Programme

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Thursday 4th June 2009 

 
 
  Arrival  
 
12:00  Registration  
 
   
 

Friday 5th June 2009 

 
 
   
Session 1 Chair: Prof. Oddur Ing?fsson / Prof. Ahmet Oral  

 
08:50  Opening remarks  
 
09:00 - 09:45   Electron-Controlled Adsorbate Motion and Reaction at a Silicon Surface.   Prof. John C. Polanyi, Nobel Laureate
(CA)  
09:45 - 10:25   On the relation between gas phase electron scattering and processes at the STM tip   Prof. Michael Allan
(CH)  
10:25 - 11:10   Coffee break  
 
   
Session 2 Chair: Dr. Roman Curik  

 
11:10 - 11:35   Electron-scattering on biosystems: a step forward a high-throughput approach   Dr. Isabella Baccarelli
(IT)  
11:35 - 12:00   Electron attachment and electron impact ionisation of selected derivatives of silane   Prof. Stefan Matecjik
(SK)  
12:00 - 12:25   Low energy electron interactions with biologically relevant molecules   Dr. Janina Kopyra
(PL)  
12:25 - 14:10   Lunch Break  
 
   
Session 3 Chair: Prof. Armin G?zh?ser  

 
14:10 - 14:50   Lithographic fabrication of clean nanostructures via focused electron-beam induced processing in UHV.   Dr. Hubertus Marbach
(DE)  
14:50 - 15:15   Predicting Molecular Pattern Diversity: Elementary Geometrical Features Encoding Molecular Ordering   Dr. Bianca Hermann
(DE)  
15:15 - 15:40   Charge transfer-driven molecular self-assembly at organic/metal surfaces   Dr. Roberto Otero
(ES)  
15:40 - 16:25   Coffee break  
 
   
Session 4 Chair: Prof. Armin G?zh?ser  

 
16:25 - 16:50   Magic L-serine clusters in cold helium nanodroplets   Mr. Filipe Ferreira da Silva
(AT)  
16:50 - 17:15   Predictive simulations for metastable dissociation of negative ions.   Ms. Helga D?g Flosad?tir
(IS)  
18:15  Welcome reception  
 
   
 

Saturday 6th June 2009 

 
 
   
Session 5 Chair: Dr. Isabella Baccarelli  

 
09:00 - 09:40   Low energy electrons in Nanolithography   Prof. Leon Sanche
(CA/UK)  
09:40 - 10:05   Cold electron collisions: Theory and experiment   Dr. Roman Curik
(CZ)  
10:05 - 10:30   Comparative study of delayed fragmentation resulting from electron attachment to nitro-aromatic compounds   Dr. Andreas Mauracher
(AT)  
10:30 - 11:15   Coffee break  
 
   
Session 6 Chair: Prof. Anne Lafosse  

 
11:15 - 11:55   Electron induced chemistry on surfaces ? Some unanswered questions   Prof. Nigel Mason
(UK)  
11:55 - 12:20   Dissociative Electron Attachment to Amino-Acid: the case of Leucine.   Dr. Hassan Abdoul-Carime
(FR)  
12:20 - 12:45   Measurements of electron interactions with metal vapour atoms   Prof. Bratislav Marinkovic
(YU)  
12:45 - 13:10   Formation of CN- in Electron Attachment to Organic Molecules   Prof. Eugen Illenberger
(DE)  
13:10 - 14:30   Lunch Break  
 
14:30  Conference Excursion  
 
20:00  MC Meeting  
 
   
 

Sunday 7th June2009 

 
 
   
Session 7 Chair: Prof. Karina Morgenstern  

 
09:00 - 09:45   Atomic Scale Inelastic Electron Tunneling Phenomena.   Prof. Wilson Ho
(USA)  
09:45 - 10:10   A surface science whodunnit: the cross section for electron induced dissociation of the precursor Me3PtMeCp   Dr. Willem van Dorp
(NL)  
10:10 - 10:35   Non-local molecular manipulation by STM charge injection into selected surface electronic states   Prof. Richard E. Palmer
(UK)  
10:35 - 11:15   Coffee break  
 
   
Session 8 Chair: Prof. Nigel Mason  

 
11:15 - 11:55   Low-energy electron (0-20 eV) induced degradation of 11-Mercapto-undecanoic acid SAMs   Dr. Anne Lafosse
(FR)  
11:55 - 12:20   Impedance Spectroscopy - A Tool for DNA Irradiation Studies.   Dr. Paulo Gomez
(PT)  
12:20 - 12:45   Graphene modification by atomic hydrogen.   Dr. Richard Balog
(DK)  
12:45 - 14:30   Lunch Break  
 
