Confirmed Invited speakers


Vanessa Jane Bukas
Technische Universität München, Theoretische Chemie
web: https://www.th4.ch.tum.de/index.php?id=1156
Talk title: “Hot” adatoms hopping: Phononic dissipation & equilibration dynamics from first-principles; download abstract

Prof. Dr. Cristiana Di Valentin
Materials Science Department, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
web: http://www.mater.unimib.it/en/sections/the-department/people/faculty/cristiana-di-valentin
Talk title: Oxygen at Graphene/Cu(111) and Graphene/TiO2(101) Interfaces: a Van der Waals DFT Study; download abstract

Prof. Dr. Franz Giessibl
Department of Physics, Universität Regensburg, Germany
web: http://www.uni-regensburg.de/physik/giessibl/
Talk title: Hot spots in atomic force microscopy; download abstract

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Günther
Technische Universität München, Zentralinstitut für Katalyseforschung, Chemie Department, München, Germany
web: http://www.professoren.tum.de/en/guenther-sebastian/
Talk title: Moiré patterns formed by hexagonal coincidence lattices: applications for metal supported graphene and related materials; download abstract

Dr. Johan Gustafson
Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund University, Sweden
web: http://ww2.sljus.lu.se/staff/johan/
Talk title: ''In situ surface structure determination during catalytic reactions using high-energy surface X-ray diffraction''; download abstract

Dr. Pavel Jelinek
Nanosurf Lab, Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
web: http://nanosurf.fzu.cz
Talk title: What can we learn from high-resolution AFM/STM images: mapping molecular electrostatic potential; download abstract;

Dr. Jose A. Martín Gago
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
web: http://www.icmm.csic.es/esisna
Talk title: Structure of Epitaxial graphene Moiré coincidence network; lattice mismatch versus surface strain; download abstract

Dr. Reinhard Maurer
Department of Chemistry, Yale University
web: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Reinhard_Maurer
Talk title: Finite-Temperature Effects on Structure and Energetics: Organic Adsorbates from a First-Principles Perspective; download abstract

Dr. Tevfik Onur Menteş
Nanospectroscopy Beamline, Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste, Trieste, Italy
web: http://www.elettra.trieste.it/PEOPLE/index.php?n=TevfikMentes.HomePage
Talk title: Structure and phase separation in ultrathin bimetallic alloys; download abstract

Prof. Dr. Maria Peressi
Physic Dept., Sede di Miramare, University of Trieste, Italy
web: http://www-dft.ts.infn.it/~peressi/
Talk title: ''Morphology and surface structure of bimetallic alloys and nanoalloys: insights from numerical simulations''; download abstract

Dr. Nicola Seriani
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
web: http://users.ictp.it/~nseriani/
Talk title: Structure of hematite(0001) and water splitting mechanism from ab-initio simulations; download abstract

Prof. Dr. Meike Stöhr
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Surfaces and Thin Films — Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, NL
web: http://www.rug.nl/staff/m.a.stohr/
Talk title: Comparing graphene growth on Cu(111) vs. oxidized Cu(111); download abstract

Prof. Dr. Michael Tringides
Iowa State University and Division of Materials Science & Engineering, The Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, USA
web: https://www.ameslab.gov/dmse/tringides
Talk title: Metal growth on graphene:morphology, intercalation and magnetization; download abstract