Wednesday, July 31, 2019 (Canterbury Cathedral Lodge)
12:00 - 14:00 | Participants registration |
14:00 - 14:15 | ISACC 2019 Opening Nigel J. Mason and Andrey V. Solov’yov |
14:15 - 16:15 | Afternoon session I: Structure and dynamics of atomic clusters and nanoparticles |
14:15 - 14:45 | Henrik Cederquist, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. Slow electron emission from excited dimer anions |
14:45 - 15:15 | Manfred Kappes, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. Experiments with carbon containing clusters |
15:15 - 15:45 | Eleanor Campbell, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Molecular Maracas: a multi-state molecular switch based on Li@C60 |
15:45 - 16:15 | Mathias Rapacioli, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. Charge and excitation resonance in ionized aromatic molecular clusters |
16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
16:45 - 18:15 | Afternoon session II: Structure and dynamics of biomolecules |
16:45 - 17:15 | Andrey V. Solov’yov, MBN Research Center, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Irradiation driven multiscale dynamics of MesoBioNano systems |
17:15 - 17:45 | Jean-Patrick Connerade, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. The value of K-matrix theory for all systems held together by coulombic forces |
17:45 - 18:15 | Eric Suraud, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. On the inclusion of dissipative effects in clusters and molecules |
19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome reception |
Thursday, August 01, 2019 (Canterbury Cathedral Lodge)
9:30 - 11:00 | Morning session I: Electron and photon cluster collisions |
9:00 - 9:30 | Thomas Schlathölter, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. Interactions of gas-phase biomolecular ions with fast ions and with soft X-ray photons |
9:30 - 10:00 | Jefferson Shinpaugh, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. Gold nanoparticles as a radiosensitiser for proton and carbon ion irradiation |
10:00 - 10:30 | Rodolphe Antoine, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, Villeurbanne, France. Collision induced dissociation and collision cross sections of gold nanoclusters: new tools for structural characterization? |
10:30 - 11:00 | Alexey Verkhovtsev, MBN Research Center, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Computational studies of collision-induced fragmentation of molecular systems |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30 - 13:00 | Morning session II: Collisions with biomolecules |
11:30 - 12:00 | Brendan Dromey, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom. Studying nascent proton-driven radiation chemistry in H2O in real time using laser-based sources |
12:00 - 12:30 | Andrew Ellis, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. Accessing elusive molecular species by combining helium droplets with IR spectroscopy |
12:30 - 13:00 | Eugene Surdutovich, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA. Multifragmentation of Ar clusters by protons and heavier ions as a way to observe ion-induced shock waves |
13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 - 16:30 | Afternoon Session I: Cluster structure and dynamics on a surface |
14:30 - 15:00 | Nigel J. Mason, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. Electron and photon induced chemistry in molecular clusters |
15:00 - 15:30 | Richard Palmer, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom. Nanoparticle beam deposition: A novel route to the solvent-free creation of heterogeneous catalysts |
15:30 - 16:00 | Armin Gölzhäuser, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. Functional 2D nanomaterials and devices made by electron, ion and EUV induced processes |
16:00 - 16:30 | Pablo de Vera, MBN Research Center, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Joint Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulation of electron beam-induced chemistry on surfaces |
16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break |
17:00 - 18:30 | Poster session |
Friday, August 02, 2019 (Canterbury Cathedral Lodge)
9:00 - 11:00 | Morning session I: Ion-cluster collisions |
9:00 - 9:30 | Michael Dingfelder, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. Track-structure simulations in nanometer geometries |
9:30 - 9:55 | Himadri Chakraborty, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri, USA. Matter (ion) and antimatter (positron) collisions with fullerene nanomolecules |
9:55 - 10:20 | Mark Stockett, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. Non-statistical fragmentation of C60 and the formation of endohedral defect fullerenes |
10:20 - 10:40 | Suvasthika Indrajith, Normandy University, CEA-CIMAP, Caen, France. Energetic processing of hydrocarbons molecular species by ionizing radiation: towards the formation of cyclic species |
10:40 - 11:00 | Andreas Alberg-Fløjborg, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Ion collisions with biological targets. The early stages of ion beam cancer therapy |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30 - 13:00 | Morning session II: Clustering in systems of various degrees of complexity |
11:30 - 12:00 | Shiv N. Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. Transforming redox properties of clusters using ligands to create super dopants for two-dimensional semiconductors and to synthesize nano p- n- junctions |
12:00 - 12:30 | Sam Eden, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. Tracing radiation-induced reaction products to specific neutral isomer and cluster precursors |
12:30 - 13:00 | Jon Golding, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. Element choice for nanoparticle radiosensitisers |
13:00 - 13:15 | Conference photo |
13:15 - 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 - 16:00 | Afternoon Session I: Cluster-molecule interactions, reactivity and nanocatalysis |
14:30 - 15:00 | Kiyoshi Ueda, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Atomic cluster experiments at SACLA, an XFEL in Japan |
15:00 - 15:30 | Jan-Michael Rost, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. Purification of XFEL spectra |
15:30 - 16:00 | Sadia Bari, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany. Gas-phase proteins studied at advanced light sources |
16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
16:15 - 18:00 | Conference tour |
19:00 - 22:00 | Conference dinner |
Saturday, August 03, 2019 (Darwin Conference Suite, Darwin College, the University of Kent)
9:00 - 11:00 | Morning session I: Clusters and biomolecules in external (electric, magnetic, laser) fields |
9:00 - 9:30 | Ilya Fabrikant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, USA Recent advances in the theory of electron attachment to molecules and clusters |
9:30 - 9:55 | Andreas Mauracher, Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck, Austria. Size-selected charged helium droplets |
9:55 - 10:20 | Jozef Lengyel,Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany. Effect of cluster environment on electron- and ion-mediated chemistry: from atmospheric chemistry to nanocatalysis |
10:20 - 10:40 | Xin Wang, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. Soft X-ray photofragmentation of gas phase oligonucleotides |
10:40 - 11:00 | Alfred Msezane, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, United States. New manifestations in low-energy electron scattering from the actinide atoms Pu, Cm, Bk and Lr |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30 - 13:00 | Morning session II: Cluster and biomolecular research with Free Electron Lasers |
11:30 - 12:00 | Linda Feketeová, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France. Evaporation of water molecules from excited water nanodroplets |
12:00 - 12:30 | Roland Wester, Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck, Austria. Reactions dynamics of small ionic clusters |
12:30 - 13:00 | Hidetsugu Tsuchida, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Influence of secondary electrons on biomolecular damage in water by fast heavy-ion irradiation |
13:00 - 13:15 | Conference closing |