Monday, January 22, 2007

8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Opening Remarks
Edgar Lara-Curzio, Chair of Engineering Ceramics Division

9:00 AM
(ICACC-PL-001-2007) Ceramic Composites Based on Crack-Deflecting Oxide Fiber-Coatings: Progress and Application Strategies (Invited)
Ronald Kerans*, Air Force Research Lab, Materials Directorate, USA

9:40 AM
(ICACC-PL-002-2007) Development of Silicon Nitride Ceramics for Bearing Applications: Current Status and Future Prospects (Invited)
Katsutoshi Komeya*, Yokohama National University, Japan

10:20 AM
(ICACC-PL-003-2007) Advancement and Future of GaN-based Solid State Lighting
Shuji Nakamura, University of California – Santa Barbara, USA

11:00 AM
The President's Advanced Energy Initiative
John Mizroch, Department of Energy, USA

Dr. Katsutoshi Komeya
Yokohama National University
Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences
Japan

Katsutoshi Komeya is professor of the Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences at Yokohama National University, Japan. Komeya received a BS degree in 1962 from Yokohama National University, and a PhD in 1977 from Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Komeya was employed at Toshiba R&D Center and Toshiba New Materials Laboratory as a ceramic researcher during 1962-89. After 1989 he had the position of associate professor for three years in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Yokohama National University. Komeya has accomplished many research activities from seeds innovation to applications development in nitride ceramics, especially silicon nitride, aluminum nitride and sialons.

Komeya is the author or coauthor of more than 150 technical papers and more than 40 books. He holds more than 200 Japanese and more than 20 US patents. He received the Richard M. Fulrath Award in 1984 and is a Fellow and member of the Engineering Ceramics Division of The American Ceramic Society.

Dr. Ronald J. Kerans
Research Group Leader, Ceramics Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory
USA

Ronald Kerans is Research Group Leader for Ceramics in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. Kearns earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Wright State University under H. Mitchell Simpson, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in metallurgical engineering from The Ohio State University under John Hirth and William Clark.

Kearns has performed research in design of ceramic composite systems, fiber/matrix interface mechanics in ceramic composites, fiber coatings for interface property control, environmental effects in ceramics, dislocations and grain boundary structure in intermetallics, alloying of refractory carbides, and dislocation-point defect interactions. Research on interface control in composites has been the primary focus of his Group’s research.

Kearns has authored over 150 publications and invited presentations and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of The American Ceramic Society. Kerans is a Fellow of the Air Force Research Laboratory and a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society.

Dr. Shuji Nakamura
University of California Santa Barbara
Materials Department
USA

Shuji Nakamura is a professor of the Materials Department of the University of California Santa Barbara. Nakamura obtained B.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokushima in Japan. Nakamura joined Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd. and then spent a year at the University of Florida as a visiting research associate. In 1989 he started the research of blue LEDs using group-III nitride materials. In 1993 and 1995 he developed the first group-III nitride-based blue/green LEDs and also developed the first group-III nitride-based violet laser diodes (LDs).

Nakamura has received a number of awards, including: the Nishina Memorial Award (1996), MRS Medal Award (1997), IEEE Jack A. Morton Award, the British Rank Prize (1998) and Benjamin Franklin Medal Award (2002) and was elected as the member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2003. Nakamura received the Millennium Technology Prize in 2006, holds more than 100 patents, and has published more than 200 papers in this field.

John Mizroch joined the Department of Energy from his previous position as President and CEO of the World Environment Center (WEC). At the WEC, he worked to advance sustainable development by encouraging environmental leadership, helping improve health and safety practices worldwide, and fostering the efficient use of natural resources to protect the global environment.

Prior to leading the WEC, Mizroch promoted environmental technology transfer and investment in the developing world including Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Mizroch has also been a member of the Trade and Environmental Policy Advisory Committee at the U.S. Trade Representative's Office and also served on the Cleaner Fossil Fuel Systems Advisory Committee of the World Energy Council.

Mizroch, an attorney, has served as a Foreign Service officer in South Africa, a senior official at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Reagan and Bush administrations, and as a senior advisor to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.

Mizroch received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Virginia and a law degree from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.