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1 MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR A D IG ITAL FUTURE

KNUT AND AL ICE WALLENBERG FOUNDAT ION

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR A DIGITAL FUTURE

A SYMPOSIUM TO CELEBRATE THE KNUT AND ALICE WALLENBERG

FOUNDATION’S 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY

September 13, K4 at Linköping University, Campus Norrköping



The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation primarily grants funding in the natural sciences, technology and medicine, in the form of grants for basic research of the highest international standard. During the Foundation’s 100 years, SEK 24 billion has been awarded in grants for excellent Swedish research and education. Recent annual grants of SEK 1.7 billion make the Foundation one of the largest private funders of scientific research in Europe.

Over their lifetimes, Knut and Alice Wallenberg built up a sizable fortune, and, even before the establishment of the Foundation, they financed various construction and public development projects. They wanted to organize their support through the establishment of the Foundation.The endowment consisted mainly of shares in Stockholms Enskilda Bank and Investor worth SEK 20 million, SEK 593 million in today’s currency value. Even though the Foundation has granted SEK 24 billion, the assets have, after 100 years and successful capital management, grown to SEK 90 billion.

Knut and Alice Wallenberg were determined to promote scientific research and education beneficial to Sweden, things that contributed to Swedish progress in research and education. In the beginning, the Foundation mainly financed buildings to house research and education. Gradually the support shifted to financing of advanced equipment needed for research. In recent years one of the main areas of support has been individual grants for outstanding researchers. The Foundation supports outstanding individuals through its programs: Wallenberg Scholars and Wallenberg Clinical Scholars for senior scientists; and Wallenberg Academy Fellows for younger scientists. Another important area is grants for researcher-initiated projects with high scientific potential and of the highest international standard.

100 YEARS IN SUPPORT OF EXCELLENT SWEDISH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION




The creation of an information exoskeleton and infrastructure with digital technology is an outcome of developments in digital electronics, computer technology and telecommunications, through space and through optical fibres. These require technology implemented in materials and software, topics of research and development for many decades. We highlight areas of materials and systems science relevant for these functions in this symposium. The materials are here represented by the expanding materials portfolio for electronics, optics and electrochemistry based on organic based electronic materials. Keynote talks show how these materials are building electronic skin, at the interface between human senses and the outer world. Scientists at Linköping University illustrate other directions with presentation of these materials introduced into living green plants, and others demonstrate how organic optoelectronics can give new light sources and flexible semi-transparent solar modules printed on polymer foils. Demonstrations of these technologies are given in the Printed Electronics Arena, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The integration of computing and control, visualization and action, in social robots interacting with the human eye, mind and muscle, is the other strand in the sequence of presentations. Keynote talks on social robots and visualization give the systems science perspective, and a final Keynote discusses synthetic biology and DNA sequences as elements of information technology. Linköping University scientists complement with a robotics perspective stemming from long-standing research in UAVs, and in a final talk show how light interacts with matter in computer graphics and visualization yielding realistic images used in scientific exploration and explanation.

The centenary will be celebrated with the following symposia:

LUND, April 4, BIG QUESTIONS IN ASTROPHYSICS – THE NEXT DECADES

UMEÅ, June 19, INFECTION RESEARCH TO MEET CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES

LINKÖPING, September 13, MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR A DIGITAL FUTURE

STOCKHOLM, September 15, MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCE

UPPSALA, September 21, HUMAN PROGRESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY – BRIGHT AND DARK SIDES OF DEMOCRATIZATION

GOTHENBURG, September 28, METABOLISM – THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE

For more information, visit our website http://kva.se/sv/kalendarium



PROGRAM

09:00–09:05

09:05–09:10

09:10–09:25

09:25–09:30

09:30–09:45

09:45–10:00

INTRODUCTIONOlle Inganäs, Chairman of the Program Committee

WELCOME REMARKSHelen Dannetun, Vice-Chancellor, Linköping University

PRESENTATION OF THE KNUT AND ALICE WALLENBERG FOUNDATIONPeter Wallenberg Jr and Göran Sandberg, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCESGöran K. Hansson, Secretary General, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

THE WALLENBERGS IN ÖSTERGÖTLAND – A SOCIAL HISTORY OF AN ECONOMIC DYNASTYGunnar Wetterberg

THE KNUT AND ALICE WALLENBERG FOUNDATION AT LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY – A BRIEF HISTORYMille Millnert, Ex-chancellor at Linköping University

