Symposium C-6: "Advanced Thermoelectric Materials for Environment-Friendly Energy Systems"
Co-organized by The Thermoelectric Society of Japan (TSJ)

Scope
Since more than 60% of the world primary energy supply has been wasted as heat, efficient utilization of heat energy by thermoelectric conversion is becoming of vital importance for sustainable energy futures. Thermoelectric cooling is also attracting keen interests as a highly flexible, completely CFC-free heat management technology. This symposium covers a broad range of topics on thermoelectric materials for environment-friendly power generation and cooling at rapidly progressing frontiers of energy conversion technology, materials science, and physics and chemistry of condense matters. The symposium will feature contributed papers as well as some invited talks particularly on the following topics (not restricted, though). Please be encouraged to contact the chairpersons for further details.

Topics
* Thermoelectrics for Sustainable Energy Futures
* State-of-the-art Thermoelectric Materials
* High Temperature Materials
* Low Temperature Materials
* Skutterudites, Clathrates, and Half-Heuslers
* Oxides and Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
* Novel Thermoelectric Materials
* Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials
* Superlattice Thermoelectrics
* Materials for Waste Heat Recovery
* Power Generation Applications
* Cooling Applications
* Module Constructions and Systems
* Others

Invited Speakers (Tentative), Dr. Thierry Caillat (Caltech/JPL, USA), Prof. George S. Nolas (University of South Florida, USA), Dr. J. W. Sharp (Marlow Industries Inc., USA), Prof. Terry M. Tritt (Clemson University, USA), Dr. E. Muller (German Aerospace Center, Germany), Prof. T. Kajikawa (Shonan Inst. Technol., Japan), Prof. D. M. Rowe (Univ. Wales, UK), Prof. M. G. Kanatzidis (Michigan State Univ., USA), Dr. A. Lambrecht (Fraunhofer -IPM, Germany), Dr. J.-P. Fleurial (JPL, USA), Dr. R. Venkatasubramanian (Research Triangle Institute, USA), Prof. M. Dresselhaus (MIT, USA), Prof. H. Scherrer (Ecole de Mines, France), Prof. K. Matsubara (Yamaguchi Tokyo Univ. Sci., Japan), Prof. I. Terasaki (Waseda Univ., Japan), Prof. M. Ohtaki (Kyushu Univ., Japan), Prof. T. Koyanagi (Yamaguchi Univ., Japan), Dr. T. Tani (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Japan), Dr. R. Funahashi (AIST, Japan), Dr. W. S. Shin (AIST, Japan), Prof. T. Kajitani (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

Chairpersons
Prof. Kunihito Koumoto¹⁾, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan
E-mail: g44233a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Prof. Michitaka Ohtaki²⁾, Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
E-mail: ohtaki@mm.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Prof. Ichiro Terasaki, Department of Applied Physics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
E-mail: terra@waseda.jp
Prof. Tsuyoshi Kajitani, Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan
E-mail: kajitani@mail.cc.tohoku.ac.jp
Dr. Ryoji Funahashi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
E-mail: funahashi-r@aist.go.jp