| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | INTRODUCTION TO THIN FILM AND SMALL SCALE MECHANICS |
| Discussion Leader: Eduard Arzt (Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart) |
| Hael Mughrabi (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
"Hierarchy of Scales in Monotonic and Cyclic Plasticity" |
| Huajian Gao (Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart)
"Diffusional Creep in Thin Films: Theory, Experiment and Simulation" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | INTERFACES AND DISLOCATIONS IN THIN FILM STRUCTURES |
| Discussion Leader: Shefford Baker (Cornell University) |
| Peter Anderson (Ohio State University)
"Dislocation Interactions with Multilayer Interfaces" |
| Coffee Break / Photo |
| Marc Legros (CEMES/CNRS Toulouse)
"In-situ TEM Studies of Dislocation-Based Plasticity in Metallic Thin Films" |
| Amit Misra (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Deformation Mechanisms and Plastic Stability in Nanoscale Metallic Multilayers" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | POSTER PREVIEWS |
| Discussion Leader: Trevor Page (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) |
| 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | POSTER SESSION I |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CONSTRAINED PLASTICITY |
| Discussion Leader: Yu-Lin Shen (University of New Mexico) |
| Ke Lu (Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science)
"Size-Dependent Strength of Copper Materials" |
| Helena Van Swygenhoven (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)
"Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystalline Metals: Experiments and Atomistic Computer Simulations" |
| Ruth Schwaiger (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)
"Size Effects in Metal Fatigue" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PERSPECTIVES I |
| Discussion Leader: William D. Nix (Stanford University) |
| Ben Freund (Brown University)
"Unresolved Issues in Thin Film Mechanics" |
| General discussion on "The Future of Thin Film Mechanics" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
| Arun Majumdar (UC Berkeley)
"Nanomechanics at the Interface Hard/Soft Matter" |
| Joachim Spatz (University of Heidelberg)
"Cell Mechanics and Its Consequences for Organisms" |
| Helmut Kirchner (Universite Paris Sud)
"Mechanics of Bone: a Metallurgist's Perspective" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PERSPECTIVES II |
| Discussion Leader: David Clarke (UC Santa Barbara) |
| Subra Suresh (MIT, Cambridge)
"Nanomechanics of Single Living Cells and Connections to Human Diseases" |
| General discussion on "Linking Biology and Mechanics" |
| 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | POSTER SESSION II |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | TESTING AND SIMULATION METHODS |
| Discussion Leader: Frans Spaepen (Harvard University) |
| Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Micro-Instrumentation for Nano-Scale Materials Behavior Under Uniaxial Tension" |
| Mike Baskes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Atomistic Simulation of Length Scale Effects in Plasticity" |
| Ralph Spolenak (Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart)
"Stresses in Single Grains by Laue X-Ray Microdiffraction: Do We Understand Plasticity?" |
| Horacio Espinosa (Northwestern University)
"Novel Experiments to Assess the Role of Material Stochasticity in the Design of MEMS and Nano Devices" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SPECIAL TOPICAL LECTURE |
| Daniel Wagner (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Mechanics at a Smaller Scale: from Bone to Nanotubes" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
