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Day 1 - July, 22nd 2009

NOVEL MATERIALS FOR THERMOELECTRICS

• 09:30 to 09:45 - Welcome

Powder and nanoparticle composites

• 09:45 to 10:45 - Gang Chen
  
  Nanocomposites Thermoelectrics: The Knowns and the Unknowns
• 10:45 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 12:00 - Ali Shakouri
  
  Metal/semiconductor nanocomposites for thermoelectric energy conversion
• 12:00 to 14:00 - Lunch Break

New bulk materials

• 14:00 to 15:00
• 15:00 to 15:15 - Coffee Break
• 15:15 to 16:15

POSTER SESSION

• 16:30 to 17:30 - Poster Session

Day 2 - July, 23rd 2009

THERMAL TRANSPORT

Nano-materials

• 09:00 to 10:30 - Sébastian Volz
  
  Phonon wave effects in nanostructured materials for thermoelectric applications
• 10:30 to 10:45 - Coffee Break
• 10:45 to 11:45 - David Broido
  
  First Principles Approach to Phonon Thermal Transport in Bulk and Nanostructured Materials
• 11:45 to 13:30 - Lunch Break

Interfaces

• 13:30 to 14:00 - Gerald Mahan
  
  KAPITZA THERMAL RESISTANCE BETWEEN A METAL AND AN INSULATOR
• 14:00 to 14:30

PANEL DISCUSSION: “Beating the ZT Barrier: Issues and Future Directions”

• 15:30 to 17:00 - Discussion

CONFERENCE DINNER

• 19:00 to 22:00 - Dinner

Day 3 - July, 24th 2009

MATERIALS BY DESIGN

Large scale ab-initio computations

• 09:00 to 10:00
• 10:00 to 10:15 - Coffee Break
• 10:15 to 11:45
• 11:45 to 13:30 - Lunch Break

Advances in electron transport theory

• 13:30 to 15:00