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5th International Workshop on Oxide Surfaces (IWOX5), January 2007, Lake Tahoe, CA
IWOX-V was held at Granlibakken Conference center in Lake Tahoe, CA, January 7-12. The total attendance was ~90. The breakdown of attendees by country is as follows:
USA 41
Germany 18
Japan 7
UK 5
Italy 5
France 4
Austria 3
Denmark 3
Cech. Repub. 1
Ireland 1
New Zealand 1
India 1
The technical program included oral sessions on the electronic and magnetic properties of oxide surfaces, surface and interface structure, advances in theory, surface defects, thin film oxides on metals and on oxides, thin film metals on oxides, surface photochemistry, surface reactivity, and interactions with water. Two evening poster sessions had similar themes. As in previous years, the program stimulated significant interest and discussion among the attendees.
The invited speakers and their institutions and topics are listed below.
Thomas Risse (Fritz Haber Institute) – Development of ESR to study point defects on oxide surfaces, in combination with STM and STS.
Russel Egdell (Oxford University) – Relationship between surface properties and the electronic structure in metal oxides, particularly epitaxial oxide films.
John Freeland (ANL) -- x-ray scattering and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism of manganite surfaces.
Nick Harrison (Imperial College – London)
Yuji Matsumoto (Tokyo Inst. of Technology) – photocatalysis and structure on oxide surfaces.
Zdenek Dohnalek (PNNL) – reactivity of metal particles on oxide surfaces.
Hiroshi Onishi (Kobe University) – STM investigations of photochemical processes on oxide surfaces with small metal particles.
Remi Lazzari (INSP, Paris) -- Growth of metal clusters on oxide surfaces by GISAXS and GIXRD.
Svetlozar Surnev (University of Graz, Austria) -- metal supported NiO and MnOx nanostructures.
Gaetano Granozzi (University of Padova, Italy) – experimental investigations of TiOx films on Pt (111).
Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee) – TEM and theoretical investigations of polar oxide surfaces and interfaces.
Kevin Rosso (PNNL) -- single crystal mineral (iron oxides) dissolution.
The local expenses (food and lodging, $918 per person) as well as partial airfare reimbursement ($282 per person) for Egdell, Granozzi and Matsumoto were covered by PRF funds. (See budget details below.)
Nine Ph.D. students competed for the Best Student Presentation Prize, a new prize instituted in 2007 for the first time. The prize consists of a certificate and $500. The winner, selected by a multinational panel of judges, was Stefan Torbrügge of Universität Osnabrück, Germany. This money was provided by Elsevier.
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IWOX-VI will be held at January 18-23, 2009 in Schaldming Austria, and will be chaired be Falko Netzer of Graz University, Vienna. IWOX-VII will be held in the winter of 2010 in Japan, and will be chaired by Hiroshi Onishi and Yuji Matsumoto of Kobe University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, respectively. Despite the biannual schedule we have used since the inception of IWOX, it was decided to hold IWOX-VII one year after IWOX-VI in order to eliminate an ongoing schedule conflict between IWOX and the Water on Oxides Gordon Conference, which is held biannually in February, and has coincided with IWOX since the inception of the latter. Some academics have reported that they cannot attend both conferences when they are so close together due to teaching responsibilities. By staggering the meetings in this way, more individuals should be able to attend both.
Budget Details
Foreign Speaker lodging /meals airfare reimburse. total
Russel Egdell $918 $282 $1200
Yuji Matsumoto $918 $282 $1200
Gaetano Granozzi $918 $282 $1200
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Grand total $3600
Total funds received from PRF $3600
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Funds remaining 0
