3^rd International Conference on Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics October 19-21, 2017 New York, USA

Harry Ruda is Director of the Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology, the Stanley Meek Chair in Nanotechnology, and Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. The Centre is Canada’s first nanotechnology centre. From 1984 to 1989 he was a senior scientist at 3M Corporation, developing some of the first models for electronic transport and optical properties of wide bandgap II-VI semiconductors, while being a key member of the blue laser team. From 1982 to 1984 he developed one of the first theories for electron transport in selectively doped two dimensional electron gas heterostructures while working as an IBM postdoctoral fellow. From 1979 to 1982 he worked on optical and transport properties of II-VI based infrared detector materials and obtained his PhD from MIT in 1982. Professor Ruda has published over 250 publications in international refereed journals (with over 4,021 SCI citations; h=29), has co-authored 4 books and has 14 patents. Professor Ruda’s research interests focus on the fabrication and modeling of quantum functional nanostructures with applications in the fields of nanoelectronics and nanophotonics. Some notable contributions include one of the first theories of carrier transport in selectively doped quantum heterostructures, theories for the non-linear optical response of asymmetric quantum heterostructures, models for the dynamics of quantum neural networks, as well as reports on the preparation of selfassembled quantum heterostructures by molecular beam epitaxy and using ion beam processing for photonic crystal device development. In addition, his contributions include the development of novel characterization techniques for semiconductor and dielectric nanostructures (photonic crystals) based on pump and probe surface photovoltage measurements. Harry Ruda is one of the founders of a Canadian National Centre of Excellence in Photonics. He serves on the National Science and Engineering Council of Canada and on other government panels including those of the DOE, EPA and NSF in the US, and the RAE and EPSRC in the UK. He also has served on the editorial boards of: Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, and the Nanotechnology Research Letters. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology.

fabrication, modeling understanding of behaviour of quantum functional nanostructures and their applications to nanoelectronics and nanophotonics.

Professor Idzerda is currently interested in the physics of reduced dimensionality systems, especially in their interfacial and nanostructured behavior in the oxide materials including half-metallic ferromagnets, multi-ferroics, and components of solid oxide fuel cells.HIs interests include research on ultra-thin film and interface magnetism of itinerant electron magnetic systems and in novel characterization techniques that have strong magnetic contrast. Part of his research includes magnetic nanoparticles and exploiting polarized X-rays to obtain unique knowledge of the behavior of magnetic thin films and surfaces. Some of his research is performed at the Addvanced Light Source (ALS).

magnetic nanoparticles and exploiting polarized X-rays to obtain unique knowledge of the behavior of magnetic thin films and surfaces. Some of his research is performed at the Addvanced Light Source (ALS).

Dr. Michael Roth is a computational Physicist and Professor and Chair at Northern Kentucky University’s Department of Physics, Geology and Engineering Technology. Dr. Roth has numerous publications and presentations in the field of dynamics and surface phase transitions of atomic and molecular systems adsorbed onto graphene and graphite. Other interests include classical astrophysical simulations of planetary formation as well as Material Point Method simulations of impact and material stress and failure.

Physics, Geology and Engineering Technology,surface phase transitions of atomic and molecular systems

Professor Devki N. Talwar, is a Distinguished University Professor in the Physics Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), USA and conducts research on defects in semiconductor materials used in various electronics and opto-electronics applications. He has been with IUP for almost thirty years, and is the author of more than 135 refereed journal articles, four book chapters and more than 80 international conference presentations. He served as an Organizer in nine International Conferences organized by Materials Research Society, USA; Singapore; 5th World Congress on Materials Science and Engineering – Spain; Optics 2016; Mesoscopic Condensed Matter Physics, and Condensed Matter Physics -USA. He was invited as Honorary Guest member in Science Conclave with Nobel Laureates at IIIT-Allahabad from 2009-2014 and delivered Keynote addresses at Moscow Institute of Science and Technology and many other international conferences. His expertise in the sophisticated Green’s function technique is considered very useful for providing information on the electronic and vibrational properties of defects in semiconductors, quantum wells, and superlattices. He is recognized by the international community as a prolific researcher.

