July 30-August 4, 2006
Colby College,Waterville, Maine
Full program at
http://www.grc.org/programs/2006/thinfilm.htm Apply for attendance and submit poster abstract in March 2006
Chair:
Zhigang Suo (Harvard University)
suo@deas.harvard.eduVice Chair:
Rick Vinci (Lehigh University)
RAPPORTEURSEduard Arzt (Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research)
David Clarke (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Ben Freund (Brown University)
Bill Gerberich (University of Minnesota)
Bill Nix (Stanford University)
John Hutchinson (Harvard University)
Frans Spaepen (Harvard University)
MECHANICS OF INTEGRATED STRUCTURESOliver Kraft (Institute for Materials Research, Karlsruhe)
Ting Tsui (Texas Instruments)
Jun He (Intel Corporation)
SMALL-SCALE BIOMECHANICAL BEHAVIORHuajian Gao (Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research; Brown University)
Rob Ritchie (University of California, Berkeley)
Gang Bao (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Jun Liu (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)
Mary Boyce (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
PLASTICITY AND STRESS IN CONFINED GEOMETRIESAmit Misra (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Mike Uchic (Air Force Research Laboratory)
Ke Lu (Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science)
Helena Van Swygenhoven (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Alan Needleman (Brown University)
Ed Webb (Sandia National Laboratories)
INTERACTION BETWEEN SOFT AND HARD MATERIALSWole Soboyejo (Princeton University)
Sigurd Wagner (Princeton University)
Yves Leterrier (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Matt Begley (University of Virginia)
Bob Keller (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Herbert Hui (Cornell University)
Ray Pearson (Lehigh University)
NEW VISTAS OF SMALL-SCALE MECHANICAL BEHAVIORErik van der Giessen (University of Groningen)
Steve Granick (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Manoj Chaudhury (Lehigh University)
John Bassani (University of Pennsylvania)
SPECIAL TOPICAL LECTURE ON LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERSReiner Dauskardt (Stanford University)
Mark Warner (University of Cambridge)
POSTER SESSION LEADERSTrevor Page (University of Newcastle)
George Pharr (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)