Detailed program

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Monday Sept. 19th

08:30

Registration

09:00

Opening

Session A: Monday morning
Chairman: Allison

09:15

Alexander Shluger (invited)

Understanding the adsorption and self-assembly of functional organic molecules on insulating substrates

09:55

Karina Morgenstern

Correlated diffusion investigated by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy

10:20

Anton Tamtögl

Diffusion on a topological insulator surface: H2O on Bi2Te3(111)

10:45

Coffee break

Session B: Monday morning
Chairman: Morgenstern

11:15

Astrid de Wijn (invited)

Nanoscopic friction under electrochemical control

11:55

Nicola Manini

Frictional features in graphene nanoribbons deposited on gold

12:20

Maria Clelia Righi

Ab initio investigation of tribochemistry mechanisms in solid and boundary lubrication

12:45

Lunch

Session C: Monday afternoon
Chairman: Fratesi

14:30

Latha Venkataraman (invited)

Physics and Chemistry of Single-Molecule Circuits

15:10

Egbert Zojer

Collective electrostatics determining photoexcitations and charge transport in self-assembled monolayers

15:35

Abhilash Ravikumar

Femtomagnetism in graphene induced by core level excitation of organic adsorbates and the role of electron transfer

16:00

Coffee break

16:30

Poster session (1)

19:00

Happy hour

Tuesday Sept. 20th

Session D: Tuesday morning
Chairman: Brivio

09:15

Stephan Rauschenbach (invited)

Electrospray Ion Beam Deposition of Proteins, Peptides, and Sugars: Macromolecular Structure Revealed by STM

09:55

Theodore L. Einstein

Transient Mobility Revisited: Impact on Signatures of Island Growth on Surfaces

10:20

Luca Vattuone

Observation of the acoustic surface plasmon by inelastic neon scattering

10:45

Coffee break

Session E: Tuesday morning
Chairman: Einstein

11:15

Ralf Tonner (invited)

Surface chemistry for organic-inorganic interfaces – a quantum chemical perspective

11:55

Emilio Scalise

Probing the interface between semiconducting nanocrystals and molecular metal chalcogenide surface ligands: insights from first principles

12:20

Ivor Lončarić

Dynamics of CO interaction with Ru(0001): microscopical elucidation of the results of molecular beam experiments

12:45

Lunch

Session F: Tuesday afternoon
Chairman: Zojer

14:30

Alessandro Coati (invited)

Organic molecules/Metallic surfaces structures studied by x-ray scattering

15:10

Luca Floreano

Porphyrin Self-Metalation on Rutile TIO2(110)

15:35

Elena Molteni

Uracil-like nucleobases on Si(001): effect of molecule adsorption, geometry and chemical substitutions on the electronic and optical properties of the silicon surface

16:00

Coffee break

16:30

Poster session (2)

19:30

Social dinner

Wednesday Sept. 21th

Session G: Wednesday morning
Chairman: Alexandrowicz

09:15

George Malliaras (invited)

Interfacing with the Brain using Organic Electronics

09:55

Virginia Carnevali

Graphene Moire’ structures on Ni(001): atomic-scale investigation

10:20

Alberto Calloni

Structure and electronic properties of Zn-tetra-phenyl-porphyrins single- and multi-layers films grown on Fe(001)-p(1×1)O

10:45

Coffee break

Session H: Wednesday morning
Chairman: Rahman

11:15

Eva Rauls (invited)

The Interesting Properties of Functionalized Macromolecules on Metal Surfaces

11:55

Gil Alexandrowicz

Molecular Beam Spin Echo – Probing Molecule-Surface Interaction with a Molecular Interferometer.

12:20

Duy Le

Metal-dipyridyltetrazine chains with single metal coordination site: insights from first principles calculations

12:45

Closing remarks

Visit to Milan & Departures

Posters

Monday

Nadav Avidor

The diffusion of COT on Cu(111) observed in the angstrom-picosecond window

Monday

Anu Baby

Electronic properties of K doped PTCDA monolayer on Ag(111)

Monday

Marco Bernasconi

Atomistic simulation of the formation at NH3 at the pyrite surface under hydrothermal conditions

Monday

Marta Bon

V(V) at carbon-based electrodes: a computational study

Monday

Zlatko Brkljača

Biomineralization and Biomineralization-Inspired Drug Design: Calcite – Peptide Interactions

Monday

Giovanni Carraro

CO interaction with Graphene /Ni(111): chemisorption at regular sites and intercalation at vacancies

Monday

Marcos del Cueto

The role of rotational excitation in H2 diffraction from LiF(001) at grazing incidence conditions

Monday

Shashank S. Harivyasi

The effects of fluorination and side-chain addition on core-level spectra of anthracene

Monday

Duy Le

The impact of functional group on the electronic structure of surface coordination center

Monday

Cristina Lenardi

A photoelectron study of BSCF and LSCF perovskites after long term aging at high temperatures and permeation tests

Monday

He Lin

Modeling the Electronic Properties and Absorption Spectrum of Dye-Sensitized TiO2

Tuesday

Zoran Milicevic

Effect of electric fields on transport properties of small molecules in aqueous environments

Tuesday

Fatema Yahya Mohamed

Nanoclusters on graphene/Ir(111): insights from ab-initio calculations and experiments

Tuesday

Francesco Nattino

Quantitative modeling of a polyatomic molecule-metal surface reaction

Tuesday

Elham Nour Ghassemi

Dynamics study on dissociative chemisorption of H 2 on Pt(111)

Tuesday

Dino Novko

Exploring the electron-induced vibrational linewidths of adsorbates on metal surfaces

Tuesday

Marta Pasquini

Dissipative quantum dynamics of Eley-Rideal H2 recombination on graphite

Tuesday

Josua Pecher

Bifunctional cyclooctyne molecules on Si(001): Investigating their suitability as interface building blocks using DFT

Tuesday

Andrea Picone

Influence of ordered adsorbates on atomic and molecular diffusion on solid surfaces: the case of oxygen passivated Fe(001)

Tuesday

Fatemeh Safdari

Density Functional Theory Study of Gas Adsorption on metal-Graphene Surface

Tuesday

Florian Schumann

Vibrational Properties of ultrathin Perovskite Films

Tuesday

David Ward

A neutral helium atom microscope for high resolution microscopy of delicate surfaces.