ISTS'07 is now history. Please mark your calendars for ISTS'09, September 13-19, 2009. ISTS'07 attendees have received instructions concerning availability of presentations. We hope to see all of you in Kalamata in September 2009!

Final Agenda

   
     
     
 

 Monday, June 18, 2007
 
     
09:00 - 13:00

Jack Judy, Emeritus, University of Minnesota
 
 

 Media
 
     

 
Jack Judy/Professor Emeritus, Univ of Minnesota - A critical look at the possible choices

 
Kazuhiro Ouchi / Professor, Akita University - In the beginning there was CoCr 

 
Masaaki Futamoto / Professor - Chuo Univ.- Contributions to the Technological Development of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording

 
Hiroaki Muraoka/Professor, Tohoku University - Granular and CGC PMR Media

 
Jianping Wang / Professor, Univ of MN - Exchange coupled composite media for future magnetic recording 

 
Dimitris Niarchos/Director, NCSR Demokritos - L10- FePt/CoPt
  Yoshiyuki Kamata / Toshiba Corp. - Self-organized Patterned Media for Beyond Terabits/inch2

 
Josef Fidler / Professor, Technical Univ. of Vienna - Magnetic Dot and Antidot Structures for Tb/in2 Recording

 
Hartmut Rohrmann, Oerlikon BZ - Multilayers and Granular Films on Nanospheres - An Approach for Patterned Media
   
     
     
17:00 - 19:30

Ted Schwarz, Peregrine Technologies
 
 

 Tape
 
     

 
Ted Schwarz / Peregrine Technologies - Overview

 
Seiichi Onodera / SONY Corp - Higher Recording Density Potential of Improved A-ME Tape Media

 
Bob Raymond / SUN Microsystems - Tape Drive Roadmap - Trends and Challenges

 
Dennis Speliotis, KLA- Tencor - Barium Ferrite Tape Makes a Comeback

 
Steinar Strand / TRT Consulting - Norway - The next Generation Tape Technology
     
20:00 - 22:00

Cultural Program
 
     

 
The Archimedes Palimpsest - the invention of Calculus in the third century BC - a video presentation and discussion / Greta Xristofilopoulou (who is writing a book on Archimedes)  

 
The Antikythera Mechanism - a high precision astronomical computer from the first century BC / Dr Yanis Bitsakis, University of Athens
     
 

Dr Iwasaki was presented a parchment by the city of Kalamata on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his invention of Perpendicular Recording. This honor was bestowed by Deputy Mayor Nikos Basakidis on behalf of the Mayor of Kalamata, Panagiotis Nikas, who was unable to attend the award ceremony on account of illness. Following the Cultural Program, all attendees were treated to a traditional Greek welcome dinner. The award ceremony and excerpts of the Cultural Program were covered by Greek television.

 
     
 

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
 
     
09:00 - 13:00

Bob Rottmayer/Seagate Research
 
 

 Heads
 
     

 
Bob Rottmayer/Seagate Research - Overview

 
Dieter Suess / Technical Univ. of Vienna - Head Switching Speeds - What are their Limits?

 
Mike Mallary/Seagate Research for Jimmy Zhu / Carnegie Mellon Univ. - Microwave - assisted Magnetic Recording and Head Design Considerations
  Mike Mallary /Seagate Research - The Future of Perpendicular Write Heads

 
Hiroaki Muraoka and Kiyoshi Yamakawa/Tohoku University - High field single-pole heads and future extendability
     

 
Debasis Baral/Samsung Information Systems America- Development and Applications of Hybrid Hard Disk Drives
     
   
   
     
     
17:00 - 19:30

Dennis Speliotis/KLA-Tencor Corp
 

Metrology
 
     
  Dennis Speliotis/KLA-Tencor Corp - Introduction and Overview  

 
Ferenc Vajda /KLA-Tencor Corp. - Magnetic Metrology for GMR/TMR Heads, MRAM, Perpendicular Media and Beyond

 
George Bellesis / KLA-Tencor Corp - Non-Contact, Non-Destructive Mrt Disk Mapper For Perpendicular Media

 
Bill Evarts / Integral Solutions Intl Corp. - Quality Assurance Testing of PMR Components
     
     
 

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
 
     
17:00 - 20:00

Roger Wood / HGST, and P C Hariharan / Consultant
 

 

From Rotating- to Solid-State- to 3D-Storage?: Brainstorming the Future
 
     

 
Roger/Hari - Suitably Provocative Introduction

 
Gordon Knight / Nanochip, Inc - Probe-based storage: mechanical access on a nano-scale
  Gordon Knight / Nanochip, Inc. - Semiconductor/Flash Memory Overview

 
Stuart Parkin / IBM Research and Stanford Univ. - Racetrack Memory: extending MRAM into the 3rd-dimension

 
Russell Cowburn / Imperial College - London UK - Domain wall shift registers for 3-dimensional volume storage

 
Peter Rentzepis / Univ. of CA at Irvine - TeraByte volumetric disk storage: Materials and systems
  Brain-Storming discussion- novel methods of storing magnetic bits: domains, domain-walls, biomagnetic, etc.novel methods of moving magnetic bits? (any lessons from bubbles?)other ideas too embarrassing to talk about!  
     
   
     
 

Thursday, June 21, 2007
 
     
08:30 - 11:30

Hal Rosen/Hitachi Research
 
 

Nano-bio-magnetic Horizons
 
     

 
Kannan Krishnan / Univ. of Washington - Biomedical nanomagnetics: diagnostics, imaging and therapy using functionalized nanoparticles

 
George Hadjipanayis / Univ. of Delaware - Magnetic Nanoparticles for the Detection and Treatment of Cancer

 
Shan Wang / Stanford Univ.- Nanomagnetic biosensors: status and outlook

 
Axel Hoffmann / Argonne Natl. Lab - Biomagnetic Sensing via Brownian Motion

 
Des Mapps / Univ. of Plymouth - UK - Remote Magnetic Sensing of People

 
Hal Rosen / Hitachi Research - Are there still eight orders of magnitude effects left? Nano-Bio example
     

 
Bill Messner / Carnegie Mellon Univ. - A new microactuator for skew compensation In disk drives
  Bill Messner / Carnegie Mellon Univ. - Flangeless Tape Guidance
     
     
11:30 - 13:30

 Stuart Parkin/IBM Almaden and Stanford University
 
 

Spintronics
 
     
  Stuart Parkin /IBM Research - Almaden and Stanford Univ. - Spin Torque and Spin Injection  

 
Yiannis Theodonis / National Technical Univ. - Athens, Greece - Spin Transfer Torque in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

 
Stavros Komineas / Max Plank Institute - Dresden, Germany - Propagating Solitary Waves in Magnetic Nanowires
     
     
17:00 - 19:00 Dennis Speliotis/KLA-Tencor Technology Consultant, Moderator  
  Storage Technology: Retrospective and Prospective  

 

Panel:

  • Shunichi Iwasaki/ President - Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, Japan
  • Kazuhiro Ouchi / Univ. of Akita, Akita, Japan
  • Jack Judy / Professor Emeritus, Univ. of MN
  • Mark Kryder / Professor, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
 

 
Mark Kryder/Carnegie Mellon Univ - Storage Architecture Evolution

 
Tom Coughlin/Coughlin Consulting - New Applications Enabled by High Capacity Storage
     
  Our heartfelt thanks to the generous people of Kalamata for their warm welcome. Thanks also to the friendly, courteous and helpful staff of the Elite Hotel, and to the Mayor, aldermen and city council of Kalamata for their help and hospitality.