Prof.
John Evans
(University of Southampton and Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire, UK)
9/15/11, 10:45 AM
Plenary session
Talk
The continuing search for more efficient processes for the manufacture of fuels, chemicals and materials is one of the more significant components in attaining a globally sustainable lifestyle. Whether it in atom-efficient syntheses, environmental protection, or transformations from alternative feedstocks, an understanding of the relationship between local structure around catalytic centres...
Prof.
Philip Donoghue
(University of Bristol, UK)
9/15/11, 11:30 AM
Plenary session
Talk
Most living vertebrates are jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes), and the living jawless vertebrates (cyclostomes) provide scarce information about the profound reorganization of the vertebrate head during the evolutionary origin of jaws. The extinct bony jawless vertebrates (ostracoderms) are regarded as precursors of jawed vertebrates, providing insight into this formative episode in vertebrate...
Dr
Elena Mengotti
(Laboratory for Micro and Nanotechnology, SYN department, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen-PSI. Switzerland)
9/15/11, 2:15 PM
Plenary session
Talk
Arrays of dipolar coupled ferromagnetic islands, arranged in specific geometries, provide an ideal tool to directly study the behavior of frustrated systems mimicking those found in Nature. In this presentation, single domain ferromagnetic islands arranged in the two dimensional kagome spin-ice geometry have been fabricated with electron beam lithography and the magnetic configurations have...
Dr
Alexander V. Boris
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany)
9/15/11, 3:15 PM
Plenary session
Talk
Recent advances in the synthesis of transition metal oxides (TMO) heterostructures with atomically sharp interfaces open new functionalities by tuning the interfacial properties of correlated electron materials, in the same manner as for semiconductor heterostructures. Motivated by the desire to realize the potential of TMO heterostructures in controlling collective quantum phases, we have...
Dr
Rafael Abela
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
9/15/11, 4:45 PM
Plenary session
Talk
The Paul Scherrer Institute is planning the construction of a X-ray free electron laser (SwissFEL), which will produce 20 fsec pulses of coherent x-rays in the wavelength range 0.1 to 7 nm, with extremely high peak brightness. These characteristics will provide opportunities for new experiments in chemistry, solid state physics, biochemistry and materials science. The presentation will focus...
Prof.
Steve Lee
(University of St Andrews, UK)
9/15/11, 5:00 PM
Plenary session
Talk
Perpendicular magnetic recording media have recording layers that are compositionally segregated, with grains of a magnetic CoCrPt alloy separated by a thin oxide shell, typically SiO2. The average grain diameter is typically 8 nm and film thicknesses are normally in the range 11 – 16 nm. These media have their magnetic moments oriented perpendicular to the plane of the film and have...
Dr
Tom Lancaster
(University of Oxford, UK)
9/15/11, 5:30 PM
Plenary session
Talk
The response of the superconductivity and structure of LiFeAs and NaFeAs to chemical substitutions has been probed using high-resolution X-ray diffraction measurements, magnetometry, and muon-spin rotation. The superconductivity is very sensitive to composition, with substitution of Fe by small amounts of Co or Ni in LiFeAs resulting in monotonic lowering of the superconducting Tc and the...