Defect characterizations in III-V, II-VI and III-N semiconductors by optical spectroscopy (infrared, Raman and Photoluminescence). Lattice dynamics study of bulk and low dimensional structured materials, Band structure calculations of III-V semiconductors and superlattices.

Avik Ghosh is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia. He has over 100 refereed papers and book chapters and 2 upcoming books in the areas of computational nano-electronics and low power devices including 2D materials, molecular electronics, low-power devices, nanomagnetism, photodetectors and nanoscale heat flow. Ghosh did his PhD in physics from the Ohio State University and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), senior member of the IEEE, and has received the IBM Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, a best paper award from the Army Research Office, the Charles Brown New Faculty Teaching Award and the VA's all University Teaching Award. His group's research on observing negative index behavior in raphene was voted by Physics World as one of the top-10 Breakthroughs of 2016.

Condensed Matter Physics

Sergey Kravchenko has completed his PhD in 1988 from Institute of Solid State Physics, Russia. Since 1998, he is a Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. His discovery of the metallic state in 2D was listed among 50 main discoveries of the last century in the field of mesoscopic physics.

Mesoscopic physics, Condensed Matter Physicvs

Joseph Poon is William Barton Rogers Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia. He received his BS and PhD from Caltech and was did postdoc work at Stanford University. He has published 200+ papers. His current research is on magnetic films and thermoelectric materials. He previously worked on metallic glasses and quasicrystals.

magnetic films and thermoelectric materials

Dr. Mehdi Anwar currently serves as a Full Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. As a Jefferson Science Fellow he served as Special Adviser for Technology Transfer and Innovation in the office of Intellectual Property Enforcement, Economic Bureau, U. S. Department of State. He worked on number of issues, including the United Nations High Level Panel on Access to Medicines and a new investment facilitator tool, “WIPO Match.” As the Special Adviser for Technology Transfer and Innovation, he was invited to discuss technology transfer at workshop on Building Bridges: Sharing Best Practices on Commercialization of Technology, in Warsaw, Poland, an event put together by U. S. Embassy Warsaw in partnership with Swiss and Canadian Embassies and several Polish institutions. At present, Dr. Anwar is assisting U. S. Department of State and other U. S. Government organizations and the United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States to stand up the newly established United Nations Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries.

Carrier localization in one-dimensional structures, transport in semiconductor devices; impurity diagnostics in quantum well structures and Silicon nanowires; Sb-based type-II infrared detectors; noise in semiconductor devices; power performance of GaN-based HFETs and circuits; metamorphic HEMTs, high power quantum cascade lasers.

DR. Jose Alberto Perez Benitez has completed his PhD at the age of 33 years from University of Oriente in Cuba and postdoctoral studies from University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and University of Aveiro in Portugal. He is professor of postgraduation of Electronic Engineering at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals in the area of Barkhausen Effect, electromagnetic nondestructive methods and machine learning.

Ferromagnetism, Barkhausen Effect, Electromagnetic Nondestructive Methods and Machine Learning applied to magnetic materials characterization

Leonardo Dos Santos Lima has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from Federal University of Minas Gerais and postdoctoral studies from Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. He is Professor of Physics in Department of Physics of Mathematics of Federal Center of Technological Education of Minas Gerais – CEFET-MG. He has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Quantum Field Theory applied in Condensed Mater Physics, Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, acting on the subjects: Spin Transport, Quantum Phase Transition Spin superfluidity.

