List of Topics:

• Charge related phenomena in dielectrics (charge injection, transport & trapping)
• Thermally stimulated current & dielectric relaxation
• Nanoscale measurements of electrostatic phenomena
• Ferroelectric, piezoelectric & pyroelectric phenomena
• Ferroelectrets & photoelectrets
• Electrostatic & dielectric phenomena in life science: bioelectrets
• Non-linear electrical & optical effects
• Applications of thin-film ferroelectric materials
• Electrets in organic electronics
• Soft actuators & sensors
• Functional materials and dielectrics
   

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Yang Cao - University of Connecticut, USA
• Sarah Guerin – University of Limerick, Ireland
• Takeo Furukawa – Kobayasi Institute, Tokyo, Japan
• Reimund Gerhard – University of Potsdam, Germany
• Stéphane Hole - ESPCI Paris, France
• Christoph Keplinger - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
• Hiroyuki Mitsuya  - Saginomiya Seisakusyo Inc., Japan
• Bernd Ploss - University of Applied Sciences Jena, Germany
• Yuji Suzuki – University of Tokyo, Japan
• Yuya Tanaka  - Gunma University, Japan
• Kai Tao - Zhejiang University, China
• Christiane Thielemann – TH Aschaffenburg, Germany
• Jan van Turnhout - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Heinz von Seggern - Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (Bernhard Gross Memorial Lecture)
• Thulasinath Raman Venkatesan – EMPA, Switzerland
• Michael Wübbenhorst - KU Leuven, Belgium

Workshop: Electroactive polymers and electrets for soft transducers (September, 22)

• Marco Fontana - Institute of Mechanical Intelligence, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
• Florian Hartmann - EPFL-LMTS, Neuchatel, Switzerland
• Ellen Rumley - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
• Naoji Matsuhisa - University of Tokyo, Japan
• Giacomo Moretti - University of Trento, Italy