Thursday, July 20
09:00 – 11:15 | Participants registration |
11:15 – 11:30 | ISACC 2023 Opening |
11:30 – 13:00 | Morning session I: Structural and phase transformations in nanoscopic systems (Chair: Shiv Khanna) |
Andrey Solov’yov, MBN Research Center, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, On the mechanisms of radiation-induced structural transformations in metal clusters and biomolecules | |
Florent Calvo, University Grenoble Alpes / CNRS, Grenoble, France, Interplay between shape, size, and surface segregation in high-entropy nanoalloys | |
Richard Palmer, Nanomaterials Lab, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, Nanoclusters in the real world: Insights into deposited clusters from aberration-corrected electron microscopy | |
13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 – 16:00 | Afternoon session I: Structure and dynamics of atomic clusters and nanoparticles. (Chair: Florent Calvo) |
Hannes Jónsson, Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland Reassignment of 'magic numbers' for Au nanoclusters in the range of 50 to 2000 atoms | |
Stefan Bergmeister, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria New developments in helium nanodroplet experiments | |
Christoph Lienau, Institute of Physics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany, Strong couplings in nanosystems: Manipulating transport properties by light | |
16:00- 16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30 – 18:00 | Afternoon session II: Reactivity and nanocatalysis, (Chair: Richard Palmer) |
Shiv Khanna, Physics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA, Ligated metal-chalcogenide clusters for nano p- n- junctions and for converting CO2 to formic acid by tuning quantum states Jozef Lengyel, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany, Size effects in cluster chemistry and catalysis for the activation of small molecules |
Friday, July 21
09:30 – 11:00 | Morning session I: Clusters and biomolecules in external fields (Chair: Himadri Chakraborty) |
John Sutter, Science Division, Diamond Light Source Ltd, Chilton, United Kingdom. Diamond Light Source: the United Kingdom’s synchrotron radiation facility | |
Jan-Michael Rost, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany How does a fullerene dissipate its energy after multiphoton heating via the giant resonance? | |
Alexander Kuleff, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, Germany Ultrafast non-adiabatic relaxation in XUV-excited molecules: Dynamics in correlation bands | |
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30 – 13:00 | Morning session II: Collision and radiation-induced processes. (Chair: Anatoli Popov) |
Duncan Mifsud, Institute for Nuclear Research (Atomki), Debrecen, Hungary Intermolecular interactions in ice clusters: Relevance to radiation astrochemistry | |
Alexander Karaivanov, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University, Bulgaria CUDA Fortran implementation of Quantum Dissipative Dynamics code and its applications in stochastic descriptions of irradiation dynamics | |
Alexander Platonenko, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia Point defects diffusion in Al2O3 and MgAl2O4: ab initio study | |
13:00 – 13:15 | ISACC 2023 Closing |