| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 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 | Magnesium Hydride |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Bowman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Petra de Jongh (Utrecht University)
"Nanostructured Materials for Hydrogen Storage: beyond Ball-milling?" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Hannes Jonsson (University of Iceland)
"The Effect of Quantum Mechanical Delocalization of H-atoms on the Stability, Structure and Diffusivity in Hydrides" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | High Capacity Hydrogen Storage Materials I |
| Discussion Leader: Scott W. Jorgensen (GM R&D) |
| 9:00 am - 9:35 am | Job Rijssenbeek (GE Global Research)
"Simultaneous crystal structure and gas release studies on complex metal hydrides" |
| 9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:20 am | Yuko Nakamori (Tohoku University)
"Tailoring of Complex Hydrides for Improving Thermodynamic and Kinetic Properties" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:35 am | David Sholl (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Density Functional Theory as a Tool for Accelerating Development of Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage" |
| 11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Ewa Ronnebro (Sandia National Laboratories)
"On the Challenge to Synthesize New Metal Hydrides and Potential for High-Pressure Reversible Systems" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Group Photo / Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Spectroscopy |
| Discussion Leader: Terry Udovic (National Institute of Standards & Technology) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Stewart F. Parker (ISIS Facility)
"Ab Initio and Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies of Hydrogen Storage Compounds" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Hans Hagemann (Universite de Geneve)
"Experimental and theoretical studies of vibrational properties of BH4- and RuH64- in condensed phase" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Son-Jong Hwang (California Institute of Technology)
"Characterization of complex hydrides by high resolution solid state NMR methods" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:45 am | Defects |
| Discussion Leader: Reiner Kirchheim (Institut fur Materialphysik) |
| 9:00 am - 9:35 am | Chris Van de Walle (University of California at Santa Barbara)
"Effects of Point Defects and Impurities on Kinetics in Hydrogen Storage Materials" |
| 9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:20 am | Rosario Cantelli (Universita' de Roma "La Sapienza")
"Anelastic Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry Studies during Transformation in Complex Hydrides" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:35 am | Ryosuke Kadono (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK)
"Role of Hydrogen Bonding in Sodium Alanate" |
| 11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Short Talks |
| Discussion Leader: Gary Sandrock |
| (to be selected from poster presentations) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Yttrium and Lanthanum Hydride |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Vajda (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Akihiko Machida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
"Structural Properties in Rare-Earth Metal Hydrides under High Pressure" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 am - 8:40 pm | Joachim Schoenes (Technische Universitat Braunschweig)
"YH3: A Strongly Correlated Electron System" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Walter Wolf (Materials Design s.a.r.l.)
"Phase Diagram and Metal-insulator Transition in the Y-H and La-H Systems from a First Principles Viewpoint" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Intermetallic Hydrides |
| Discussion Leader: Etsuo Akiba (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology - AIST) |
| 9:00 am - 9:35 am | Valerie Paul-Boncour (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
"Properties of AB2 Laves Phase Hydrides: Unresolved Problems" |
| 9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:20 am | Yaroslav Filinchuk (Swiss-Norwegian Beamlines at ESRF)
"Intermetallic Hydrides beyond the 'Interstitial' Model" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Hydrogen on Surfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Astrid Pundt (Institut fur Materialphysik) |
| 11:00 am - 11:35 am | Klaus Christmann (Free University of Berlin)
"Interaction of Hydrogen with solid surfaces" |
| 11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Adolf Winkler (Graz University of Technology)
"Permeation/Desorption and Permeation/Reaction of Hydrogen on Modified Pd(III) Surfaces" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Short Talks |
| Discussion Leader: Gary Sandrock |
| (to be selected from poster presentations) |
| 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | High Capacity Hydrogen Storage Materials II |
| Discussion Leader: Ragaiy Zidan (Savannah River National Laboratory - SRNL) |
| 9:00 am - 9:35 am | Thomas S. Autrey (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
"Structure and Dynamics of Ammonia Borane" |
| 9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:20 am | Chen Ping (National University of Singapore)
"Studies on Low-temperature Hydrogen Desorption from Li-Al-N-H and Li-B-N-H systems" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:35 am | Per Erik Vullum (Realfagbygget)
"TEM characterization of doped NaAlH4: Possibilities and limitations" |
| 11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Chris Wolverton (Northwestern University)
"Discovery of Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials: An Atomic-Scale Computational Approach" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New Methods of Characterization |
| Discussion Leader: Ronald Griessen (Vrije Universiteit) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Robin Gremaud (Vrije Universiteit)
"Hydrogenography: an optical combinatorial method to find new light-weight hydrogen storage materials" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Tabbetha Dobbins (Louisiana Tech University)
"New Possibilities for Understanding the Complex Metal Hydrides via Synchrotron X-ray and Microwave Radiation Studies" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Ji-Cheng Zhao (GE Global Research)
"Promising Metal Hydrides and System Concepts for Hydrogen Storage" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
