Program

Opening Session with Dinner (Welcome Reception):   18:30–20:30

18:00–20:30  Registration

Opening Talks:

Arun Majumdar  (Stanford University)

Ken Okazaki  (Institute of Science Tokyo)

US–Japan Collaboration Talks:

Geoff Wehmeyer  (Rice University)

Tengfei Luo  (University of Notre Dame)

Masato Ohnishi  (The University of Tokyo)

Alan McGaughey  (Carnegie Mellon University), Xiulin Ruan  (Purdue University) and Lucas Lindsay  (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Session I — Energy Conversion & Devices:   8:30–10:35

Chairs: Takafumi Ishibe / Jiyoung Kim

8:30–8:40  Welcome Remarks

8:40–9:20  Shigeo Maruyama  [Plenary I]  (The University of Tokyo)

In-plane thermal transport of films of one-dimensional heterostructures based on SWCNTs

9:20–9:35  Xiaojia Wang  (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)

Temperature-Dependent Thermal and Magnetic Properties of HAMR Materials

9:35–9:50  Kazuhiro Yanagi  (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Multiple zT Peaks Originating from van Hove Singularities in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

9:50–10:05  Asegun Henry  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Rethinking Problems in Thermal Science and Engineering

10:05–10:20  Tsunehiro Takeuchi  (Toyota Technological Institute)

Significantly reduced lattice thermal conductivity and improved thermoelectric performance in Si-Ge bulk materials

10:20–10:35  Yoshiaki Nakamura  (Osaka University)

Vibron transport investigation using controlled nanostructure interfaces

10:35–11:05  Break

Session II — Fluid & Phase Change:   11:05–13:00

Chairs: James Zhang / Riku Enomoto

11:05–11:45  Arun Majumdar  [Plenary II]  (Stanford University)

Nano/Microscale Science and Engineering for Gigascale Opportunities

11:45–12:00  Renkun Chen  (University of California San Diego)

Capillary-Driven Nanoscale Thin-Film Evaporation with High Heat Flux and Fast Transient Dynamics

12:00–12:15  Hirofumi Daiguji  (The University of Tokyo)

Control of boiling phenomena in confined spaces

12:15–12:30  Ikuya Kinefuchi  (The University of Tokyo)

Measurement of water molecules and clusters evaporating from a liquid surface

12:30–12:45  Jonathan Boreyko  (The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Spontaneous Liquid Transport Enabled by Nanostructured Surfaces

12:45–13:00  Gota Kikugawa  (Tohoku University)

Interfacial Thermal Transport between Two-Dimensional hBN Layers and Confined Water: A Molecular Dynamics Study

13:00–14:15  Lunch

Session III — Thermal Metrology:   14:15–16:00

Chairs: Yuanzhe Li / Luke Min

14:15–14:30  Ken Uchida  (The University of Tokyo)

Cryogenic CMOS: Required Functionalities, Thermal Characterization, and CMOS-Compatible Cryogenic Thermometers

14:30–14:45  Chris Dames  (University of California, Berkeley)

Nanoscale thermal metrology using SEM and TEM

14:45–15:00  Amy Marconnet  (Purdue University)

Thermal Engineering to Enable Next Generation Electronic Devices

15:00–15:15  Patrick Hopkins  (University of Virginia)

Infrared pump-probe thermoreflectance and ellipsometry to enable measurements of phonon scattering, ultrasonic polariton transport, and emittance

15:15–15:30  Junko Morikawa  (Institute of Science Tokyo)

Higher-order Structures and Thermal Diffusivity of Polyolefins

15:30–15:45  Geoff Wehmeyer  (Rice University)

Thermal Anisotropy in Solution-Spun Macroscopic Carbon Nanotube Films

15:45–16:00  Takashi Yagi  (AIST)

High-throughput time-domain thermoreflectance using multiple delay probing

16:00–16:30  Break & Photograph Session

Session IV — Wetting:   16:30–18:15

Chairs: Bei Fan / Donatas Surblys

16:30–16:45  Rohit Karnik  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Ionic and Molecular Transport across Sub-Nanometer Pores in Atomically Thin Graphene Membranes

16:45–17:00  Hideaki Teshima  (Kyushu University)

Water does not slip on hydrophobic surfaces: Insights from slip length mapping

17:00–17:15  Daniel Preston  (Rice University)

Mitigating Chemical and Thermal Failure Mechanisms in Engineered Wettability Surfaces

17:15–17:30  Timothée Mouterde  (The University of Tokyo)

Towards dry antifogging by programmed droplet jumping

17:30–17:45  Xianming Dai  (Texas A&M University)

τ Law in Thermal Fluid Transport

17:45–18:00  Qin-Yi Li  (Kyushu University)

Anomalous Gas–Liquid–Solid Interfaces under Nanotube Confinement

18:00–18:15  Chuanhua Duan  (Boston University)

Thinking Outside the Box: Engineering Micro/Nanoscale Solid–Liquid Interactions for a Sustainable Future

18:40–21:00  Reception & Poster Session (Room 441, Bldg. 5, Department of Engineering)

Session V — Materials, Computation & AI:   8:00–10:00

Chairs: Yuting Guo / Sean Lubner

8:00–8:30  Ryo Yoshida  [Keynote]  (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics)

