Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Tools, Challenges, and Opportunities in Research
Discussion Leader: Helen Chadwick (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Arthur Utz (Tufts University, USA)
"There's Gold in Them Thar Hills - Tools, Challenges, and Opportunities in Research"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Messy Surfaces
Not all interfaces are perfect crystals and not all processes that take place at surfaces are simple and clear-cut. The provocative title "Messy Surfaces" embraces liquid interfaces and self-assembly as well as the "messy" task of disentangling a multitude of processes influencing dynamics at surfaces.
Discussion Leader: Nusnin Akter (Stony Brook University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Joseph Gord (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"Gas–Liquid Scattering Studies of Atmospheric Reactions at the Surfaces of Sea-Spray Mimics"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Anton Tamtögl (Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology, Austria)
"Atomic-Scale Diffusion and Friction on a Topological Insulator Surface: H2 O on Bi2 Te3 (111)"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Rebecca Thompson (University of Chicago, USA)
"Oxidative Destruction of Nerve Agent Simulants by O(3 P) Atomic Oxygen"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
David Nesbitt (JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
"Quantum State-Resolved Collision Dynamics at the Gas-Liquid Interface"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Difficult Surfaces
Are surfaces difficult? The physical and chemical processes happening at solid-gas interfaces certainly are! Steps, impurities, phonons, vibrations, and a myriad of interacting electrons can crucially influence reaction rates and reaction mechanisms.
Discussion Leaders: Thomas Eldridge (University of Virginia, USA) and Amy Brunsvold (SINTEF Energy Research, Norway)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Alex Schilling (Tufts University, USA)
"Templated Growth of a Chiral Thin Film Oxide"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Jörn Werdecker (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Observation of Vibrational Energy Redistribution in a Gas-Surface Encounter: State-to-State Scattering of CH4 from Ni(111)"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Richard van Lent (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
"Resolving the Simplest of Reactions: Low Energy D2 Dissociation on Pt"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Barratt Park (University of Goettingen, Germany)
"Rotationally-Resolved Scattering of Formaldehyde from the Au(111) Surface"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel
Three established career scientists will be available for an informal forum discussing the potential career paths in academia and industry: Dr. David Nesbitt, JILA Fellow and Adjoint Professor at University of Colorado Boulder; Dr. Arthur Utz, Associate Professor at Tufts University; and Dr. Amy Brunsvold, Research Scientist at SINTEF, Energy Research.
Discussion Leaders: Rachael Farber (Loyola University Chicago, USA) and Katharina Doblhoff-Dier (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
So You Have a PhD... What's Next?
Amy Brunsvold (SINTEF Energy Research, Norway)
David Nesbitt (JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Arthur Utz (Tufts University, USA)
Reinhard Maurer (Yale University, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
