TIENCS 2008 - Programme  Click here for the pdf file, location and TIENCS 2008 photogallery

Wednesday, 04 June,  Venue:  LT31, S16, Faculty of Science

08:15-09:00

Registration/light breakfast

09:00-09:15

Opening Ceremony

Phononics I (Chair: B. Li)

09:15-09:50

Bambi Hu

Asymmetric Heat Conduction in Nonlinear Systems

09:50-10:25

Chih-Wei Chang

Nanotube Phononics

10:25-10:45

Coffee/Tea Break

Phononics II (Chair: J.-B Gong)

10:45-11:20

Abraham Nitzan

Inelastic Effect and Heat Conduction in Molecular Junctions

11:20-11:55

Dvira Segal

Single Mode Heat Rectifier: Controlling Energy Flow between Metals

11:55-12:30

Peter Hanggi

Ratcheting Heat against a Thermal Bias

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

Nano Scale Heat Transport I (Chair: T. Yamamoto)

14:00-14:35

Sebastian Volz

Heat Transfer in Nanoparticles : Radiation, Coherence and Scattering

14:35-15:10

Jian-Sheng Wang

Simulating Quantum Transport using Generalized Langevin Molecular Dynamics

15:10-15:30

Jian Wang

Dimensional and Mode Dependent Thermal Transport in Low-Dimensional Systems

15:30-16:00

Coffee/Tea Break

Nano scale Heat Transport  II  (Chair: P. Keblinski)

16:00-16:35

Dana D. Dlott

Heat Flow from Surfaces to Molecular Adsorbates Probed with High Time and Space Resolution

16:35-17:10

WenQing Zhang 

Filled Skutterudites: from Single to Multiple Filling

17:10-17:30

Fumio Nishimura

Molecular-dynamics Simulations on Heat Conduction in Peapod

17:30-17:50

Jinghua Lan

Thermal Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons

   
Thursday, 05 June,  Venue:  LT31, S16, Faculty of Science
Heat Conduction in Nanotube (Chair: S. Kohler)
09:00-09:35

Shigeo Maruyama

Diffusive-Ballistic Heat Conduction along a Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube

09:35-10:10

Takahiro Yamamoto

From Coherent to Incoherent Phonon Transport in Carbon Nanotubes

10:10-10:30

Toru Takahashi

Phonon Wavepacket Simulations on Multi-Walled Nanotubes

10:30-10:50 Coffee/Tea Break
Nano Scale Heat Engines (Chair: D Dlott)
10:50-11:25

Heiner Linke

Nanowires as Carnot Heat Engines

11:25-12:00

Nobuyasu Ito

Simulation Study on Nano-scale Engine

12:00-12:35

Sigmund Kohler

Nonadiabatic Pumping of Electrons and Heat

12:35-14:00 Lunch Break
Phononics III (Chair: A Nitzan )
14:00-14:35

Keiji Saito

Heat cCntrolling in Magnetic Systems and Heat Fluctuations in Phononic Systems

14:35-14:55

YongHong Yan

Non-ballistic Heat Conduction in an Integrable Random-exchange Ising Chain

14:55-15:30

Sanjiv Sinha

Thermal Transport in Nanoscale Devices: Silicon Transistors to Thermal Rectifiers

15:30-16:05

Lei Wang

Heat Flow Control: from Thermal Transistor to Thermal Logic Gate

16:05-16:35 Coffee/Tea Break
16:35-17:30 Poster Section/Free Discussion
19:00 Banquet (Kent Ridge Guild House, NUS)
   
Friday, 06 June,  Venue:  LT31, S16, Faculty of Science
Microscale Heat Transfer (Chair: G. Casati)
09:00-09:35

Henk van Beijeren

Green-Kubo Formalism for Solids and Solid Surfaces

09:35-10:10

Gary Morriss

Lyapunov Modes for Nonequilibrium Heat Flow Systems

10:10-10:40

ZongHua Liu

Manipulating Heat Flow with Complex Networks

10:40-11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
Thermoelectronics I (Chair: H. Linke)
11:00-11:35

Zhixi Bian

Low Dimensional and Nanostructured InGaAlAs Materials For Thermoelectric Energy Conversion

11:35-12:10

Li Shi

Thermal Transport and Thermoelectricity in Individual Nanowires, Nanotubes, and Nanostructured Films

12:10-12:30

Nuo Yang

Carbon Nanocone - A Practical Thermal Rectifier

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
Nano-scale heat transport III  (Chair: N Ito)
14:00-14:35

Pawel Keblinski

Ultra-Low Thermal Conductivity Layered Crystals

14:35-15:10

Petros Koumoutsakos

Multiscale Simulation of Liquids

15:10-15:30

Dibyendu Roy

Heat transport in harmonic lattices

15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea Break
Thermoelectronics II  (Chair: C.-W Chang)
16:00-16:35

Renkun Chen

Thermal and Thermoelectric Transport in Silicon Nanowires

16:35-17:10

Giulio Casati

Classical and Quantum Transport: From Fourier Law to Thermoelectric Efficiency

17:10-17:30

Gang Zhang

Thermoelectric Properties of Silicon Nanowires

17:30-17:40 Closing of the Conference