Omics-Scale Computational Materials Database Enabling Real-World AI Applications

8:30–8:45  Lucas Lindsay  (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Insights from vibrational thermal transport modeling

8:45–9:00  Junichiro Shiomi  (The University of Tokyo)

AI4Materials for heat transfer

9:00–9:15  Xiulin Ruan  (Purdue University)

Phonon Scattering—Machine Learning Accelerated Prediction and Impact on Thermal Properties

9:15–9:30  Alan McGaughey  (Carnegie Mellon University)

Electric Field Dependent Thermal Conductivity of GaN, AlN, and AlGaN

9:30–9:45  Takuma Hori  (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)

Fluctuation-Based Monte Carlo Method for Evaluating Thermal Conductivity of Nanostructured Materials

9:45–10:00  Tengfei Luo  (University of Notre Dame)

Multiscale Thermal Modeling for Microelectronics: From Transistor to Chip

10:00–10:30  Break

Session VI — Radiation & Photonics:   10:30–12:30

Chairs: Bo Zhao / Hiroki Gonome

10:30–11:00  Gang Chen  [Keynote]  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Ups and Downs with Mechanisms of Super-thermal Solar Interfacial Evaporation

11:00–11:15  Koji Miyazaki  (Kyushu University)

Radiative Cooling Performance of Screen-Printed BaSO₄ Films

11:15–11:30  Deyu Li  (Vanderbilt University)

Thermal transport mediated by non-equilibrium phonon polaritons

11:30–11:45  Yuhei Miyauchi  (Kyoto University)

Thermal Photonics of Structure-Sorted Carbon Nanotube Assemblies: Excitonic Thermal Radiation and Spectral Engineering

11:45–12:00  Sheng Shen  (Carnegie Mellon University)

Metamaterials Mediated Thermal Radiation Control

12:00–12:15  Atsushi Sakurai  (Niigata University)

Thermal Photonics: From Spacecraft Thermal Control to Energy Conversion

12:15–12:30  Pramod Reddy  (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Thermal radiation in nanoscale and non-reciprocal systems

12:30–13:30  Lunch   (Room 441, Bldg. 5, Department of Engineering)

Panel Session “The Next Frontier in Nanoscale Transport Phenomena”: 13:30–14:45

Moderator: Chris Dames  (University of California, Berkeley)

Panelists:

Samuel Graham  (University of Maryland)

Asegun Henry  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Ryo Yoshida  (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics)

Ken Uchida  (The University of Tokyo)

Memorial Session Honoring Professor Joseph P. Heremans:   14:45–15:15

15:30–17:30  Excursion

18:30–20:30  Banquet   (Meiji Kinenkan)

          (18:00 Doors open) 

Session VII — Phonon Physics:   8:00–10:00

Chairs: Byunggi Kim / Longji Cui

8:00–8:30  David Cahill  [Keynote]  (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Thermal expansion spectroscopy

8:30–8:45  Masahiro Nomura  (The University of Tokyo)

Beyond high thermal conductivity: phonon hydrodynamics in graphite

8:45–9:00  Li Shi  (University of Texas at Austin)

Balanced electron and phonon heat transport in metallic ε-TaN

9:00–9:15  Sebastian Volz  (The University of Tokyo)

Phonon Coherence in Heat Conduction: from Complex Solids to Liquids and Band Folding

9:15–9:30  Zhiting Tian  (Cornell University)

Innovating Thermal Transport Tools to Reveal Emerging Materials Physics

9:30–9:45  Takuma Shiga  (Toyota Technological Institute)

Effect of Hierarchical Bundling on Phonon Transport and Thermal Conductivity in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

9:45–10:00  Samuel Graham  (University of Maryland)

Tailoring Thermal Transport in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

10:00–10:30  Break

Session VIII — Soft Materials & Interfaces:   10:30–12:30

Chairs: Xi Chen / Ryosuke Takehara

10:30–11:00  Yoichi Murakami  [Keynote]  (Institute of Science Tokyo)

Heat storage, CO2 capture, and electro-mechanical applications realized by Covalent Organic Frameworks

11:00–11:15  Jonathan Malen  (Carnegie Mellon University)

Thermal conductivity measurements of single crystal covalent organic frameworks

11:15–11:30  Bin Xu  (The University of Tokyo)

Janus induced aperiodic moiré pattern for heat conduction modulation in stacked two-dimensional materials

11:30–11:45  Takanori Fukushima  (Institute of Science Tokyo)

A highly efficient and application-tailorable metal ion cluster photothermal conversion module

11:45–12:00  Jennifer Lukes  (University of Pennsylvania)

Local Diffusion Coefficients in Spherically Symmetric Systems Using the Smoluchowski Equation and Molecular Dynamics

12:00–12:15  Hosei Nagano  (Nagoya University)

Ultra-Thin Flexible Loop Heat Pipes: Enabling the Next Generation of Electronics Cooling

12:15–12:30  Kunio Fujiwara  (Osaka University)

Non-equilibrium thermal transport across a solid–liquid interface by molecular dynamics revisited

12:30–12:40  Closing Remarks