10:00–10:30 COFFEE

SESSION 1 Chairman: Ingemar Lundström, Linköping University

10:30–11:15 SKIN-INSPIRED ORGANIC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS AND DEVICESZhenan Bao, Stanford University

11:15–11:35 ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS, IN PRINTFeng Gao and Olle Inganäs, Linköping University

Wednesday, September 13, 2017, Turbinen (K4), Kungsgatan 40, Norrköping


A SYMPOSIUM TO CELEBRATE THE KNUT AND ALICE WALLENBERG FOUNDATION’S 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY



11:35–11:55 E-PLANTS AND BIOELECTRONICSEleni Stavrinidou and Magnus Berggren, Linköping University

11:55–13:45 LUNCH Guided demonstrations of Printed Electronics Arena and The Dome

SESSION 2 Chairman: Erik Sandewall, Linköping University

13:45–14:30 SOCIAL ROBOTS – OUR NEXT COMPANIONS?Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, NTU, Singapore and MIRALab, University of Geneva

14:30–14:50 COLLABORATIVE ROBOTICS – HUMANS AND ROBOTS IN THE LOOPPatrick Doherty, Linköping University

14:50–15:35 VISUALIZING THE FUTURE: APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINEChris R. Johnson, University of Utah

15:35–16:05 COFFEE

SESSION 3 Chairman: Lennart Ljung, Linköping University

16:05–16:50 MOLECULAR PROGRAMMING AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY – PROGRAMMING BIOMOLECULAR BEHAVIOUR USING DNARichard M. Murray, California Institute of Technology

16:50–17:10 LIGHT, MATTER AND VOLUMESJonas Unger and Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University

17:10 END OF SYMPOSIUM



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ZHENAN BAO is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford in 2004, she was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies from 1995–2004. She pioneered a number of important material design concepts for organic electronics. Her work has enabled flexible electronic circuits and displays. Bao is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She is a Fellow of MRS, ACS, AAAS, and SPIE. Bao is a co-founder for two start-ups, C3 Nano and PyrAmes.

Skin is the body’s largest organ, and is responsible for the transduction of a vast amount of information. This conformable, stretchable and biodegradable material simultaneously collects signals from external stimuli that translate into information such as pressure, pain, and temperature. The development of electronic materials, inspired by the complexity of this organ is a tremendous, unrealized materials challenge. However, the advent of organic-based electronic materials may offer a potential solution to this longstanding problem. In this talk, I will describe the design of organic electronic materials to mimic skin functions. These new materials enabled unprecedented performance or functions in medical devices, energy storage and environmental applications.

SKIN-INSPIRED ORGANIC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS AND DEVICESZhenan Bao, Department of Chemical Engineering, and by courtesy Chemistry, Material Science and Engineering, Stanford University

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DR. FENG GAO received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2011, followed by a Marie Curie postdoc fellowship at Linköping University. He received the ERC Starting Grant in 2016. His group currently focuses on the research into solution-processed energy materials and devices, mainly based on semiconducting polymers and metal halide perovskites.

PROF. OLLE INGANÄS is professor of biomolecular and organic electronics, IFM, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden. He received a MSc in engineering physics from Chalmers University of Technology (1977), a BSc in philosophy and economics from Göteborg University (1978), and a PhD in applied physics at Linköping University in 1984. He was appointed professor in 1999. Inganäs received the Göran Gustafsson prize in physics in 1997, and was appointed Wallenberg Scholar 2010–2020. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, class of physics, in 2006, a member of the Nobel committee for the prize in physics 2012–2016, and chairman in 2016.

Thin films of organic and hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductor materials are these days increasingly used in the conversion of electricity to light and from light to electricity. The OLED display on your mobile phone is one example. These are the outcome of three decades of research on the electronic properties of conjugated polymers and molecules. At Linköping University we have demonstrated the first white OLEDs and early polymer solar cells. Today, we study a novel class of high performance hybrid inorganic-organic materials known as perovskites. We print semitransparent photovoltaic solar modules on flexible rolls. Large area electronics for electricity/light conversion, both ways, is enabled with these organic and hybrid materials.

Dr. Feng Gao received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2011, followed by a Marie Curie postdoc fellowship at Linköping University. He received the ERC Starting Grant in 2016. His group currently focuses on the research into solution-processed energy materials and devices, mainly based on semiconducting polymers and metal halide perovskites.

ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS,

IN PRINTFeng Gao and Olle Inganäs

Biomolecular and organic electronics, IFM, Linköpings Universitet, Linköping



E-PLANTS AND BIOELECTRONICSEleni Stavrinidou and Magnus Berggren, Linköping University

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Organic Electronics enable electronic functionality and digital intelligence on and in various systems; systems which we traditionally consider impossible to make active or connected. Here we present some recent advances when organic electronic materials have been introduced into biomaterial technologies and even in living systems. Organic electronics have successfully been printed onto paper-based health care labels and even skin patches, thus forming new outposts for healthcare services connected to the internet. Same materials have also been explored in electronic delivery devices, to enable in vivo-regulation of physiology, thus open up for a new health care technology for remote therapy and treatments, especially targeting neurological disorders and diseases. More recently, the organic electronics platform has been applied to plant model systems, such as Arabidopsis thaliana and Rosa floribunda, aiming at introducing an in-vivo-manufactured sensor and actuator technology for future regulation of plant growth and energy technology. Thus, organic electronics might blaze the trail for a future Flower Power technology or Power Plants, a new and truly green technology for the future.

ELENI STAVRINIDOU received her BSc in Physics (2008) and MSc in Nanotechnology (2010) from AUTh (Greece). In 2013 she received her PhD from EMSE-SE (France) for her work on understanding and engineering ion transport in conducting polymers. In 2014 she joined the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE) of Linköping University as a Postdoctoral Fellow where she developed organic electronic devices integrated within living plants. Since 2016 she is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow and a senior researcher, leading the e-Plants subgroup of LOE.

MAGNUS BERGGREN received his MSc in Physics in 1991 and graduated as PhD in Applied Physics in 1996, both degrees from Linköping University. He then joined Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill for a one-year post doc period focusing on the development of organic lasers. From 1997 to 1999 he served Thin Film as its founding managing director and initiated the development of printed electronic memories based on ferroelectric polymers. After this, he returned to Linköping University and to a part time manager position at Acreo Swedish ICT. In 1999, he initiated the research and development of paper electronics, in part supported by several paper- and packaging companies. Since 2002, he is the professor in Organic Electronics at Linköping University and the director of the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, today including 65 people. Magnus Berggren is one of the pioneers of the Printed Electronics, Organic Bioelectronics and Electronic Plants research areas. In 2012 Magnus Berggren was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in 2014 he received the Marcus Wallenberg Price and in 2016 he was awarded the IVA Gold Medal.



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Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann has pioneered research on Virtual Humans since 30 years. She initiated research on social robotics at MIRALab, with EVA, a humanoid head, capable of talking and having emotional interaction. Eva was recently playing on a theatre stage in Zurich. In NTU, Singapore, Professor Thalmann is working on Nadine social robot as a social companion.

This research includes social global awareness, object and actions recognition, gestures modelling including hands, and believable speech dialog interaction. The impact and importance of this research on social robotics will be emphasized, particularly for applications for elderly or people with special needs.

PROF. NADIA MAGNENAT THALMANN is the Director of IMI at NTU, Singapore, and Research Director of the interdisciplinary computer graphics Lab MIRALab, at the University of Geneva. In NTU, she revolutionized social robotics by unveiling the first social robot Nadine that can have mood and emotions and remember people and actions. She is a life member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.

SOCIAL ROBOTS – OUR NEXT COMPANIONS?

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Director IMI, NTU, Research Director of MIRALab, Geneva, Switzerland

SESSION 2



Humans are very good at cooperation and collaboration. Working in teams, where each participant contributes their competences and skills to solve complex problems, is a natural part of our organizational and cultural tool set. More recently, due to technological advances in the areas of IT and AI, a new type of participant, robots, are on the verge of feasibly collaborating in teams, both among themselves and with humans, in solving problems together in diverse application areas. One area in particular, emergency rescue, is of great societal interest. In this talk, I will describe some of our recent research with human-robot collaboration and interaction in teams within this context.

PATRICK DOHERTY is a Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (IDA), Linköping University, Sweden. He leads the Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems Division at IDA. He is an ECCAI/EurAI fellow and is also Editor- in-Chief of the Artificial Intelligence Journal. He has over 25 years of experience in diverse research areas in Artificial Intelligence.

COLLABORATIVE ROBOTICS – HUMANS AND ROBOTS IN THE LOOPPatrick Doherty, Linköping University



We live in an era in which the creation of new data is growing exponentially such that every two days we create as much new data as we did from the beginning of mankind until the year 2003. One of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century is to effectively understand and make use of the vast amount of information being produced. Visual data analysis will be among our most important tools to understand such large and often complex data. In this talk, I will present state-of- the-art visualization techniques, including ways to visually characterize associated error and uncertainty, applied to Big Data problems in science, engineering, and medicine.

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VISUALIZING THE FUTURE: APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCE,

ENGINEERING AND MEDICINEChris R. Johnson, University of Utah

CHRIS R. JOHNSON is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and founding director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah. He also holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Physics and Bioengineering. His research interests are in the areas of scientific computing and scientific visualization. In 1992, Dr. Johnson founded the SCI research group, now the SCI Institute, which has grown to to employ over 200 faculty, staff and students. Professor Johnson serves on a number of international journal editorial and advisory boards to national and international research centers. He is a Fellow of AIMBE (2004), AAAS (2005), SIAM (2009), and IEEE (2014). He received a Young Investigator’s (FIRST) Award from the NIH in 1992, the NSF National Young Investigator (NYI) Award in 1994, the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) award from President Clinton in 1995, a DOE Computational Science Award (1996), the Presidential Teaching Scholar Award (1997), the Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology from Utah Governor Michael Levitt, the Utah Cyber Pioneer Award, the IEEE Visualization Career Award, IEEE IPDPS Charles Babbage Award and the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award, and the University of Utah’s most prestigious faculty award, the Rosenblatt Prize.



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MOLECULAR PROGRAMMING AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY – PROGRAMMING BIOMOLECULAR BEHAVIOUR USING DNARichard M. Murray, California Institute of Technology

RICHARD M. MURRAY received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1985 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 1988 and 1991. He is currently the Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering at Caltech. Murray’s research is in the application of feedback and control to networked systems, with applications in biology and autonomy.

Biotechnology is increasing the ability to read and write DNA at a rate that exceeds Moore’s Law. A new discipline of biological engineering, ”synthetic biology”, is beginning to design biological components, circuits, and systems by engineering genetic circuits. We are plausibly within 10–15 years of being able to produce genetically-programmed synthetic cells and multi-cellular machines that can carry out useful engineering operations. Applications range from synthesis of bio-compatible materials, to environmental monitoring and remediation, to self-assembly of complex multi-cellular. In this talk I will describe the technological trends and applications that are driving this field.

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JONAS UNGER is a senior lecturer at the department of Science and Technology at LiU, where he is leading the group for Computer Graphics and Image Processing. He received his PhD from LiU in 2009, and has worked as a visiting researcher at University of Southern California. In addition to his academic work, Unger has also co-founded startup companies including IrysTech in Canada and 7D Labs in USA.

ANDERS YNNERMAN holds the chair in scientific visualization at Linköping University and since 2010 he is the director of the Norrköping Visualization Center C. Ynnerman is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 2007 Ynnerman was awarded the Akzo Nobel Science award. In 2010 he received the Swedish Knowledge Award for dissemination of scientific knowledge to the public, and in 2011 he received the IVA gold medal.

This presentation addresses fundamental aspects of light and its interaction with matter in computer graphics and visualization. We will show how real-world light and material properties can be captured, modelled and used in image synthesis to generate photo-realistic images of synthetic worlds and how these can be used in novel applications such as the generation of training data sets for machine learning algorithms in autonomous systems. The presentation will then continue to show how simulation of how light interacts with volumes of data to create 3D volumetric images, and how these can be produced interactively using GPUs. The presentation concludes with a live demonstration of volumetric rendering of data from a range of disciplines.

LIGHT, MATTER AND VOLUMESJonas Unger and Anders Ynnerman,

Linköping University



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The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation was established in 1917. The Foundation’s aim is to benefit Sweden by supporting Swedish basic research and education, mainly in medicine, technology and the natural sciences. This is achieved through grants to excellent researchers and to projects.

During the Foundation’s 100 years SEK 24 billion has been awarded in grants for excellent research and education, of which SEK 1.7 billion annually in recent years, making the Foundation one of the largest private funders of scientific research in Europe.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is an independent, non-governmental organisation with a charter that, in its first article, defines its function as promoting the sciences and strengthening their influence in society. The Academy promotes science of the highest quality by fostering development and innovation in Swedish research. It enhances the status of science in society by drawing attention to key social issues, examining them in scientific terms and communicating the results, and joins in cooperation on global issues, with the aim of being an international scientific proponent of sustainable development.

KNUT AND ALICE WALLENBERG FOUNDATION

THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES




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