“VMIC in Asia (Singapore) - A FIRST”
       Dr. Thomas E. Wade, VMIC Chairman
           VMIC Welcoming Remarks

 “Advanced Interconnect - It’s A Material World”
      Dr. Gene Banucci, CEO, ATMI Corp.
         Keynote Address

“Si-Ge Alloys: The Road From Strained Si MOSFET’s To On-Chip Optical Interconnect”     
       Dr. Mayank T. Bulsara, AmberWave Sys. Corp.
          Luncheon (Tuesday)

“Low-k Dielectrics For The 90 nm Node & Beyond”
        Dr. Devendra Kumar, ASM Corp.
           Luncheon (Wednesday)

“CMP Hardware Trends For Future ULSI Devices”
        Dr. Akira Isobo, Tokyo Seimitsu Co.
            Short Course Luncheon

 VMIC SHORT COURSE: ‘Towards Nanoelectronics Interconnection”
          Monday, November 18, 2002

This year’s VMIC includes 100 Technical Papers.