Saturday 19^th February 2011

14:00                   Check-in at Al Hamra Fort Hotel

18:00 - 22:00       IWAM Registration & Cocktail Reception

Session I

Opening Session

Start time: 09:00

 End time: 10:00

09:00

Welcome & Overview of RAK CAM

Professor Samy El-Shall

Director, RAK CAM

09:10

Professor Anthony K. Cheetham

Chairman of the Science Advisory Board, RAK CAM

09:20

Keynote address

His Highness Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi

Member of the Supreme Council of UAE and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah

09:30

Ras Al Khaimah - Constuction Materials and their Technology

Mr. Simon Turner

Stevin Rock LLC

Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

10:00

Coffee break

Session II

Functional & Bioactive Polymers &

Porous Coordination Polymers

Chair: Anthony K. Cheetham

Start time: 10:30

  End time: 12:30

10:30

Functional Polymers: the Importance of Functionality, Topology, and Topography

Professor Jean M. J. Fréchet

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

College of Chemistry, University of California

Berkeley, CA, USA

11:10

Bioactive Nanostructures for Regenerative Medicine

Professor Samuel I. Stupp

Departments of Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, and Medicine

Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

11:50

Soft Porous Coordination Polymers and Metal-Organic Frameworks

Professor Susumu Kitagawa

Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences

Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry

Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

12:30

Lunch (Don Camillo Restaurant)

Session III

Metal-Organic Frameworks & Lightweight Alloys

Chair: Susumu Kitagawa

Start time: 14:15

End time: 16:05

14:15

Properties and Potential Applications of Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials

Professor Anthony K. Cheetham

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy

University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK

14:55

Computational Design and Targeted Synthesis of Electroactive PolyOxoMetalate Organic Frameworks (POMOFs);

Towards New Electrocatalysts for H₂ Production

Professor Caroline Mellot-Draznieks

Department of Chemistry

University College, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK

15:35

Recent Advances in Modeling and Optimization of Superplastic Forming of Lightweight Alloys

Professor Marwan Khraisheh

Dean of Masdar Institute of Science and Technology

Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

16:05

Coffee break

Session IV

New Functional Oxides &

Advanced Ceramics

Chair: C. N. R. Rao 

Start time: 16:30

End time: 17:50

16:30

Discovering New Functional Transition Metal Oxides: Rational Design versus Serendipity

Professor Mas Subramanian

Department of Chemistry

Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA

17:10

Highly Durable Si-B-N-C Ceramics: Paving the Way to Industrial Scale Production

Professor Martin Jansen

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart, GERMANY

18:30–21:00

Poster Session I

Al Hamra Convention Center

Session V

Carbon Materials

Chair: Samy El-Shall

Start time: 09:00

End time: 10:50

09:00

Novel Attributes of Graphene

Professor C. N. R. Rao

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

Jakkur P.O, Bangalore 560 064, India

09:40

Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes in Materials Science and Nanomedicine

Professor Maurizio Prato

Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche

Università degli Studi di Trieste

Piazzale Europa 1, 34127 Trieste, Italy

10:20

Upgrading Cellulosic Resources as Specialty Polymers

Professor Raed Hashaikeh

Masdar Institute of Science and Technology

Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

10:50

Coffee break

Session VI

Energy Conversion & Catalysis

Chair: Michael L. Klein

Start time: 11:20

End time: 12:40

11:20

Semiconductor Nanowires for Solar Energy Conversion

Professor Peidong Yang

College of Chemistry

University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

12:00

Photothermal Energy Conversion and

Nanocatalysis on Graphene

Professor M. Samy El-Shall

Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia 23284, USA

12:40

Lunch (Don Camillo Restaurant)

Session VII

Nanoparticles & Nanotechnology

Chair: Maurizio Prato

Start time: 14:30

End time: 16:10

14:30

Nanotechnology and Its Applications in Biomaterials, Pharmaceuticals Synthesis and Energy

Professor Jackie Y. Ying

Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

31 Biopolis Way, The Nanos, Singapore 138669

15:10

Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Storage - A Clean & Renewable Energy Technology           

Professor Mohamed Bououdina

Nanotechnology Centre

University of Bahrain, Bahrain      

15:40

Photothermal Efficient Graphene-Plasmonic Nanocomposites for Enhancement of Thermal Water Desalination Rate

Professor Mona B. Mohamed

National Institute of Laser Enhanced Science (NILES)

Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

NanoTech Egypt for Photoelectronics, Cairo, Egypt

16:10 

Coffee break

Session VIII

Optical Properties

Chair: Peidong Yang

Start time: 16:40

End time: 18:00

16:40

Photophysical Properties of Semiconducting Nanocrystals: What makes them Glow?

Professor D. D. Sarma

Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560012, India

17:20

Structure-Property Relations in Y₃Al₅O₁₂:Ce and

CaSc₂O₄:Ce Yellow Phosphors from Scattering and ²⁷Al/⁴³Ca/⁴⁵Sc NMR Studies

Professor Ram Seshadri

Chemical Engineering Department

Materials Department and Materials Research Laboratory

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

18:30–21:00 

Poster Session II

Al Hamra Convention Center

Session IX

Nano Medicine - I

Chair: Jean M. J. Fréchet

Start time: 09:00

End time: 10:50

09:00

Applications of New Exciting Properties Resulting From

the Confinement Effects of the Small Size of Nanoparticles

in Research on Environmental Protection, in Solar Energy Conversion and in Cancer Nano-Medicine

Professor Mostafa A El-Sayed

Laser Dynamic Laboratory

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

09:40

Biomedical Nanomagnetics: A Spin through New Possibilities in Imaging, Diagnostics and Therapy

Professor Kannan M. Krishnan

Departments of Materials Science & Engineering

University of Washington, Seattle, USA

10:20

A Novel Dual Drug Delivery System for Infection Treatment and Bone Reconstruction

Professor Ahmed El-Ghannam

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, NC, USA

10:50

Coffee break

Session X

Molecular Semiconductors &

Chemical Switches

Chair: Mostafa El-Sayed

Start time: 11:20

End time: 12:40

11:20

Excitons in Molecular Semiconductors

Professor Sir Richard Friend

FRS, FREng, Cavendish Laboratory

J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge University

Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK

12:00

Mechano-Chemical Switches

Professor Viola Vogel

Department of Materials

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

12:40

Group Photo

12:50

Lunch (Don Camillo Restaurant)

Session XI

Water &

Computational Materials Science

Chair: Caroline Mellot-Draznieks

Start time: 14:30

End time: 16:20

14:30

Ceramic Filters for the Treatment of Waste Water

Professor Yaser E. Greish

Department of Chemistry, College of Science

United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE

15:00

Computational Materials Science and

the Nano-Bio-Med Frontier

Professor Michael L. Klein

Institute for Computational Molecular Science
College of Science & Technology, Temple University

Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA

15:40

A Molecular Picture of Water Structure and Dynamics

from Computer Simulation

Professor E. G. Wang

International Center for Quantum Materials

School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China

16:20

Coffee break

16:50

Closing Remarks

Professor Samy El-Shall

Professor Anthony K. Cheetham

19:00

Dinner Banquet at the Palace hosted by

His Highness Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi

Member of the Supreme Council of UAE and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah