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August 2-7, 2009
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

  
 
 
 

 
 
Detailed Meeting Schedule
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Sunday, August 2nd

Keynote Lecture

Chair: P. Coppens

19:00 – 20:00

J. Schneider, LCLS/SLAC, USA and DESY, Germany

Science at XUV and Hard X-ray Free-Electron Lasers

Reception

 

Monday, August 3rd

08:15 – 08:30

P. Coppens, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Welcome

Session: Charge Density I

Chair: Y. Wang

08:30 – 09:05

G. Eickerling, Universität Augsburg, Germany

Relativistic Effects on the Topology of the Electron Density

09:05 – 09:40

T. Koritsanszky, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA

Pushing the Multipole Model to its Limits

09:40 – 10:15

L. Farrugia, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

AIM Catastrophes in Transition Metal Bonding

Break

10:45 – 11:15

P. Luger, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany

Electron Density Contributions to Drug Development

11:15 – 11:50

M. Souhassou, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France

The CEDA project: towards a Convergence of Electron Charge,Spin and Momentum Densities Analysis

Session: Charge Density II

Chair: K-H. Schwarz

13:30 – 14:00

M. Spackman, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Intermolecular Interactions with ESP on HS atoms

14:00 – 14:30

B. Iversen, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Excited State Structures of Photomagnetic Crystals

14:30 – 15:00

M. Takata, RIKEN Harima Institute/SPring-8, JAPAN

Recent Progress in MEM Charge Density Study for Materials Science

Session: Poster Talks

Chair: P. Coppens

15:30 – 17:00

Short oral presentations by poster presenters

 

18:00 – 20:00

 

Poster Session I

 

 

Tuesday, August 4rd

Session: Spin Density

Chairs: B. Gillon & P. Becker

08:30 – 09:00

A. Gukasov, Leon Brillouin Laboratory, France
Site Susceptibility Approach in Magnetization Density Studies

09:00 – 09:30

P. Steffens, Institut Laue-Langevin, France
Spin Densities and Excitations - Magnetism in the Ruthenates

09:30 – 10:00

J. Campo, Zaragossa University, Spain
Spin Densities in Molecule Based Magnets: Understanding Magnetic Interaction Mechanisms

Break

10:30 – 11:05

V. Garlea, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Spin-density Distribution in a Partially Magnetized Organic Quantum Magnet

11:05 – 11:40

A. Wills, University College London, UK

Magnetisation Densities from Powder Neutron Diffraction: Molecular Magnets to Nanoparticles

11:40 – 12:00

C. Hoffmann,  Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Using Polarized Neutrons to Study Spin Density of two Biomimetic Iron Porphyrin Compounds

Session: Momentum Density

Chairs: M. Cooper and A. Bansil

13:30 – 14:15

K. Hamalainen, Univ of Helsinki, Finland

What can we learn on Intra- and Intermolecular Structures by Inelastic X-ray Scattering?

14:15 – 15:00

Y. Sakurai, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo, Japan

An Overview of the  Latest Spin and Momentum Density Studies on Hard Condensed Matter

Break

15:30 – 16:00

A. Koizumi, University of Hyogo, Japan

Study of Localized to Itinerant Electronic Transitions in the Heavy Fermion System CeRu2Si2 through 2-D Reconstruction of the Momentum Density

16:00– 16:30

M. Zahid Hasan, Princeton University, USA

Direct Evidence of Topological Insulators via Spin-density Imaging

16:30 – 17:00

B. Barbiellini, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Metal-Insulator Transitions in Complex Oxides probed by Compton Scattering

 

18:00 – 20:00

 

Poster Session II

 

 

Wednesday, August 5rd

Session: Theory & Experiment

Chairs: C. Gatti and B. Dittrich

08:30 – 09:15

C. Pisani, University of Torino, Italy
Ab-initio post-Hartree-Fock Estimates of the Effects of Electron
Correlation on the One-Electron Density of Crystalline Systems.

09:15 – 10:00

A. Martín Péndas, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
IQA and QTAIM Theory Developments

Break

10:30 – 11:00

P. Macchi, University of Bern, Switzerland
Interplay between Theory and Experiment in Charge Density Studies

11:00 – 11:30

W. Scherer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Charge Density Studies on Quasi One-Dimensional Superconducting

11:30 – 12:00

A. Bansil, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Modeling Highly Resolved Spectroscopies of Cuprate Superconductors: STM, ARPES and Optical Spectra

Excursion

 

18:00 – 20:00

 

Poster Session II

 

 

Thursday, August 6rd

Session: Time Resolved Studies

Chairs: P. Coppens and D. Miller

08:30 – 09:00

H. Chapman, LLNL &NSF Center for Biophotonics S&T, XFEL, DESY, Hamburg

Prospects for Molecular Imaging with X-ray FELs

09:00 – 09:30

J. Spence, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Femtosecond X-rays for Structural Biology

09:30 – 10:00

D. Miller, University of Toronto, Canada

Making the Molecular Movie": Quest for the Structure-Function Correlation of Biology

Break

10:30 – 11:00

M. Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Structural Tracking of a Bimolecular Reaction in Solution by Time-Resolved X-ray Scattering

11:00 – 11:30

Th. Elsaesser, Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany

Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Polar Solids studied by Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction.

11:30 – 12:00

E. Collet, University of Rennes, France

Multi-scale Dynamical Processes of Photoinduced Phase Transition in Molecular Solids

Session: Neutron Scattering

Chairs: A. Hurd and Th. Proffen

13:30 – 14:00

C.H. Lee, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan

Relationship Between Crystal Structure and Superconductivity in LnFeAsO1-y (Ln=Lanthanoid)

14:00 – 14:30

J. Thompson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA

Magnetism and Unconventional Superconductivity in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

14:30 – 15:00

J.  Park, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea

Neutron scattering for multiferroic materials

15:00 – 15:15

Discussion

Break

15:45 – 16:15

J. Chen, University of Frankfurt, Germany

Neutron Structure of DFPase: Insights into the Phosphotriesterase Mechanism

16:15– 16:45

I. Schuller, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

TBD

16:45 – 17:00

Discussion

 

18:00 – 20:00

 

Poster Session III

 

 

Friday, August 7rd

Session: Nanoparticles

Chairs: P. Montano and E. Isaacs

08:30 – 09:05

S. Louie, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Theoretical Nanoscience

09:05 – 09:50

A. W. Castleman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

Clusters and Superatoms:  Building Blocks for the Assembly of  Nanoscale Materials.

09:50 – 10:25

D. Talapin, University of Chicago, USA

Nanoparticle Synthesis, including Semiconductors, Self-assembly, emphasizes Collective Electronics and Magnetic Effects

10:25 – 11:00

G. Aeppli, University College, London, UK

Nano/Quantum Magnetism

11:00 – 11:15

Discussion

Break

11:45 – 12:00

P. Coppens, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA

Closing

 

 
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