| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Global and Local Thin Film Behavior |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Ben Freund, Brown University |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Dr. Oliver Kraft, MPI Stuttgart
How to Determine the Yield Strength of a Thin Metal Film |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Prof. Shefford Baker, Cornell University
The Thermomechanical Behavior of Thin Metal Films |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microstructural Effects on Film Formation and Behavior |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Michael Thouless, University of Michigan |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Dr. Rick Vinci, Lehigh University
Effects of microstructure and solute content on mechanical behavior of Pt thin films |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Dr. Dan Josell, NIST
Unique Aspects of Creep from Studies of Thin Films and Multilayers |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Prof. Karen Maex, IMEC/Katholieke Universitet
Silicide induced stress in Si: origin and consequences for IC technology |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free time |
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Poster Session Overviews |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Trevor Page,
University of Newcastle-on-Tyne |
| 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Contact Behavior |
| Discussion Leader, Prof. George Pharr,
University of Tennessee |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Dr. Yang-Tse Cheng, GM Research
Obtaining Strain Hardening Constitutive Relationships from Indentation Measurements |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Prof. Joost Vlassak, Harvard University
The Use of Contact Mechanics in CMP Modeling |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Dr. Barry Lucas, FastForward Devices
Experimental Contact Mechanics Studies in Three Dimensions: "Are Three Heads Better Than One?" |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Adhesion and Interfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Reiner Dauskardt, Stanford University |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Dr. Neville Moody, Sandia National Laboratory
Adhesion of Thin Ductile Films |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Prof. Tim Weihs, Johns Hopkins University
A Description of Self-propagating Reactions in Multilayer Foils and Their Use as Novel Heat Sources for Joining |
| 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Stress Effects on Film Formation and Stability |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Zhigang Suo, Princeton University |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Dr. Eric van der Giessen, University of Groningen
Dislocation Structures in Thin Films and other Confined Geometries |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Dr. Jerry Floro, Sandia National Laboratory
Compressive Growth Stress in Thin Films: Much Data, Little Understanding |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 am | Prof. David Clarke, UC Santa Barbara
Mechanisms of failure of highly compressed films |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Electromigration and Voiding |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. William D. Nix, Stanford University |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Dr. Cynthia Volkert, MPI Stuttgart
Alternating Current-Induced Damage in Metal Films |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dr. Tom Shaw, IBM Research
Stress Voiding in Wide Copper Lines |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Magnetic and Electrical Effects |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Katayun Barmak, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Prof. Rick James, University of Minnesota
Deforming Films of Active Materials: New Concepts for Producing Motion at Small Scales Using Applied Fields |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Prof. Nancy Sottos, University of Illinois
Ferroelectric Thin Film Performance - The Role of Residual Stress and other Matters of Scale |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Dr. Andy Bushby, University of London
Functional Thin Films: A New Challenge for Nanoindentation |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Topical Lecture |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Robert Cook,
University of Minnesota |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Prof. Gerard Michot, Ecole des Mines de Nancy
Mechanical Approach of the Triggering of Slab Avalanches |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