Nicola Pugno is an Assistant Professor, 1999-2005, Politecnico theTorino Associate Professor, 2005-2011, Politecnico theTorino Full Professor, 2012-, University of Trento, Full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Trento (Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering); Scientific Responsible of Graphene Nanocomposites at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Centre of Materials and Microsystems); Full Professor of Materials Science at the Queen Mary University of London (School of Engineering and Materials Science); Founder of the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics "Giuseppe Maria Pugno" at Politecnico di Torino; Founder and Director of the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired & Graphene Nanomechanics at the University of Trento, Launched thanks to the European Research Council; Featuring in Famous Alumni of the Politecnico di Torino and in Top Italian Scientist in Engineering (top 100 most cited, see Google Scholar).

1. Bio-inspired hierarchical super nanomaterials (e.g. self-healing) 2. Super-strong graphene, nanotubes and related bundles and composites (e.g. flaw tolerant space elevator cables) 3. Smart adhesion of insects, spiders and geckos and related gecko-inspired nanostructured surfaces (e.g. Spiderman suits) 4. Self-cleaning & anti-adhesive super-hydrophobic leaves and related lotus-inspired nanostructured surfaces (e.g. anti-ice) 5. Spider-silk and web and related inspired super-tough materials and structures (e.g. anticatastrophes) 6. Design and fabrication ofNano Electro Mechanical Systems (e.g. nanotubes or graphene based) 7. Hierarchical fibre bundle models, ropes, tissues and cellular solids (e.g. role ofhierarchy) 8. Graphene nanoscrolls and related systems (e.g. nanomotors) 9. Nanomedicine: tumor cellular growth, nanovector therapeutics and scaffolds for the regenerative medicine (e.g. flexible nanovectors) lO. Nanoindentation and related size- and shape-effects (e.g. universal scaling laws on hardness) Il. Quantized Fracture Mechanics, in quasi-static, dynamic and fatigue regimes (e.g. role of defects in graphene) 12. Nanoscale Weibull & Fractal Statistics and related size-effects on material strength (e.g. nanotubes statistics) 13. Multiscale fragmentation under impact and explosions and structural dynamics (e.g. universal scaling laws on energy dissipation)

Matteo Tonezzer received his PhD degree “cum laude” in Physics at the University of Trento (Italy) in 2011. He won the Young Scientist Award from the European Materials Research Society (EMRS) and worked in research centers in France (ESRF), Brazil (UFMG), Vietnam (HUST), Italy (INFM) and USA (GeorgiaTech). He currently works for IMEM in the Italian National Research Council, authored more than twenty papers on international journals, is reviewer for 25 international peer-review journals, editor of international peer-review journals, organizer and chairman of international conferences. His main area of interest concerns the sensing properties of nanostructured organic and inorganic materials.

Materials Science, Materials Physics, Experimental Physics and Nano Technology

Rikio Konno has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from University of Tokyo and postdoctoral studies from Tsukuba University. He is the Science Section Head of Kindai University Technical College, a famous college based on Kindai University in Japan. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals. He won the International Plato Award for the Educational Achievement, the Order of International Fellowship Golden Peace Prize, and Ultimate Achiever Award for Science-Certificate in 2009.

He is interested in magnetism and superconductivity of U compounds and transition metal compounds.

Vladimr Filinov is Doctor Phys&Math. Sc., Prof.. Education: Moscow Power Engineering Institute , M. Sc.degree in Physical Optics, Moscow State University, M. Sc.degree in Mathematics. He is a principal researcher in Joint Institute for High Temperatures Russian Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as Organizing Committee Member of several International conferences.

