Keynote Lectures and Invited Talks Print E-mail

 

  Keynote Lectures

KN-01

H. Metiu (USA)
Catalysis by Single Atoms: Water Gas Shift and Ethylene Hydrogenation

KN-02 

P. Sautet (France)
Does the catalyst’s active site control the chemical reaction, or does the reaction control the active site?
A catalytic causality dilemma

KN-03 

    

P. Raybaud, M. Digne, C. Arrouvel, D. Costa, C.H. Hu, P. Sautet, H. Toulhoat (France)
First principles surface thermodynamics of industrial supported catalysts in working conditions

KN-04 

K. Neyman (Spain)
Towards realistic models of catalysts: Density functional studies of nanoscale materials

KN-05 

G. Pacchioni (Italy)
Ultra-thin oxide films on metals: New materials with unprecedented properties

KN-06 

N. Rösch (Germany)
Hydrogen Activation by Transition Metal Species in Zeolites:
A Density Functional Study

KN-07 

B. Hammer (Denmark)
Oxygen chemisorption on reduced rutile TiO2(110)

KN-08 

I. A. Abrikosov (Sweden)
Phase stability and structural characterization of surface and thin film alloys

KN-09 

K. Hermann (Germany)
Excitations and reaction at metal and oxide surfaces: ab initio cluster simulations can help to interpret experimental results

KN-10 

B. Galabov (Bulgaria)
The Atomic Electrostatic Potential as Local Reactivity Index

KN-11 

C. J. A. Mota, N. Rosenbach Jr, A. P. Santos, M. Franco (Brazil)
Formation and stabilization of carbocations inside the zeolite pores

   
  Invited Talks

IT-01

R. Meyer, K. Mudiyanselage, M. Trenary (USA)
Density functional theory studies of amine chemistry on Pt(111)

IT-02 

Tzonka Mineva (France)
DFT studies of adsorbate complexes resulting from cycloaditions of unsaturated hydrocarbons on Si(001)-(2x1) surface

IT-03 

    

A. Corma, M. Boronat, S. González, F. Illas (Spain)
Chemoselective hydrogenation of substituted nitroaromatics with gold nanoparticles on TiO2: A cooperative effect between gold and the support

IT-04 

M. Szaleniec, T. Borowski, M. Witko, J. Heider (Poland, Germany)
Reaction mechanism of ethylbenzene dehydrogenase - where experiment meets theory

IT-05 

Angelos Michaelides (UK)
Electronic structure simulations of water solid interfaces

 


March 31, 2008
Deadline for abstract submission for oral presentations
April 10, 2008
Notification for acceptance of the oral presentations
Preliminary program
May 15, 2008
Deadline for abstract submission for poster presentations
May 24, 2008
Notification for acceptance of the poster presentations
Deadline for payment of the conference fee
After that date a late registration supplement will be added to the conference fee
June 25, 2008
Opening of the conference
Deadline for manuscript submission for Conference Proceedings