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Workshop on Carbon Nanotube in Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of its Discovery ("2011-CNT20")

December 12-13, 2011, Tokyo (The International House of Japan)

This year, 2011, is the 20th anniversary year of the carbon nanotube which was discovered in 1991 [S. Iijima, Nature vol.354, 56 (1991)]. Ever since its discovery, the progress in this field has been enormous. Especially, during the last decade, the chiral-index dependent detailed electronic properties have been clarified both theoretically and experimentally. In this 20th anniversary workshop, not only the newest results in the field of carbon nanotubes and related nanostructured materials will be presented but also the future direction of this most important field of nanoscience and nanotechnology will be discussed as well.

The workshop is supported by three research grants of the Ministry of Education (MEXT, Japan):

  1. Theory Group of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority
    Areas "Carbon Nanotube Nano-electronics"
  2. Physics Global Center of Excellence Program of the Tokyo Institute
    of Technology, "Nanoscience and Quantum Physics"
  3. Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Materials
    Design through Computics: Complex Correlation and Non-equilibrium
    Dynamics"

and also by the following institutes:

  1. NEC Corporation
  2. Foundation Advanced Technology Institute

Advisory Board:

Marvin L. Cohen (University of California, Berkeley)
Sumio Iijima (Meijo University, AIST, NEC)

Organizing Committee:

Yoji Achiba (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Tsuneya Ando (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Susumu Okada (Tsukuba University)
Atsushi Oshiyama (University of Tokyo)
Susumu Saito (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Yahachi Saito (Nagoya University)
Katsumi Tanigaki (Tohoku University)

Partial list of Invited speakers:

Pulickel M. Ajayan (Rice University)
Mildred S. Dresselhaus (MIT)
Morinobu Endo (Shinshu University)
Sumio Iijima (Meijo University, AIST, NEC)
Hiromichi Kataura (AIST)
Junichiro Kono (Rice University)
Takashi Mizutani (Nagoya University)
Fumiyuki Nihey (TASC-AIST, NEC)
Riichiro Saito (Tohoku University)
Hisanori Shinohara (Nagoya University)
Mathias Steiner (IBM, Yorktown Hights)
Mitsuhide Takekoshi (Columbia University)
David Tomanek (Michigan State University)
Alex Zettl (University of California, Berkeley)