US-EGYPT

10:00 – 11:00 am	Opening Ceremony
		Dr. Sherif H. Eissa – Egyptian Coordinator Dr. Mostafa El-Sayed – US Coordinator Dr. Samy El-Shall – US Coordinator Dr. Osman Shinaishin – NSF Senior Program Manager

11:00 – 11:30 am	Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:50 pm	First General Session:	"Nanostructured Materials"
		Chairman: Samy El-Shall

11:30 – 12:10 pm	Lecture I:	"Clusters and Cluster Assembled Materials"
		A. W. Castleman, Jr. Departments of Chemistry and Physics The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA

12:10 – 12:50 pm	Lecture II:	"Some Interesting Observed Properties of Material Confined in Time and Nanometer Space of Different Shapes"
		Mostafa El-Sayed Laser Dynamics Laboratory Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, USA 12:50 – 2:30 pm Lunch Break

12:50 – 2:30 pm	Lunch Break

2:30 – 6:10 pm	Second General Session	"Nanostructured Materials"
		Chairman: Mostafa El-Sayed

2:30 – 3:10 pm	Lecture I:	"Nanostructured Materials – Present and Future"
		Richard W. Siegel Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York, USA

3:10 – 3:50 pm	Lecture II:	"Nanoparticles from the Vapor Phase: Synthesis, Characterization And Novel Applications"
		M. Samy El-Shall Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA, USA

3:50 – 4:10 pm	Coffee Break

4:10 – 4:50 pm	Lecture III:	"Evolution of Mechanical Alloying; A Novel Technique for Fabrication of Nanocrystalline Materials"
		S. A. Ibrahim, S. El-Eskandarany and S. F. Moustafa Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Suez Canal University Suez, Egypt

4:50 – 5:30 pm	Lecture IV:	"Chemical Routes for the Preparation of Fine Precursors for Ceramic Products"
		D. M. Ibrahim Department of Ceramics National Research Center Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

5:30 – 6:10 pm	Lecture V:	"Advances in Tissue Engineering"
		Cato T. Laurencin and M. Attawia Center for Advanced Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering, Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Second Day Monday, September 25, 2000
9:00 – 1:10 pm	Third General Session	"Smart materials and Intelligent Structures"
		Chairman: Sherif Kandil

9:00 – 9:40 am	Lecture I:	"Nanotechnology in Materials"
		I. A. Aksay Department of Chemical Engineering & Princeton Materials Institute Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

9:40 – 10:20 am	Lecture II:	"Self-Assembly Of Functional Nanostructures And Microstructures From Synthetic Polymers"
		Samson A. Jenekhe Department of Chemical Engineering University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

10:20 – 10:40 am	Coffee Break

10:40 – 11:20 am	Lecture III:	"Smart Structure Systems"
		M. A. El-Shafeay Technical Military College Kobri El-Kobba, Cairo, Egypt

11:20 – 12:00 pm	Lecture IV:	"Novel Technique for Thin Film Biomedical Coating of Titanium Alloy Substrate by Hydroxyapatite"
		F. Hanna and Z. Abdul-Hamid CMRDI, Cairo, Egypt

12:00 – 12:40 pm	Lecture V:	"Damage Characteristics and Life prediction of Composite Materials"
		B. M. Rabeeh Technical Military College Kobri El-Kobba, Cairo, Egypt

12:40 – 1:10 pm		*"Overview of Materials Research Program at NSF"*
		W. Lance Haworth: Executive Officer Division of Materials Research David L. Nelson: Program Director Solid State Chemistry National Science Foundation Arlington, Virginia, USA

1:10 – 2:30 pm	Lunch Break

US Scientists visit the Egyptian Museum in the afternoon and Light and Sound in evening if in English. Otherwise, we visit in early evening with daylight.

Third Day Tuesday, September 26, 2000
9:00 – 12:30 pm	Fourth General Session	"Photonics, Thin Films and Magnetic Materials"
		Chair: Z. Kafafi

9:00 – 9:40 am	Lecture I:	"New Generation Nanostructued Materials For Photonics"
		Paras N. Prasad Department of Chemistry and Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics State University of New York Buffalo, NY, USA

9:40 – 10:20 am	Lecture II:	"Low-Loss Epitaxial Dielectric Thin Films For Microwave Devices"
		A.M. Hermann Department of Physics University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA

10:20 – 10:40 am	Coffee Break

	Fourth General Session Cont.	Chair: Mahmoud Abdel Kader

10:40 – 11:20 am	Lecture III:	"Organic Electroluminescent Displays for the 21^st Century"
		Z. H. Kafafi U. S. Naval research Laboratory Washington DC, USA

11:20 – 12:00 pm	Lecture IV:	"Sol-Gel Technique for Preparation of Thin Films and Photocatalysts"
		A.Ibrahim and M. S. Ahmed CMRDI, Cairo, Egypt

12:00 – 12:30 pm		"Overview of Materials Engineering Program at NSF"
		Jorn Larsen-Basse Program Director Surface Engineering and Materials Design National Science Foundation Arlington, Virginia, USA

US visitors and potential Egyptian collaborators and organizers go to Khan El-Khalili in the afternoon and Nile Cruise in the evening

Fourth Day Wednesday, September 27, 2000

9:00 – 1:10 pm	Fifth General Session	"Electronic and High Performance Materials"
		Chairman: Hassan Talaat

9:00 – 9:40 am	Lecture I:	"Defect-Tolerant Molecular Nanoelectronics"
		R. Stanley Williams Basic Research Department Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, California, USA

9:40 – 10:20 am	Lecture II:	"Amorphous Electronic Materials"
		A.A. Bahgat Department of Physics Al-Azhar University Cairo, Egypt

10:20 – 11:00 am	Lecture III:	"Ceramic Metal Joints, A High Performance New Material for Advanced Applications"
		M. Hanafy CMRDI, Cairo, Egypt

11:00 – 11:20 pm	Coffee Break

11:20 – 12:00 pm	Lecture IV:	"Structural And Magnetic States In Layered Cmr Manganites: An Expanding View Of The Magnetic Phase Diagram"
		J.F. Mitchell Materials Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL, USA

12:00 – 12:40 pm	Lecture IV:	"Grain-Boundary Interfacial Effects and Microstructurally Induced Failure Evolution in Porous Crystalline Aggregates "
		M. A. Zikry Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, USA

12:40 – 1:10 pm		"Overview of International Program at NSF & US – Egypt Collaboration in Science and Technology"
		Osman Shinaishin Senior Program Manager North Africa, Near East and South Asia National Science Foundation Arlington, Virginia, USA

1:10 – 2:30 pm	Lunch Break

All afternoon is used for discussions between collaborators & Preparation of joint projects

Fifth Day Thursday, September 28, 2000

Finalize the writing of the possible proposals This might go through the afternoon into the evening if necessary