Sunday |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Theory (Electronic Structure) - Predictive Power and Limitations |
| Discussion Leader: Manos Mavrikakis (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Annabella Selloni (Princeton University, USA) "Water Adsorption and Oxidation
on Anatase TiO2" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | John Kitchin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) "For Metal Oxides U Need More than DFT to Get It Right" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Reactions Close to Atmospheric Pressures and Under Electrochemical Conditions |
| Discussion Leader: Mary Jane Shultz (Tufts University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Hendrik Bluhm (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) "Investigation of Solid/Vapor, Solid/Liquid and Liquid/Vapor Interfaces Using Photoelectron Spectroscopy" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Edvin Lundgren (Lund University, Sweden) "Novel In Situ Techniques for Studies of Model Catalysts" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Suljo Linic (University of Michigan, USA) "Photo- and Electro-Chemical Reactions on Metal Surfaces" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Theory
(KMC and MD) - Predictive Power and Limitations |
| Discussion Leader: Axel Gross (Ulm University, Germany) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Karsten Reuter (Technical University Munich, Germany) "First-Principles Kinetic Monte
Carlo for Surface Catalysis: From Exploratory Tool to Commodity" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Claudia Draxl (Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, Germany) "Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials: Challenges for Ab Initio Methodology" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Present Challenges in Catalysis |
| Discussion Leader: Hans-Joachim Freund (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Simon Bare (UOP, A Honeywell Company, USA) "In Situ Characterization: Status, Challenges and
Opportunities" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Peter Stair (Northwestern University, USA) "Using
Surface Chemistry to Make High-Performance Catalysts" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Robert Schloegl (Fritz Haber Institute, Germany) "Dynamics of Heterogeneous Catalysts" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Environmental Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce Kay (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Vicki Grassian (University of Iowa, USA) "Reactions of Atmospheric Gases with Environmental
Interfaces: From Model to Complex Systems" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Kim Prather (University of California, San Diego, USA) "Replicating the Complexity of Real World Aerosol Particle Surfaces in the Laboratory" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Materials and Synthesis Methods |
| Discussion Leader: Francisco Zaera (University of California, Riverside, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Susannah Scott (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) "Kinetic Control of Metal Nanoparticle Formation
from Organometallic Precursors" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Jeong Young Park (KAIST, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea) "Hot Electron and Surface
Plasmon-Induced Catalytic Reactions on Metal-Oxide Nanocatalysts" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Brian Hayden (University of Southhampton, United Kingdom) "Trends in Reactivity from
High-Throughput Methods on Model Catalysts: Particle Size and Support Effects" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Organic Surface Layers |
| Discussion Leader: Stacey Bent (Stanford University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Junfa Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, China) "Surface-Assisted Formation of Low-Dimensional Organic Nanostructures" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Maki Kawai (University of Tokyo, Japan) "Electronic, Vibrational and Spin Structure of Single Molecules at Metal Surfaces" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Elementary Reaction Steps |
| Discussion Leaders: Miquel Salmeron (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA) and Judith Yang (University of Pittsburgh, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Christian Papp (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) "Surface Chemistry on Metal Single Crystals and Graphene-Supported Metal Particles" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Ludo Juurlink (Leiden Institute of Chemistry, The Netherlands) "Curved Metal Surfaces in Studies of Elementary Steps and Reaction Mechanisms" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| Late-Breaking Topics in Surface Chemical Reactions |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader: Judith Yang |
11:40 am - 11:45 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Hieu Doan (University of Houston, USA) "The Critical Role of Water in Catalytic CO Oxidation over Au/TiO2 Catalysts" |
11:45 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 11:55 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Joseph Elias (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Mechanistic Studies and Design Descriptors for CO Oxidation Catalysis over Transition-Metal-Substituted CeO2 Nanoparticles" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Signe Grønborg Sørensen (Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Denmark) "Adsorption of Sterically Hindered Sulfur Containing Molecules on a Heterogeneous Model Catalyst" |
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Farnaz Sotoodeh (TU München, Germany) "First-Principles Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of HCl Oxidation on RuO2(110)" |
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Rita Wiesinger (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria) "Chemical Reactions on Metal Surfaces – An Experimental Approach" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chirality
in Surface Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Georg Held (University of Reading, United Kingdom) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Charles Sykes (Tufts University, USA) "Effects of Chirality in Electron Tunneling, Molecular Excitation and Rotation" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Karl-Heinz Ernst (EMPA - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland) "Chiral Recognition and Reconstructions at Surfaces" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |