Jan 27-28
The 100th Anniversary Hall, Yonezawa Campus, Yamagata University
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception (Café Azuma)
9:00 - 9:05 Opening Address
Hiroshi Ito (Professor, Director of GreenMAP and NGAP Research Center, Yamagata University)
9:05 - 9:10 Welcome Speech
Hiroshi Iizuka (Professor, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata University)
Introduction for Future Collaborations
9:15 - 9:45 Introduction to British Columbia Institute of Technology and Future Prospects with Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata University
James Albright (Director of BCIT Research, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada)
9:45 - 10:15 Introduction to Johns Hopkins University and Future Prospects with Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata University
Larry Akio Nagahara (Associate Dean of Research, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
10:15 - 10:45 Introduction to University of Windsor and Future Prospects with Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata University
Mehrdad Saif (Professor, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, University of Windsor, Canada)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
Technical Lectures
11:00 - 11:30 Engineering Challenges in Advanced Electroencephalography Applications
Catherine Poulsen (Electrical Geodesics, Inc., USA)
11:30 - 12:00 Accurate Head Models for Electroencephalographic Source Localization and Transcranial Electrical Stimulation
Dr. Sergei Turovets (Electrical Geodesics, Inc., USA)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Resonance, Dissipation, and Sustainable Energy
Thomas Thundat (University of Alberta, Canada)
14:00 - 14:45 Reactive Processing for Bioplastics: Outlook and Opportunities
Supakij Suttiruengwong (Silpakorn University, Thailand)
14:45 - 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:00 Common Ill-posedness in Viscoelastic Constitutive Equations and Numerical Description of Elastic Flow Instability
Youngdon Kwon (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
16:00 - 16:45 Structures of Poly(methyl methacrylate) Films under Non-solvents
YHironori Atarashi (Okayama University, Japan)
16:45 - 17:40 Laboratory (GMAP and LPIC) tour
18:00 - Banquet (Tokyo Dai-ichi Hotel Yonezawa)
9:00 - 10:00 TBA
10:00-10:45 A New Technique to Fabricate CMUTs with Low Electrical Charging Effects
Sazzadur Chowdhury (University of Windsor, Canada)
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 AuSn Lead-free Solder Alloy and Advanced Processing
Yong Mao (Yunnan University, China)
11:45-12:00 Group Photo
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Slide-Ring Materials: Novel Molecular Design for Tough Polymers
Kohzo Ito (University of Tokyo/JST, Japan)
14:00-14:45 New Paradigm of Designing and Controlling Hybrid Polymer/Solid Interfaces
Tad Koga (Stony Brook University, USA)
14:45-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-16:00 Molecular Simulations for Polymer Rheology
Yuichi Masubuchi (Nagoya University, Japan)
16:00-16:45 Polymeric Acid Catalysts for Continuous-flow Reaction Systems
Maki Minakawa (Yamagata University, Japan)
16:30-16:35 Closing Remarks
Hidemitsu Furukawa (Director of Life 3D Printing Innovation Center, Yamagata University)
