Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Multilateral Approaches for Uncovering the Kinetics & Dynamics of Gas-Surface Reactivity
Discussion Leader: Nils Hertl (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Alec Wodtke (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany)
"Progress Toward Building the World’s Greatest Microscope: The Joys of Making Theory and Experiment Work Together"
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
Experimental Investigations into Emergent Interfacial Behavior
Discussion Leader: Matt Kalan (Tufts University, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Sarah Willson (University of Chicago, United States)
"Elucidating the Substrate-Mediated Diffusion Pathways Guiding the Growth of Superconducting Nb3Sn Thin Films for Accelerator Infrastructure"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Arnab Choudhury (University of Goettingen, Germany)
"Manipulating Tunneling Gateways in Condensed Phase Isomerization"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Philipp Maier (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
"Helium Atom Scattering as a Means to Study Surface Properties and Diffusion on a Molecular Level"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Elizabeth Happel (Tufts University, United States)
"An Investigation of Oxygen on Ag(111) for the Partial Oxidation of Ethylene to Ethylene Oxide"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Computational Insights into Surface Chemistry and its Reaction Dynamics
Discussion Leader: Liang Zhang (The University of New Mexico, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Carson Mize (University of Tennessee Knoxville, United States)
"Investigating Catalytic Activity Involving Subsurface Adsorption Using a Lattice-Gas Model and Monte Carlo Simulations"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Wojciech Stark (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
"Adaptive machine learning workflows for adiabatic and nonadiabatic dynamics at surfaces"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Kritanjan Polley (University of California. Berkeley, United States)
"Residence Time Distribution for Ozone at Air-Water Interface"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Bushra Ashraf (University of Central Florida, United States)
"Adsorption Characteristics of N-methylaniline and Ethylene on Pt(111)"
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: Professional Life Following Ph.D. & Postdoc: Career Perspectives from Academia and Beyond
Discussion Leaders: Paul Lane (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom) and Madeline Memovich (University of Virginia, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Professional Life Following Ph.D. & Postdoc: Career Perspectives from Academia and Beyond
Rachael Farber (University of Kansas, United States)
Theofanis Kitsopoulos (Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany)
Daniel Tinney (Commonwealth Fusion Systems, United States)
Priscilla Antunez (Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
