SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Nanothings |
| Discussion Leader: P. O'Brien, University of Manchester (UK) |
| H. Kroto, Sussex (UK) Science, Society & Sustainability |
| R. Tenne, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Inorganic nanotubes and inorganic fullerene-like materials from layered compounds: from concept to applications |
MONDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Materials for energy: Solid State Ionics |
| Discussion Leader: A. Jacobson, Univ. of Houston , Texas (USA) |
| J.M. Tarascon, Université de Picardie Jules Verne - Amiens (F)
Research on Li batteries: Leaving traditions and opening new paths |
| Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Solid State Electrochemistry of Transition Metal Nitrides/Phosphides/Antimonides |
| Biosolids |
| Discussion Leader: B. Heywood, Keele (G.B) |
| S. Mann, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol (UK)
Biomineral-inspired Synthesis and Self-assembly of Nanoparticle Arrays and Nanostructured Materials |
| B. Dunn, UCLA, Los Angeles (USA)
Encapsulation of Biomolecules in Sol-Gel Derived Matrices |
12:45 pm | Lunch / Photo |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Designing Solids |
| Discussion Leader: F.J. Di Salvo, Cornell, New York (USA) |
| M. Kanatzidis, Michigan State University, East Lansing, (USA) "Design" in Solid State Chemistry Based on Phase Homologies |
| Martin Jansen, MPI Sttutgart (D) A concept for synthesis planning in solid state chemistry |
TUESDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Electronic Materials |
| Discussion Leader: M. Greenblatt, Rutgers University, New Jersey (USA) |
| M. Rosseinsky, University of Liverpool (UK)
Reduction by the hydride anion as a route to new transition metal oxides and oxide hydrides |
| M.R.Ibarra, ICMA, Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC (Spain)
Electronic Nano and Mesophases in CMR manganites |
| New materials |
| Discussion Leader: Fernando Marques, University of Aveiro (Portugal) |
| K. Poeppelmeier, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, (USA)
Discovering New Oxides |
| Paul McMillan, Royal Institution of Great Britain
Polyamorphism and Nanoparticles in Silicon and Germanium |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Synthesis |
| Discussion Leader: M.Á. Alario-Franco, Univ. Complutense, Madrid (Spain) |
| J. Karpinsky, ETH , Zürich (CH)
High-pressure crystal growth of superconductors and nitride semiconductors |
| E. Antipov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Transition Metal Perovskites - Inexhaustible Source of New Materials |
WEDNESDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Structure, theory, modeling I |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
| Ram Seshadry, Materials Department, UCSB (USA)
Computational studies of the role of lone pairs in perovskites containing Pb and Bi: ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics and relaxors |
| S. Álvarez, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Symmetry and Shape Measures of Transition Metals in the Solid State |
| Structure, theory, modeling II |
| Discussion Leader: J.P. Attfield, Cambridge (UK) |
| Pat Woodward, Ohio State University (USA)
Structure Prediction and Physical Property Manipulation in Oxides and Oxynitrides |
| M. Whangbo, North Carolina State University (USA)
Analysis of spin exchange interactions in extended magnetic solids |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | TBA |
| TBA |
THURSDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Some other Materials |
| Discussion Leader: Alexander Kaminskii, Institute of Crystallography,
Moscou (Russia) |
| R. Denning, Oxford University (UK)
Optical Methods for Fabricating 3-D Photonic Crystals |
| Jean Pierre Doumerc, ICMCB-CNRS, Bordeaux (FR)
Spin state ordering in cobaltites |
| Sol/Gel & Molecular Materials |
| Discussion Leader: Dante Gatteschi , University of Florence, Italy |
| C. Sánchez, Universite Pierre Et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Designed construction of hybrid organic-inorganic materials: from nano-structured hybrids to hierarchical structures |
| E.Coronado, Insitute for molecular materials, Valencia (Spain)
Multifunctional molecular materials |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Sicut erat in principio: More about nano-materials |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Davies, University of Pennsylvania (USA) |
| Malcom Green University of Oxford (UK)
Synthesis and structure of new materials encapsulated within single and multiple walled carbon nanotubes |
| Alexandra Navrotski, UC Davis (USA)
Energetics of Nanophase Solids |
FRIDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |