Opening Ceremony

Guest of Honour – Prof Paul Teng

International Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics and Applications, Singapore July 2 – 3, 2009

 Guest-of-Honour: Prof Paul Teng, Dean GPR, NIE
Previous Appointments
Deputy Director-General (Research), WorldFish Centre, Penang, Malaysia (2002 to 2004)
Vice-President Asia-Pacific, Public Affairs, and Director, Science and Technology, Monsanto
Company, St Louis, USA (1999 to 2002)
Programme Leader, Cross-Ecosystems Research and Plant Pathologist (1987-89, 1991-99)
Chair, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii, USA (1989-90)
Introduction
Under his leadership, NSSE has undergone a major integration exercise from two previous
groups, increased student enrolment, expanded staff, and significantly increased its
research grantsmanship and teaching contributions to NIE.
Research Interests
Prof Teng has extensively researched the role of plant diseases in causing epidemics and
crop losses in several continents.
He has written over 250 journal papers, eight books and numerous conference papers.
More recently, he has devoted his time to researching science communication and science
entrepreneurship, under the umbrella of "Innovation and Enterprise" and to meet the needs
of new economies.
Professional Contributions
Prof Teng has served on many national and international committees, and is currently Vice-
Chair, Board of Directors, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech
Applications, Member, Editorial Board, Chinese Journal of Agricultural Biotechnology, and
non-Executive Chair, Asia Biobusiness Pte Ltd.
Awards
Prof Teng has won awards such as the Eriksson Prize in Plant Pathology in 1987, given by
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences every five years. He is a Fellow of the Third World
Academy of Sciences and the American Phytopathological Society, and was co-recipient of
the 2001 CGIAR Excellence in Science Award for Outstanding Scientific Article.

International Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics and Applications, Singapore July 2 – 3, 2009

 Keynote Speaker: Prof Lee Sing, IPFS/NIE-NTU/INTI

Prof Lee Sing received the B Sc (1964) and M Sc (1966) from the University of
Malaya (UM) and the PhD (1970) from the Australian National University ,
Canberra. He was Professor of Applied Physics and headed research groups in
Plasma and Pulse Technology and the Physics Department at UM and was
Head of Division of Physics and Head Academic Group of Natural Sciences at
Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education (NIE/NTU),
Singapore. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1975-76) at
Kernforschunglange, Juelich, West Germany, Commonwealth Academic Staff
Fellow (1981-82) at Imperial College, London and Visiting Professor and
United Nations University Special Fellow (1986-87) at Flinders University of
South Australia. He was Founder President of the Asian African Association for
Plasma Training (AAAPT), the Associate Director of the AAAPT Research and
Training Centre of the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, Far
Eastern Representative of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics and
ardent advocate and implementor of south-south technology creation and
transfer, especially in plasma fusion, laser and pulse technology. A Chartered
Physicist and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), Life and Hon Fellow of
the Institute of Physics Malaysia and Life Fellow of the Singapore Institute of
Physics and the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas, he is now the Founder Principal
of the (web-based) Institute for the Plasma Focus Studies, Melbourne and
Adjunct Professor (honorary)of NTU/NIE Singapore and INTI University
College, Nilai, Malaysia.

International Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics and Applications, Singapore July 2 – 3, 2009

 Programme
Registration and Breakfast (Outside LT-1 of National Institute of Education at Plaza
7:45 Level)
Session 1 Chair: Dr Rajdeep Singh Rawat (LT-12 which is just next to LT-1)
8:30 Welcoming Address
Opening Address by “Guest of Honour” Prof. Paul Teng Piang-Siong (Dean, Graduated
8:33 Program & Research Office, NIE/NTU )
Keynote - Prof Sing Lee (Diagnostics and Insights from Current waveform and
8:40 Modelling of Plasma Focus)
9:25 Coffee Break
Session 2 Chair: Prof Sing Lee
9:45 IT-1- Reza Amrollahi (Amirkabir Plasma Focus Device)
IT-2- E.O. Baronova (X-ray Spectroscopy of Plamsma Focus: Equiment, Modeling of
10:10 Results)
10:35 IT-3- S.R. Mohanty (EUV Diagnostics of Discharge produced Plasma Sources)
11:00 CT-1- R.Verma (Electrical Diagnostics for Pulsed Power)
Session 3 Chair: Prof Yang Si-Ze
IT-4- S. Xu (Diagnostics and Radical Control in Chemically Active Plasma-aided
11:20 processing of Photovoltaic and Nanomaterials)
11:45 IT-5- M. Ghoranneviss (Recent Results of Magnetic Diagnostics on IR-T1 Tokamak)
IT-6- A. Abdou (Hard X-ray Emission from Super thermal Electrons in the
12:10 HSXstellarator)
12:35 Lunch

International Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics and Applications, Singapore July 2 – 3, 2009

 Programme
Session 4 Chair: Prof. Elena Olegovna Baranova
IT-7- K. Ostrikov (Plasma Nanotechnology: from Microelectronics and Discovery of
13:30 Carbon Nanotubes to Self-Organized Nanodevices and Safe Nanotech of the Future)
13:55 IT-8- M.P. Srivastava (Nanoparticles and Nanotubes Fabrication through Plasma)
IT-9- T.L. Tan (Lithographic Studies of Chemically Amplified Resist using X-ray from
14:20 DPF)
14:40 CT-2- D. Boonyawan (DLC Coating on food Packaging Film Using PIII-D Technique)
14:55 CT-3- Z.Y. Pan (Nano-magnetic Materials Synthesis using Plasma Focus Device)
CT-4- Savita Roy (Dense Plasma Focus assisted formation of Carbon Nanoloops on Quartz
15:10 substrate)

15:25-16:30 Coffee Break and Poster Session 5

Session 5 Poster PS1-PS14
Session 6 Chair: Prof. Reza Amrollahi
16:30 IT-10- M. Mozetic (Plasma diagnostics of Neutral atoms: From nano to fusion)
IT-11- M. Shahid. Rafique (Radiation Emission Correlated with the Evolution of Current
16:55 Sheath from a Deuterium PF)
IT-12- M. Nisoa (Characteristics of Atmosphere Plasma Jet Produced by Resonant Invert
17:20 Power Supply)
17:45 CT -5- M.K. Rahman (Laser Induced Plasma and its Applications)
CT -6- R.S. Rawat (Miniature Plasma Focus Devices: Development, Scope and
18:00 Applications)
18:15 CT -7- S. L. Yap (Pulsed Ion Beam Measurement of Plasma Focus)
19:00 Workshop Banquate at MayFlower Restaurant

International Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics and Applications, Singapore July 2 – 3, 2009