CIC NanoGUNE Consolider, Spain) "Challenges and Opportunities in Nano-Magnetism Research and Technology"

Richard Berndt (Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Germany)
"Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy in a Microampère Range"

Flemming Besenbacher (iNANO, Denmark)
"Enhanced Bonding of Gold Nanoparticles on Oxidized TiO2(110)"

Sanjay Biswas (Indian Institute of Science, India)
"Frictional dissipation in self assembled MONOlayers of organic molecules"

Harald Brune (EPFL, Switzerland)
"Interface and composition effects determining the magnetic properties of bi-metallic nanostructures"

Remi Carminati (Ecole Centrale Paris, France)
"Local density of states in near-field optics"

Juan Carlos Cuevas (UAM, Spain)
"Electronic transport in single-molecule junctions"

Oscar Custance (Osaka University, Japan)
"Chemical identification of individual surface atoms using dynamic force microscopy"

Silvano De Franceschi (CEA-DRFMC, France)
"Electron transport in semiconductor nanowires"

Pedro Echenique (DIPC, Spain)
"A novel low energy collective excitation at metal surfaces"

Andre Gourdon (CEMES/CNRS, France)
"Single Molecular Devices"

Peter Gruetter (McGill, Canada)
"Electrostatic Force Microscopy of InGa at Cryogenic Temperatures"

Stefan W. Hell (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
"Breaking Abbe’s barrier: Diffraction-unlimited resolution in far-field microscopy"

Antonio Hernando (UCM, Spain)
"Magnetic properties of ZnO Nanoparticles"

Rainer Hillernbrand (Max-Planck-Institut fur Biochemie, Germany)
"Scattering-type Near-Field Microscopy: From Nanoscale Infrared Material Recognition to Superlens Studies"

Yoshiro Hirayama (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Nuclear-spintronics in semiconductor nanostructures"

Sumio Iijima (Meijo University, Japan)
"Science and Nanotechnology of Nano-carbon materials"

Suzanne Jarvis (University College Dublin, Ireland)
"Biological Water"

Mikael Kall (Chalmers University, Sweden)
Nanoplasmonics – from fundamental studies to novel functionalities"

Jacob Klein (Oxford University/Weizmann Institute, UK)
"Hydrated ions as nano-ball-bearings"

Geert-Jan Kroes (Leiden University, Netherlands)
"Nanocluster DFT studies with applications to production and storage of hydrogen"

Uzi Landman (Georgia Tech, USA)
"Controlling the Nanoscale: From Nanocatalysis to Nanowires, DNA Damage, and Wigner Molecules"

Guglielmo Lanzani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
"Dynamics at the nanoscale: Ultrafast Exciton processes in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes"

Jean-Marie Lehn (ISIS-ULP, France)
"Self-Organization of Functional Supramolecular Devices"

Alexei Marchenkov (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"AC Josephson effect and resonant superconducting transport through vibrating Nb nanowires"

Fernando Moreno (Institut Català de Nanotecnologia, Spain)
"High flexibility of DNA on short length scales probed by atomic force microscopy"

Vladimiro Mujica (Northwestern University, USA)
"Magnetism in Gold Nanoparticles and Gold clusters: The Role of Chemisorption and Size"

John Pendry (Imperial College London, UK)
"Transformation Optics: Designing Optics on the Nanoscale"

Jean Francois Roch (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
"Photoluminescent diamond nanoparticles"

Stephan Roche (CEA-DRFMC, France)
"Revisiting Charge Transport at the Mesoscopic Scale : Emerging quantum phenomena in the light of advanced Computational Approaches"

Daniel Rugar (IBM Research Division, USA)
"Magnetic resonance force microscopy: the quest for a molecular structure microscope"

Alexander Shluger (University College London, UK)
"Predicting the properties of new oxides for nano-devices"

H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University, USA)
"The Puzzling Behavior of Liquid Water: Some Clues from the Nanoscale"

Erio Tosatti (SISSA, Italy)
"Ballistic to diffusive crossover in the sliding of kicked clusters"

Niek F. Van Hulst (Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain)
"Nano-antennas - Tools for light on the nanoscale"

Diederik S. Wiersma(LENS, Italy)
"Making lasers from dust: The physics and applications of random lasers"

Ichiro Yamashita(Panasonic, Japan)
"Nanofabrication of inorganic functional structures by protein supramoelcuels WET-NANOTECHNOLOGY"

Ulrich Zuelicke (Massey University, New Zealand)
"Nanospintronics meets relativistic quantum physics: Ubiquity of Zitterbewegung effects"

Orals - Seniors (Plenary Session) (14)

Simon Berner (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
"Boron Nitride Nanomesh: Functionality from a Corrugated Monolayer"

Giovanni Cuniberti (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
"Tuning the conductance of a molecular switch"

Christian Degen (IBM Research Division, United States)
"Nuclear spin detection enabled by ultra-sensitive cantilevers"

Daniel Farias (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
"Probing reaction dynamics at metal surfaces with H2 diffraction"

Douglas Galvao (State University of Campinas, Brazil)
"Metallic Nanowires: When is an alloy not an alloy ?"

Jose Maria Gomez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
"Adatom-adatom interaction mediated by an underlying surface phase transition"

Beatriz Hernandez Juarez (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Germany)
"Quantum dot attachment and morphology control by carbon nanotubes"

Werner Hofer (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
"Perfect ordering of molecular nanostructures"

Andrey Knizhnik (Kinetic Technologies Ltd, Russia)
"Atomistic modeling of metal/high-k oxide interface properties as function of gas treatment"

Danny Porath (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Scanning tunneling spectroscopy and polarizability measurements of DNA and G4-DNA molecules"

Jorge Ripoll (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Crete)
"Obtaining information at the molecular level with mesoscopic fluorescent measurements"

Adam Rycerz (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Valley filter and valley valve in graphene"

Damien Thompson (Tyndall National Institute, Ireland)
"Computer simulations of nanopatterning"

Jose Luis Toca-Herrera (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain)
"Bacterial protein crystals as pure biomimetic nano-molecules"

Orals - PhD (Parallel Session) (8)

Faisal Aldaye (McGill University, Canada)
"Nanoparticle Organization and Advances in Structural DNA Nanotechnology"

Marta E. Cañas-Ventura (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Switzerland)
"Exploiting template surface and end-group functionalities to guide the self-assembly of specific supramolecular architectures"

Marianna Casavola (National Nanotechnology Laboratory of CNR-INFM, Italy)
"Topologically controlled growth of magnetic-metal-functionalized semiconductor oxide nanorods"

Saioa Cobo (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination/ CNRS, France)
"Thin films and "nano-dots" of spin crossover complexes: Elaboration and physical properties"

Husan-Ming Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
"Large-Scale “Atomistic” Approach to Discrete-Dopant Fluctuated Si Nanowire FETs"

Enrique Sahagun (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
"Energy Dissipation due to Capillary Interactions: Hydrophobicity Maps in Force Microscopy"

Piernicola Spinicelli (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, France)
"Coherence-time measurements of single photons emitted by CdSe colloidal nanocrystals"

Nikolai Wintjes (University of Basel, Switzerland)
"Supramolecular Rotor-Stator Systems leading to a Multi-Position Rotary Device"