Swedish-Israeli Symposium

"Dynamics at Interfaces"

Göteborg, 1.6.-4.6.1999

 

Programme: Total of 33 talks, each 25 mins + 5 mins discussion. Each session also has time allocated for a discussion period led by the Chairman.

 

1.6

17:30 Dinner

19:00 Introduction: Eleanor Campbell (Göteborg)

Jan-Eric Sundgren, Rector of Chalmers

Chair: Raphael Levine (Jerusalem)

19:20 Bengt Kasemo (Göteborg), "Bond breaking and bond forming events in molecule-surface collisions"

19:50 Wilson Ho (Cornell) "Controlling chemistry at the spatial limit"

20:20 Joshua Jortner (Tel Aviv) "Probing elementary excitations in (He)n clusters

20:50 discussion

 

2.6

Chair: Sture Nordholm (Göteborg)

8:30 Raphael Levine (HUJ) "Recent Progress in Cluster Impact Chemistry"

9:00 Uzi Even (Tel Aviv) confirmed (need title)

9:30 Jan Pettersson (Göteborg) "Reaction dynamics on ice surfaces"

10:00 Discussion

10:30 coffee

Chair: Joshua Jortner (Tel Aviv)

11:00 Sture Nordholm (Göteborg) "Statistical theory of collisional energy transfer"

11:30 Eli Kolodney (Technion) "Resonant charge exchange in fullerene-surface collisions"

12:00 Gert Billing (Copenhagen) "Dynamics of Molecule Surface Interaction"

12:30 Discussion

 

13:00 Lunch

 

Chair: Villy Sundström (Lund)

14:00 Göran Wahnström (Göteborg) "Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of atomic motion at surfaces"

14:30 Micha Asscher (HUJ) "Collision dynamics on metal surfaces"

15:00 Yehuda Zeiri (NRCN) "Photo-induced and collision induced desorption of O2 from metal surfaces"

15:30 Discussion

16:00 coffee

Chair: Abraham Nitzan (Tel Aviv)

16:30 Stig Andersson (Göteborg) "Quantum scattering of heavy particles from cold surfaces"

17:00 Shiwu Gao (Göteborg) "Dissipative quantum Dynamics at Surfaces"

17:30 Dinko Chakarov (Göteborg) "Photoinduced processes at graphite/ice interface"

 

18:00 Discussion

19:30 Conference Dinner

 

3.6.

Chair: Efrat Lifshitz (Technion)

8:30 Ulrich Höfer (MPQ, Garching) "Ultrafast coherent phenomena at surfaces"

9:00 Nils Mårtensson (Uppsala) "Element and site-specific probing of dynamic processes using resonant spectroscopies"

9:30 Moshe Deutsch (Bar Ilan) "The structure of liquid surfaces – synchrotron non x-ray

10:00 Discussion

10:30 coffee

Chair: Igor Zoric (Göteborg)

11:00 Mats Jonson (Göteborg) "Coulomb blockade in self-assembled nanostructures"

11:30 Uri Banin (HUJ) "Direct identification of atomic-like states in InAs nanocrystal quantum-dots"

12:00 Efrat Lifshitz (Technion) "Magneto-optical properties of surfaces/interfaces in semiconductor quantum dots / quantum wells"

12:30 Discussion

13:00 Lunch

 

Chair: Bengt Kasemo (Göteborg)

14:00 Villy Sundström (Lund) confirmed (need title)

14:30 Bo Lidberg (Linköping) "Interfacial water and ice at model organic surfaces"

15:00 Peter Apell/Javier Aizpurua (Göteborg) "Dynamics of molecules in STM junctions"

15:30 Discussion

16:00 coffee

Chair: Börje Johansson (Uppsala)

16:30 Arne Rosén (Göteborg) "Experimental and theoretical studies of transition metal clusters and catalytic reactions"

17:00 Ori Cheshnovsky (Tel Aviv) confirmed (need title)

17:30 Per Uvdal (Lund) "The vibrational spectra of adsorbates: experiments and ab initio calculations"

18:00 Discussion

18:30 Dinner

20:00 Posters with refreshments

 

4.6.

Chair: Jacob Sagiv (Weizman Institute)

8:30 Ron Na’aman (WI) "Electron transmission through organised organic films"

9:00 Abraham Nitzan (Tel Aviv) "Electron transmission through molecular layers"

9:30 Ingemar Lundström (Linköping) "Molecular interactions in narrow channels"

10:00 Discussions

10:30 Coffee

Chair: Bengt Lundqvist (Göteborg)

11:00 S.E. Lindquist (Uppsala) need title

11:30 Mats Persson (Göteborg) "Eley-Rideal dynamics of hydrogen on surfaces"

12:00 Jacob Sagiv (WI) "Supramolecular architecture at interfaces: approaches to nanometric and sub-nanometric 3-D control via confined self-assembly"

12:30 Discussion

13:00 Lunch