Tutorials and Short Courses  
Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR) 
Richard Ruby and John Larson 
Avago Technologies 
U.S.A. 
 
Materials and Material Systems for Acoustic Wave Devices 
Manfred Weihnacht 
IFW Dresden 
Germany 
 
Microwave Acoustic Sensors 
Enrico Verona 
O.M. Corbino Institute of Acoustics - National Research Council (CNR) 
Italy 
 
Therapeutic Ultrasound 
Lawrence  A. Crum, Joo Ha Hwang, and Michael R. Balley 
Applied Physics Lab., University  of Washington 
Seattle , U.S.A. 
 
Ultrasonic NDE and Industrial Process Diagnostics at High Temperatures 
Jean-Pierre Monchalin and Cheng-Juei Jen 
National Research Council Canada 
Canada 
 
Estimation and Imaging of Blood Flow Velocity 
Hans Torp and Lasse Løvstakken 
Norwegian University of Science and Technology 
Norway 
 
SAW Modeling Techniques 
Victor Plessky 
GVR Trade SA 
Switzerland 
 
Piezoelectric Ultrasound Transducer Fundamentals - Materials, Structure, Behavior, and Analysis 
Sandy Cochran1  and Paul Reynolds2  
1 Institute for Medical Science and Technology, University of Dundee
2 Weilinger Associates Inc., Mountain View U.S.A. 
 
Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy - Fundamentals and New Applications from Cells to Airplanes 
Roman Gr. Maev1 , Naohiro Hozumi2 , Kazuto Kobayashi3 , Yoshifumi Sajio4  
1 Centre for Imaging Research and Advanced Materials Characterization, 
University  of Windsor ;  Ontario, Canada 
2 Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,  Aichi Institute of Technology;  Aichi, Japan  
3 Honda Electronics Co. Ltd., Aichi, Japan
4 Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
 
Ultrasound Imaging Systems: from Principles to Implementation 
Kai E. Thomenius 
General Electric Global Research 
Nishayuna , NY, USA 
 
Passive UHF RFID Tags, Systems, and Applications 
Leonhard Reindl, Jochen Eßel, Robert Weigel 
University  of Freiburg and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 
Germany 
 
Ultrasonic Signal Processing for Detection, Estimation, and Imaging 
Jafar Saniie, Ramazan Demirli, Erfal Oruklu 
Illinois Institute of Technology 
Chicago , IL 
 
Time Reversal Acoustics 
Mathias Fink 
Ecole Superiore de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI) 
Paris, France 
 
Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Theory and Experiment 
Nico de Jong and Michel Versluis 
Erasmus MC and University of Twente 
Rotterdam  and Enschede, Netherlands  
 
Zooming into the Near Field 
Alireza Baghai-Wadji 
RMIT  University 
Melbourne , Australia 
 
CMUTs: Theory, Technology, and Applications 
B.T. Khuri-Yakub, O. Oralkan, and M. Kupnik 
E.L. Ginzton Lab., Stanford University 
Stanford , USA 
 
Guided SH-SAW Devices for Liquid-Phase Biochemical Sensors 
Fabien J. Josse 
Dept. of Electrical and Comp. Eng., Marquette University 
Milwaukee , WI, USA 
 
Elasticity Imaging: Dynamic Approaches 
Kathy Nightingale and Mark Palmeri 
Duke  University 
USA 
 
 
TIMETABLE  
    Sunday, September 20 2009 (room) 
        
            8:00am - 12.00am 1:00pm - 5.00pm 6.00pm - 10.00pm  
        
            1A (Hama) 
            1B (Hama) 
            1C (Merida) 
         
        
            2A (Efeso) 
            2B (Spalato) 
            2C (Spalato) 
         
        
            3A (Merida) 
            3B (Merida) 
            3C (Efeso) 
         
        
            4A (Pola) 
            4B (Pola) 
            4C (Pola) 
         
        
            5A (Cesarea) 
            5B (Efeso) 
            5C (Hama) 
         
        
            6A (Spalato) 
            6B (Cesarea) 
            6C (Cesarea) 
         
     
 
All partecipants to the Short Courses are invited to the Buffet Lunch, at the Restaurant "Le Quattro Stagioni", on Sunday Sep. 20, from 12.00am to 1.00pm.