New Thermoelectric Materials Workshop
A workshop sponsored by Michigan State University
August 17th-August 21st, 2002
Traverse City, Michigan, USA
 

Schedule

Please note, the conference registration includes the reception on Saturday night, Breakfast on Sunday through Wednesday, and the conference banquet on Monday evening.   There are various restaurants in the hotel and within walking distance of the hotel where other meals can be taken.  The beach is also accessible on foot.

Saturday 17th August
7:00 pm -9:00 pm	Reception	Courtyard Rooms
Sunday 18th August
7:30 am	Breakfast	Top of the Park
9:00-9:15	Welcome - Opening Remarks	Courtyard Rooms
Oral Session –	Chair:	Courtyard Rooms
9:15 am - 10:00 am	J.-P. Fleurial, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 15 minute discussion
10:15 am - 11:00 am	Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Michigan State University New Bulk Materials for Thermoelectric Applications: Synthetic Strategies 15 minute discussion
11:15 am - 11:45 am	Coffee Break (Poster Session during break)
11:45 am - 12:20 pm	George Nolas, University of South Florida Group-IV Clathrates: Interesting Science from Applied Reasearch 10 minute discussion
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Lunch (on own)
Afternoon Free	Afternoon Fee - Trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes (transportation will be arranged)	The Beach!
6:00 pm -8:00 pm	Dinner (On your own)
Oral Session -	Chair:	Courtyard Rooms
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm	Holger Kleinke, University of Waterloo Intercalation of Small Cations into the Semiconductor Mo3Sb5Te2 10 minute discussion
8:40 pm - 9:10 pm	Duck-Young Chung, Michigan State University Progress for the Enhancement of ZT and the Thermoelectric Applications of CsBi4Te6 10 minute discussion
9:20 pm - 9:50 pm	Tim Hogan, Michigan State Univeristy A Reveiw of Measurement Techniques for Thermoelectric Materials and Devices 10 minute discussion
Monday 19th August
7:30 am	Breakfast	Top of the Park
Oral Session-	Chair:	Courtyard Rooms
8:45 am - 9:30 am	Gerry Mahan, Pennsylvania State University Thermionic-Thermoelectric Devices 15 minute discussion
9:45 am - 10:30 am	Joseph Heremans, Delphi Research Laboratory Thermoelectric Transport in Bismuth Nanowires: A Review of Experimental Results 15 minute discussion
10:45 am - 11:15 am	Coffee Break (Poster Session during break)
11:15 am - 12:00 pm	Frank DiSalvo, Cornell University The Synthetic Search for Better Thermoelectric Materials 15 minute discussion
12:15 am - 12:45 pm	Takenori Fujii, Waseda University Block-Layer Concept for the Layered Co Oxide: A Design for Thermoelectric Oxides 10 minute discussion
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Lunch Break (on your own)
2:30-7:00	Free Time
7:00 pm - 10:00	Conference Banquet	Top of the Park
Tuesday 20th August
7:30 am	Breakfast	Top of the Park
Oral session -	Chair:	Courtyard Rooms
8:45 am - 9:30 am	Millie Dresselhaus, MIT Bismuth Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications 15 minute discussion
9:45 am - 10:30 am	Rama Ventkatasubramanian, RTI Superlattice Thermoelectric Materials and Devices 15 minute discussion
10:45 am - 11:15 am	Coffee Break (Poster Session during break)
11:15 am - 12:00 pm	Ted Harman, MIT Self-Assembled Quantum DOT Superlattice Thermoelectric Materials and Devices 15 minute discussion
12:15 am - 12:40 pm	Terry Aselage, Sandia National Laboratories Boron Carbides: Unconventional High-Temperature Thermoelectrics 10 minute discussion
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	12:45 pm Conference Photo Lunch Break (on your own)
Oral Session -	Chair:	Courtyard Rooms
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Jorge O. Sofo, Pennsylvania State University Toward an ab-initio determination of transport coefficients 10 minute discussion
3:10 am - 3:40 pm	John Badding, Pennsylvania State University Pressure Tuning of Thermoelectric Materials 10 minute discussion
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm	Dinner (on your own)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm	Jihui Yang, Materials and Processes Lab, General Motors R & D and Planning Thermal Conduction in CoSb_3-based Skutterudites 10 minute discussion
8:00 pm - 8:35 pm	Horia Metiu, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Simulations of the Thermoelectric Properties of Clathrates and Other Cage Compounds 10 minute discussion
8:45 pm - 9:20 pm	S. D. Mahanti, Michigan State University Electronic Structure of Complex Bismuth Chalcogenide Systems 10 minute discussion
Wednesday 21st August
7:30 am	Breakfast	Top of the Park
Oral Session -	Chair:	Courtyard Rooms
8:45 am - 9:30 am	Ctirad Uher, University of Michigan Recent Progress in the Study of Skutterudites as Novel Thermoelectric Materials 15 minute discussion
9:45 am - 10:30 am	Chen Gang, MIT Phonon Heat Conduction in Superlattices 15 minute discussion
10:45 am - 11:15 am	Coffee Break
11:15 am - 11:45 am	Norbert Elsner, HiZ Technology, Inc. TBA 10 minute discussion
11:45 am - 12:00 pm	General Discussion, Conclusions
12:00 pm	Adjourn