We are pleased to announce the International symposium Transition
metal oxides – clusters, surfaces and solids – structure,
dynamics and reactivity
organized by the Collaborative Research Centre 546*
of the German Science Foundation at Humboldt-University
Berlin.
The Symposium will be held at the Akademie Berlin-Schmöckwitz from
The symposium would like to bring together chemists working with real catalysts, spectroscopists characterizing them, surface scientists looking at thin films and deposited clusters, and people looking at naked clusters in the gas phase. Theory for gas phase species and extended solids will be also included.
The program includes invited talks by leading scientists of the field and contributed posters. Among those who have already agreed to speak at the symposium are: A. T. Bell (UC Berkeley), S. A. Chambers (PNL), K. Domen (Tokyo Institute of Technology), W. A. Goddard (Cal Tech), J. Jellinek (Argonne), M. Kappes (Karlsruhe), G. Pacchioni (Milano), J. H. Parks (Harvard), J. M. Vohs (U Penn), L.-S. Wang (Washington State Univ)
| Joachim Sauer | Hajo Freund |
*A long term funding frame of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with the aim to create core research areas at universities by establishing temporary centres of excellence and to promote interdisciplinary cooperation.
Participating groups: C. van Wüllen – Technical Univ Berlin; D. Schröder, H. Schwarz – Technical Univ Berlin; K. Asmis, K. Rademann, L. Wöste – Free Univ Berlin/Humboldt-Univ Berlin; J. Sauer, V. Ganduglia-Pirovano – Humboldt-Univ Berlin; M. Bäumer, H. Kuhlenbeck, H.-J. Freund – Fritz-Haber-Inst Berlin; R. Schlögl, J. Urban – Fritz-Haber-Inst Berlin; M. Baerns, E. Kondratenko – Inst for Applied Chem Berlin; E. Kemnitz – Humboldt-Univ Berlin; C. Limberg – Humboldt-Univ Berlin; H. Niehus – Humboldt-Univ Berlin; K.-H. Rieder, W. Theiss, F. Moresco – Free Univ Berlin; K. Ploog – Paul Drude Inst Berlin; K. Hermann – Fritz-Haber-Inst Berlin; D. Woodruff – Univ Warwick.