   
Session 9 Chair: Prof. Richard Palmer  

 
14:30 - 15:10   Switching molecules by electrons: From isomerisation to chirality flip   Prof. Karina Morgenstern
(DE)  
15:10 - 15:35   Probing the proton location in a water bilayer on Pd(111) by inelastic spectroscopy simulations.   Dr. Marie-Laure Bocquet
(FR)  
15:35 - 16:00   Surface dynamics and chemistry of propene on Cu(211) induced by inelastic electron tunneling.   Dr. Manfred Parschau
(CH)  
16:15 - 18:00   Poster Session  
 
18:00 - 19:30   Dinner  
 
19:30  Poster Session  
 
   
 

Monday 8th June2009 

 
 
   
Session 10 Chair: Prof. Armin G?zh?ser  

 
09:00 - 09:40   Adsorption, diffusion and manipulation of molecules on insulating surfaces   Prof. Adam Foster
(FI)  
09:40 - 10:05   The outlook for growing larger nanostructures with STM using chemical amplified feedback and other energy assisted processes.   Prof. Sveinn ?afsson
(IS)  
10:05 - 10:30   Reactions on surfaces for the creation of supramolecular polymers.   Dr. Meike St?r
(CH)  
10:30 - 11:10   Coffee break  
 
   
Session 11 Chair: Gerald Dujardin  

 
11:10 - 11:50   Momentum imaging of negative ions and dissociative electron attachment   Prof. E. Krishnakumar
(UK/IN)  
11:50 - 12:15   Single electron track simulation in methane.   Ms. Martina Fuss
(ES)  
12:15 - 12:40   Isotope effect in dissociative electron attachment cross sections in acetylene.   Mr. Olivier May
(CH)  
12:40 - 14:00   Lunch Break  
 
   
Session 12 Chair: Klaus Edinger  

 
14:00 - 14:40   1 nm thin carbon nanosheets with tunable conductivity and stiffness   Prof. Armin G?zh?ser
(DE)  
14:40 - 15:05   Low-energy electron-induced reaction between ammonia and ethylene driven by ionization   Mr. Thorben Hamann
(DE)  
15:05 - 15:30   Nanolithography in the extreme ultraviolet range   Dr. Harun Solak
(CH)  
  Closing remarks  
 
18:00  Departure for conference dinner  
 
   
 

Tuesday 9th June 2009 

 
 
   
 
  Departure  
 

List of Speakers

Plenary
Prof. John Polanyi University of Toronto, Canada
Prof. Wilson Ho University of California, Irvine, CA, Us
Review
Prof. Michael Allan Institut de Chimie Physique Swiss
Prof. Adam Foster Helsinki University of Technology, Finnland
Prof. E.Krishnakumar The Open University, UK / Tata Institute, Bombay, India
Dr. Anne Lafosse Universite Paris-Sud, France
Dr. Hubertus Marbach Universite Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
Prof. Nigel Mason The Open University, UK
Prof. Karina Morgenstern Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
Prof. Leon Sanche The Open University, UK / Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada
Reports
Dr. Hassan Abdoul-Carime Ecole normale superieure de Lyon, France
Dr. Isabella Baccarelli CASPUR Supercomputing Consortium, Italy
Dr. Richard Balog University of Aarhus, Denmark
Dr. Marie-Laure Bocquet Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Dr. Roman Curik J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Republic
Dr. Filipe Ferreira da Silva Leopold-Franzens-Universite Innsbruck, Austria
Martina Fuss Instituto de Matematicas y Fisica Fundamental (IMAFF), Spain
Dr. Paulo Gomes New University of Lisbon Portugal
Prof. Armin Golzhauser Universite Bielefeld Germany
Dipl. Chem. Thorben Hamann Universite Bremen Germany
Prof. Bianca A. Hermann Walther-Meissner-Institute, Germany
Prof. Oddur Ingolfsson University of Iceland, Iceland
Dipl Chem. Constanze Konig Freie Universite Berlin, Germany
Dr. Janina Kopyra University of Podlasie, Poland
Prof. Bratislav Marinkovic Center for Atomic and Subatomic Physics, Serbia
Dr. Andreas Mauracher Leopold-Franzens-Universite Innsbruck, Austria
Prof. Stefan Matecjik Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Dr. Roberto Otero Instituto Madrileno de Estudios Avanzados (Imdea), Spain
Prof. Richard Palmer University of Birmingham, UK
Dr. Manfred Parschau Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Research (EMPA), Swiss
Dr. Harun Solak Paul Scherrer Institut, Swiss
Dr. Meike Stohr University of Basel, Swiss
Dr. Willem van Dorp Delft University of Technology, Netherlands