DATES: December 6 to December 13, 2007
LOCATION: Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research

The International Center for Materials Research (ICMR) is pleased to announce a residential, one week Winter School on the Physics and Chemistry of Inorganic Materials, a partnership between the ICMR and the JNCASR. The winter school will take place from December 6 to December 13, 2007 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India. The aim of this school is to bring young researchers and scientists together to enable them to learn and to discuss the diverse aspects of the physics and chemistry of inorganic materials.

Areas covered in the school will include:

Inorganic Materials
Nanomaterials
Nanoporous materials
Oxides and their properties
Theory simulation in materials chemistry
Materials for energy and environmental applications


Confirmed Speakers:

S. Balasubramanian, JNCASR, India
A.J. Battacharyya, IISc., India
Simon Billinge, Michigan State University, US
Anthony K. Cheetham, University of Cambridge, UK
Peter Day, University College London, UK
M. Eswaramoorthy, JNCASR, India
Clare Grey, SUNY Stonybrook, US
Mike Klein, University of Pennsylvania, US
S. B. Krupanidhi, IISc., India
G. U. Kulkarni, JNCASR, India
Tapas K. Maji, JNCASR, India
Shobhana Narasimhan, JNCASR, India
Prof. Chandrabhas Narayanan, JNCASR, India
K. S. Narayan, JNCASR, India
Swapan K. Pati, JNCASR, India
Ken Poeppelmeier, Northwestern, US
R. Ramesh, UC Berkeley, US
C.N.R. Rao, JNCASR, India
Arup K. Raychaudhuri, IISc., India
Ram Seshadri, UCSB, US
S. M. Shivaprasad, NPL, India
A. K. Sood, IISc, India
Nicola Spaldin, UCSB, US
A. Sundaresan, JNCASR, India
Prof. Michal Verdaguer, France
U. V. Varadaraju, IIT Chennai, India
S. Vasudevan, IISc, India
U. V. Waghmare, JNCASR, India
M. Yamashita, Tohoku University, Japan

JNCASR Winter School Webpage

THE ICMR IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THIS PROGRAM

For further details, please contact the ICMR Program Coordinator, Jennifer Ybarra, at ybarra@icmr.ucsb.edu