Symposium on Digital Fabrication
and

Norwegian Fab Lab Opening

August 12-13, 2005








 


Symposium on Digital Fabrication
Friday, August 12
Høgskolen i Tromsø

10:00 Welcome
Hans Petter Kvaal (Høgskolen i Tromsø)
Haakon Karlsen (Solvik Gård)

10:15 Foundations
Digital Fabrication: Neil Gershenfeld (MIT)
Printing Functional Systems: Hod Lipson (Cornell)
Nanofabrication: Hau Wang (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:00 Implementations
Machines: Jun Ito, Masumi Hoshino (Roland)
Microcontrollers: Ingar Fredriksen (Atmel)

11:30 Break

12:00 Applications
Energy: Amy Sun (MIT)
Electromagnetics: George Sergiadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Instrumentation: Debu Goswami (IIT Kanpur)
Computation: Manu Prakash (MIT)
Communication: Benn Molund, (Høgskolen i Tromsø)
Learning: Amon Millner (MIT)

1:00 Lunch

2:00 Fab Lab Reports
Fab Labs: Sherry Lassiter
Norway: Jørgen Karlsen, Yngve Birkelund, Dag Hanssen
Costa Rica: Milton Villegas-Lemus, Yuen Law Wan
India: Yogesh Ramesh Kulkarni, Balu Badu Jadhav
Ghana: John Boafo, Emmanuel Azasoo
South Africa: Sushil Borde, Riaan Coetzee
Boston: Mel King, Ed Baafi

3:00 Partners and Prospects
Brazil: Etienne Delacroix
Japan: Turlif, Alexander Pasko
Germany: Hermann Klinger
Turkey: Tunc Yorulmaz
micro-VC: Michael Angst, David Macfarlane

4:30 Wrap-up Reception


Fab Lab Opening
Saturday, August 13

9:30 Bus from Tromsø
11:00 Project and Process Demonstrations
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Project and Process Discussion
3:00 Opening Ceremony
4:00 Tour
6:00 Banquet
9:00 Bus to Tromsø


User Group Meeting
August 10-17