Singapore–MIT Alliance
The 7th SMA Annual Symposium will be held in NTU at the Auditorium, School of Art, Design and Media and at the Nanyang Executive Centre. The theme for this year's symposium is 'Opportunities in Emerging Technologies and Markets'. Programme highlights include addresses by prominent leaders in research and industry, and presentations by faculty, research fellows and graduate students.
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| Day 1 Tuesday January 23, 2007 |
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| Venue:
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Plenary Session Location: Auditorium, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration & Refreshments Guests are requested to be seated by 08:45 |
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| 09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome Dr SU Guaning President, NTU |
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| 09:10 - 09:30 | Directors' Messages Professor Hardy CHAN SMA Co-Director, Singapore Professor Steve LERMAN SMA Acting Co-Director, MIT |
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| 09:30 - 09:50 | Guest-of-Honour & Keynote Speaker Chair: Professor SHIH Choon Fong President, NUS Speaker: Mr S ISWARAN Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore |
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| 9:50 - 10:15 | Distinguished Speaker Chair: Professor Thomas L MAGNANTI Dean, School of Engineering, MIT Speaker: Dr Desh DESHPANDE Co-Founder & Chairman of Sycamore Networks, Inc. |
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| 10:15 - 10:20 | Memento presentation to Mr S ISWARAN by Professor SHIH Choon Fong Memento presentation to Dr Desh DESHPANDE by Professor Thomas L MAGNANTI |
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| 10:20 - 10:40 | Refreshment | ||
| 10:40 - 11:40 | Panel Discussion Theme: Opportunities in Emerging Technologies and Markets Moderator: A/P WONG Poh Kam Director, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre; Associate Professor, NUS Business School and LKY School of Public Policy Panelists: Mr Illac Angelo DIAZ Executive Director, CentroMigrante, Philippines Dr LAN Wei Guang Managing Director, Sinomem Technology Ltd Mr LEE Kok Choy President, TECH Semiconductor Singapore Pte Ltd Mr Matthew S OROSZ Founder & Chief Engineer, Solar Turbine Group International Professor Dave WALLACE Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Dr Kurnia WIRA Technical & Executive Director, NanoScience Innovation Pte Ltd |
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| 11:40 - 12:15 | Panel Q&A | ||
| 12:15 - 12:20 | Memento presentation to Panelists | ||
| 12:20 - 13:15 | Lunch |
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| End of Plenary Session | |||
| Technical Programme (Parallel Sessions) Location: Nanyang Executive Centre, NTU** |
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| 13:15 - 13:30 | Registration | ||
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Presentations (i) Advanced Materials for Micro- and Nano-Systems (AMM&NS)* (ii) Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering (CPE)* & Molecular Engineering of Biological and Chemical Systems (MEBCS)† (iii) Computation and Systems Biology (CSB)* (iv) Computational Engineering (CE)* (v) Computer Science (CS)† (vi) Manufacturing Systems and Technology (MST)* |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Refreshment | ||
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Presentations | ||
| 17:00 | End of Technical Programme for Day 1 | ||
| 17:30 - 19:00 | Reception | ||
| Day 2 Wednesday January 24, 2007 |
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| Venue: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Technical Programme (Advanced Materials for Micro- and Nano-Systems only) Location: Nanyang Executive Centre, NTU |
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| 08:15 - 08:30 | Registration | ||
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Presentations | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Refreshments | ||
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Presentations | ||
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch & Poster Session | ||
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Presentations | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Refreshments | ||
| 16:30 - 18:15 | Presentations | ||
| 18:15 | End of Technical Programme Day 2 |
† SMA-1 Programmes
* SMA-2 Programmes
** Shuttle Bus Service will be provided from the School of Art, Design and Media front porch to Nanyang Executive Centre for the Technical Programme (Parallel Sessions) 13:00 - 13:15.
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