M. James C. Crabbe
		Emeritus Professor
		Supernumerary Fellow, Wolfson College
		President, International Engineering and  Technology Institute (IETI)
		University of Oxford
		UK
		Personal homepage
Title: The Importance of Nano-scale Omics in Attaining the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Abstract: The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.Omics techniques at the nano-scale – genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics - are critical in attaining the SDGs. Examples of their application in medicine, environmental issues on land and in the ocean, plant evolution and public health will be given. Education about these issues at all levels of the population will be vital for policy development in the future.
Mario Lanza Associate Professor Physical Science and Engineering Division Chair of the Nanotechnology Committee of the Electron Devices Society King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Saudi Arabia Personal homepage Title: Towards CMOS/2D hybrid microchips Abstract: Two-dimensional layered materials (2D-LMs) materials have outstanding physical, chemical and thermal properties that make them attractive for the fabrication of solid-state micro/nano-electronic devices and circuits. However, synthesizing high-quality 2D-LMs at the wafer scale is difficult, and integrating them in semiconductor production lines brings associated multiple challenges. Nevertheless, in the past few years substantial progress has been achieved and leading companies like TSMC, Samsung and IMEC have started to work more intensively on the fabrication of devices using 2D-LMs. In this keynote talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art on micro/nano-electronic devices made (entirely or partially) of 2D-LMs, the most sophisticated circuits ever constructed, and the fabrication of CMOS/2D hybrid microchips. I will put special emphasis on devices that employ hexagonal boron nitride, the only 2D-LM with an enough high band gap to be employed as dielectric. I will also discuss the main technological challenges to face in the next years and provide some recommendations on how to solve them.