(I) Computational methods of quantum statistical mechanics and theory of wave propagation in random media. (II) Computational physics (Monte Carlo methods) and Perturbation theory of dense gases, classical and magnetic fluids, quantum dense plasma and solid state. (III)Complex-valued Monte Carlo method and path integrals for solving stationary and non stationary quantum problems. (IV)Quantum molecular dynamics methods for solving Wigner - Liouville equations. (V) Tomographic representation of quantum mechanics. (VI) Strongly correlated dusty plasma (VII) Strongly correlated quantum electromagnetic and quark – gluon plasmas

Received his Ph. D from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada in 2008. After graduation he worked as post doctoral fellow in the same group. In October 2009, he joined the photonic group and the institute of optical sciences at the University of Toronto where he works as a research fellow. In September 2011, he joined the Department of Physics, the American university in Cairo (AUC). He authored more than 175 technical papers in highly ranked journals and conferences. He also hold 2 patents, a book, and book chapter in these areas. Dr. Swillam is an editor in few international Journals He is also member of the editorial board of many conferences He is also a senior member of the IEEE Photonic society since 2010. He is the founder and the advisor of the optical society of America and SPIE chapters at the AUC and the vice president of the Egyptian Unit.

Design optimization and fabrication of active and passive nanophotonic and plasmonic devices and systems, silicon photonics, optical interconnects, integrated on- chip optical systems, lab on chip, nano-antenna, metamaterials, and solar cells. The main applications include biomedical systems, energy harvesting, and telecommunications.

Vladimir V. Rumyantsev is Head of Department of Theory of Complex Systems Dynamic Properties at A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering (DonIPE). He is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Nanotechnology Department at Donetsk National University (DonNU). He received PhD in Theoretical Physics (1988) from DonNU and Dr. Sci. in Condensed Matter Physics (2007) from DonIPE. Prof. Rumyantsev has authored/co-authored 4 books, 2 chapters in books and more than 230 scientific publications. He is a member of the American Physical Society as well as Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP, Italy) and Editor-in-Chiff of Journal of Photonic Materials and Technology (Science PG, USA).

Current research interests include various aspects of solid state physics, crystallooptics, photonics; more particularly - theoretical study of the effects of disorder in quasi-two-dimensional nanofilms and layered structures caused by the propagation of electromagnetic and acoustic excitations, light-matter coupling in composite nanostructures.

Prof. Ajay Kumar Mishra is currently working as Professor at Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Unit, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa, Florida Science Campus, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also working as “Adjunct Professor” at Jiangsu University, China. Prof. Mishra has pursued PhD in Chemistry from Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. In 2006, he moved to the University of Free State, South Africa for Postdoctoral studies in the area of composites/nanocomposites. Later in 2009 Prof. Mishra has joined Department of Applied Chemistry as Senior Lecturer where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. Prof. Mishra is currently group leader of the research area for the composites/nanocomposites, water research and bio-inorganic chemistry. He has hosted several visiting researchers/scientists/postdocs in his group. Prof. Mishra has also developed a number of collaborations worldwide. His research contribution includes many publications in international journals. He has delivered a number of including Plenary/Keynote/Invited Lectures. For his outstanding research profile, he was awarded a number of awards. Prof. Mishra also served as Associate Editor as well as member of the editorial board of many international journals. He has edited several books by the renowned publishers. He has been reviewing a number of international journals and member of a number of scientific societies.

His research contribution includes many publications in international journals. He has delivered a number of including Plenary/Keynote/Invited Lectures. For his outstanding research profile, he was awarded a number of awards. Prof. Mishra also served as Associate Editor as well as member of the editorial board of many international journals. He has edited several books by the renowned publishers. He has been reviewing a number of international journals and member of a number of scientific societies.

Dr. Azher Majid Siddiqui is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi 110025, INDIA. He completed PhD at School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, INDIA, under the supervision of Professor Anand P Pathak. He worked as a Research Associate with Dr. D. K. Avasthi, in the Materials Science Group at the Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC) (formerly known as: Nuclear Science Centre, NSC,), New Delhi, INDIA. He has over 50 papers to his account in International Journals of repute. He has supervised two students so far for their Ph. D. and 5 students are currently registered with him to carry out their Ph. D. Dr. Azher Majid has presented his papers in about 20 conferences and has also taken up 3 Major Research Projects from various sponsoring agencies like UGC and IUAC.

Material Science, Theoretical Physics