Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 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 | Keynote Session: Time-Resolved Dynamics at Surfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Martin Wolf (Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society, Germany) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Claus Ropers (University of Göttingen, Germany) "Development of Ultrafast Low-Energy Electron Diffraction" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Sylvie Rokie (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) "Water, Ions, Interfaces" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Dynamics of Chemical Reactions at Surfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Greg Sitz (University of Texas, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Donghui Zhang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) "Quantum Dynamics Studies of Dissociation of Water on Metal Surfaces" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Rainer Beck (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) "State-to-State Scattering of Methane from Transition Metal Surface" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Hua Guo (University of New Mexico, USA) "Quantum Dynamics of Polyatomic Dissociative Chemisorption: Mode Specificity and Bond Selectivity" |
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 | From Surface Dynamics to Heterogeneous Catalysis |
| Discussion Leader: Scott Anderson (University of Utah, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Ulrich Heiz (Technical University of Munich, Germany) "Stability and Reactivity of Small Clusters at Surfaces" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Swetlana Schauermann (Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany) "Elementary Steps in Surface Reactions: Mechanisms, Kinetics and Thermodynamics" |
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 | Dynamics at Liquid, Polymer, Membrane, and Biological Interfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce Kay (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | William Hase (Texas Tech University, USA) "Dynamics of Peptide-H+ Collisions with Organic Surfaces: Comparisons of Experiment and Simulation" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Gilbert Nathanson (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) "Liquid Microjet Studies of Solvation and Reactions" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Ellen Backus (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany) "Water Underneath Surfactants: A Molecular View at the Dynamics" |
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 | Dynamics of Adsorbate Self-Assembly and Motorics |
| Discussion Leader: Andrew Gellmann (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | E. Charles H. Sykes (Tufts University, USA) "An Atomic Picture of Nuclear Decay in Stable 2-D Radioactive Films" |
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) "Molecular Motors at Surfaces" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Surface Dynamics of Energy Conversion Processes |
| Discussion Leader: John Tully (Yale University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Xueming Yang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) "Surface Photocatalysis of Methanol and Water on TiO2" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Natalia Garcia Rey (University of Illinois, USA) "Challenging a Deeply Buried Electrode by Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy. Towards Understanding the CO2 Electroreduction on Ionic Liquid-Metal Interface" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Jan Rossmeisl (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) "The Electrochemical Interface at the Atomic Scale" |
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 | Single Molecule Forces and Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Klaus Kern (Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Germany) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Harald Brune (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) "Identifying the Rotational Eigenstates of Physisorbed H2 with the STM" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Sharani Roy (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) "Theoretical Studies of Dynamics at Molecular Junctions" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Electron Dynamics at Surfaces and Non-Adiabaticity |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Auerbach (D.J. Auerbach and Associates, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Oliver Buenermann (University of Göttingen, Germany) "Inelastic Hydrogen Atom Scattering from Metals: Importance of Electron-Hole-Pair Excitations" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Maite Alducin Ochoa (Materials Physics Center, Spain) "Competition Between Phonons and Electron-Hole Pair Excitations in Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Reinhard Maurer (Yale University, USA) "Ab-Initio Dynamics of Large Functional Molecules 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 | Computational Dynamics and Surface Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Cristina Diaz (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Axel Gross (Ulm University, Germany) "Molecular Scale Imaging of Structures and Processes at Electrode/Electrolyte Interfaces" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Alexander Tkatchenko (Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society, Germany) "Modeling Energetics and Dynamics of Molecules at Surfaces: Recent Advances and Remaining Challenges" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |