Friday, November 17, 2006
the IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University

1. 8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Coffee
2. 9:00 - 9:30 Opening Remarks
3. 9:30 - 10:30 Prof. Aleksandar Marincic, Member of Serbian Academy of Sciences
   Nikola Tesla contribution to radio development
4. 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
5. 10:45 - 11:45 Prof. Emeritus Anthony Arrott, Department of Physics, SFU
   Tesla and Edison according to Henry Ford
6. 11:45 - 13:00 Lunch (provided)
7. 13:00 - 14:00 Prof. Emeritus Konrad Reichert, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   Permanent-magnet machines, trends, problems and simplified simulation by fe-methods
8. 14:00 - 15:00 Prof. Bret Heinrich, Department of Physics, SFU
   Spintronics-new way of electronics
9. 15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break
10. 15:15 - 16:15 Prof. Jose Marti, Department of Electrical Engineering, UBC
    Nikola Tesla, an Engineer
11. 16:15 - 17:15 Prof. Milos D. Ercegovac, Computer Science Department, UCLA
    Omnipresence of Tesla's work and ideas
12. 17:15 - 19:30 Reception