| Workshop day - 1 - 2 - |
| Thursday, 15th December 2005 |
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14.00
 | A. Franciosi - Sincrotrone Trieste Welcome |
14.15
| C. Bocchetta - Sincrotrone Trieste Machine Status |
14.40
| G. Paolucci - Sincrotrone Trieste Beamlines and Projects |
15.05
| Fonda - Fasella Award Jan Ingo Flege - Universität Bremen - Institut für Festkörperphysik “Highly ordered self-assembled colloidal nanoparticle films studied by grazing-incidence small-angle x-ray scattering” |
| Spectroscopy Session |
15.30
| L. Reining - Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau (France) Electronic excitations and the calculation of dielectric functions |
16.10
| R. Gebauer - I.C.T.P., Trieste (Italy) New computational approaches to time-dependent density-functional theory |
16.40
| Coffee break |
17.00
| J.N. Andersen - University of Lund (Sweden) Recent studies of adsorption and surface reactions by core levelspectroscopy and other methods |
17.40
| J. Rehr - University of Washington (U.S.A.) Ab initio calculations of optical constants from UV to X-rays |
18.20
18.50 | P. Decleva - University of Trieste (Italy) Photoemission in finite systems: DFT and TDDFT approaches |
| Workshop day - 1 - 2 - |
| Friday, 16th December 2005 |
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| Oxides Session |
9.00
| A. Selloni - Princeton University (U.S.A.) The Surface Science of TiO2 : insights from first principles simulations |
9.40
| S. Fabris - INFM DEMOCRITOS, Trieste (Italy) Modeling the surface chemistry of ceria using density-functional theory |
10.10
| F. P. Netzer - Karl-Franzens University Graz (Austria) Artificial oxide phases in nano-structured layers |
10.50
| Coffee break |
11.10
| N. Harrison - Imperial College London (UK) Localised states, soft vibrations and the remarkable properties of titania |
11.50
| G. Pacchioni - University Milano Bicocca (Italy) Charge transfers at metal-oxide interfaces |
12.30
| Lunch |
| Catalysis Session |
14.30
| M. Mavrikakis - University of Wisconsin (U.S.A.) Density functional theory studies of Reactions on transition metals and alloys |
15.10
| N. Binggeli - I.C.T.P., Trieste (Italy) Explaining the correlation between surface reactivity and quantum-size effects in ultrathin metal films |
15.40
| S. Guenther - LMU Muenchen (Germany) Examples on the pressure gap in catalysis - when UHV- and "high pressure"-experiments observe a "different world" |
16.20
| Coffee break |
16.40
| S. Jenkins - University of Cambridge (UK) Promoting the catalytic activity of gold |
17.20
17.50 | S. de Gironcoli - SISSA, Trieste (Italy) Engineering the reactivity of metal catalysts: low temperature methanol synthesis |
