The School is primarily aimed at PhD students carrying out research involving the study of surfaces and interfaces at the atomic and molecular scale, including Condensed Matter Physics, Material Science and Physical Chemistry.

Topics will include:

• Nanophotonics
• Astrochemistry at surfaces
• Biological surfaces
• Oxide surfaces
• Nanoparticulate surfaces
• Thin-film growth
• Computational methods at surfaces
• Vacuum techniques
• Advances and novel techniques for surface and nanoscience
• Careers session

There will be a choice of hands-on workshops in:

• CasaXPS analysis
• Image analysis
• An introduction to CASTEP DFT modelling for surfaces

CSW2016 covers all aspects of compound semiconductors - including growth, processing, devices, ICs, physics, spintronics, quantum information, mechanics, sensors, solar cells, and novel applications - and deals with III-V compounds such as GaAs, InP, and GaN; II-VI compounds such as ZnSe and ZnS; carbon related materials; oxide semiconductors; organic semiconductors etc. In the submission process, you need to select one of the following submission categories.

ISCS

• Growth and related technologies
• High-frequency and high-power devices
• Photonic devices
• Physics, spintronics, and novel device concepts
• Nanocharacterization and nanostructures
• GaN and related semiconductors
• Oxide semiconductors
• Nanocarbon and novel 2D materials
• Organic semiconductors and flexible materials

IPRM

• Epitaxy, novel materials, and nanostructures
• Electron devices and related technologies
• Optoelectronics devices and related technologies

Mechanical Quantum Systems: From Fundamental Physics to Real World Applications

Beyond Standard Optomechanics: Exploring New Mechanical Interactions

Fundamental Tools for Designing the Next Generation of Electrochemical Energy Storage

Scientific programme

Methods and techniques:

• High resolution diffraction and topography
• X-ray reflectometry and small-angle scattering
• Microdiffraction and nanodiffraction
• Coherent diffraction imaging
• Absorption and phase contrast imaging and tomography
• Resonant (anomalous) scattering
• Fluorescence imaging
• Time resolved methods
• Theory and simulations of X-ray scattering

Applications:

• Material science (from 0D to 3D objects)
• Nanomaterials and nanoscience
• Life and environmental sciences
• Non-destructive testing (including industrial needs and cultural heritage)

Instrumentation:

• X-ray optics and instrumentation
• Advances in laboratory instrumentation and applications
• Advances in synchrotron instrumentation and applications
• Experiments at X-ray free-electron lasers

ICME 2016

Second International Workshop on Software Solutions for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering

The second edition of the International Workshop on Software Solutions for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME 2016) will take place on 12-15 April 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. The first edition of this workshop was held in Rolduc (The Netherlands) on 24-27 June 2014.Â

The objectives of ICME 2016 are to discuss necessary steps and outline a concept to create a global and open standard for information exchange between different models/tools in ICME, to generate a comprehensive, structured inventory of solutions, to convene and to network software providers/developers â€" both commercial and academic - being interested to provide their solutions to the growing ICME community, to create awareness about existing models and solutions - along all the process steps and accross all the scales - for the computational modelling of multiphysics and multiscale problems, to identify options and needs for coupling of individual codes, and to identify needs for model functionalities up-stream the process chains on the basis of requirements by models downstream the value chain.Â

The workshop is promoted by the Integrated Computational Materials Engineering expert group (ICMEg) and supported by the European Commission under grant No. NMP3-CA-2013--606711.

This meeting will be devoted to recent advances in the operando investigation of reactivity at surfaces from both experimental and theoretical points of view.

The sessions of the workshop will cover various topics, mainly related to operando studies of the structure and the reactivity of a large range of catalytic tailored materials, including model surfaces, well-defined supported nanoparticles and electrochemical systems. The oral presentations and poster sessions will be open to a wide list of experimental techniques including spectroscopy, microscopy, X-ray scattering and scanning probes, new developments of instrumentation, and also to recent advances in the field of theoretical approaches and models of surface science and heterogeneous catalysis.

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Matteo Amati, Elettra Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy
• Hiroshi Kondoh, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
• Frances M.Ross, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA
• Alexander Schluger, University College London, England
• Oleg Shpyrko, University of California, San Diego, USA

Various spectroscopic techniques such as infrared spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, XAFS (NEXAFS / XANES), X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and inelastic X-ray Scattering will all be presented and discussed during the meeting. Potentials for further developments in these fields will be greatly welcomed. Ample opportunities for discussion will be available during coffee and lunch breaks and also at the poster session.

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Symposium Subjects:

• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials in Environmental Sciences
• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials in Medicine
• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials in Biology
• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials in Chemistry
• Toxicology of Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials
• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials in Innovation
• Computational Studies in Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials
• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials for Energy Storage

International School on Fundamental Crystallography
Fifth MaThCryst school in Latin America
Workshop on nanocrystallography

Havana, Cuba, 30 October - 5 November 2016

Change of date

The Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography is strongly committed to promote education in all the fundamental aspects of crystallography that nowadays are overlooked in common University courses.This mission is accomplished through a series of meetings in a wide range of regions. In fall 2016we organize a school in Havana, where the series started in 2007, followed by schools in Montevideo, in Uberlândia and in La Plata.

ISFC5: October 30 - November 4

Optional pre-school day: Sunday, October 30

Lecturers: Arbelio Penton Madrigal, Ernesto Estevez Rams, Leopoldo Suescun

• Introduction to matrix algebra with exercises
• Fourier transforms and convolutions

Monday, October 31, to Friday, November 4

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION AND BASIC CONCEPTS

Lecturers: Massimo Nespolo, Mois I. Aroyo

• Affine spaces vs. vector spaces
• Mappings: affine and Euclidean; isometries
• Sets; homomorphisms, isomorphisms, automorphisms
• Symmetry operations as special case of isometries
• Introduction to group theory: abstract groups, subgroups, cosets

SECTION II: CRYSTALLOGRAPHY IN DIRECT SPACE

Lecturers: Massimo Nespolo, Mois I. Aroyo

• Periodic structure of the crystalline matter
• Crystal lattice vs. crystal pattern and crystal structure
• Crystallographic calculations in direct space
• Symmetry directions in a lattice
• Unit cells: primitive cells, multiple cells, conventional cells in 2D and 3D
• Crystal families
• Symmetry groups and types of symmetry in direct space
  • morphological symmetry
  • symmetry of physical properties
  • symmetry of lattices
  • symmetry of the unit cell content
  • symmetry of crystallographic patterns
  • Hermann-Mauguin symbols for point groups
  • Lattice systems
  • Crystal systems
• Stereographic projection and the morphology of crystals
• Types of crystallographic point groups through the stereographic projection
• Symmetry operations with a glide component
• Space groups and types of space groups
• Exercises on the space group diagrams from Volume A of the International Tables for Crystallography
• Online tools for crystallography

Lecturers: Ernesto Estevez Rams, Leopoldo Suescun

• Fourier transforms and convolutions
• Crystallographic calculations in reciprocal space
• Diffraction symmetry: Laue classes, Friedel's law, resonant scattering
• Integral, zonal and serial reflection conditions and their use to determine the space-group type

SECTION IV: CRYSTALLOGRAPHY ONLINE

Lecturers: Mois I. Aroyo, Massimo Nespolo

• Introduction to the Bilbao Crystallographic Server
• Space Groups Retrieval Tools
• Group - Subgroup Relations of Space Groups
• Structure utilities and computer tools: different structure descriptions and structural relationships
• Tools for the study of structural phase transitions on the Bilbao Crystallographic Server

Workshop on nanocrystallography: November 5

Lecturers: Ernesto Estevez Rams, Ramundo Lora Serrano, Arbelio Penton Madrigal

• Definition of nanocrystals
• The truncated crystal model
• Diffraction effect in nanocrystals
• Surface relaxion in nanocrystals
• Total scattering methods in nanocrystallography
• Diffraction characterization of nanocrystals.

Posters exhibition

Monday, October 31 to Saturday, November 5

Venue

ISFC5 and workshop will be held at the Universidad des la Habana. Detailed information will follow.

Language

The official language of the school is English but the presence of Spanish speaking tutors familiarized in advance with the lectures will provid assistance to those needing it by translation or answering questions on the topic.

International Program Committee

• Prof. Mois Ilia Aroyo, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain, Chair
• Prof. Massimo Nespolo, Université de Lorraine, France
• Prof. Ernesto Estévez Rams, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba (1^st and 5^th ISFC, 2007, 2016)
• Prof. Leopoldo Suescun, Universidad de la República, Uruguay (2^nd ISCF, 2010)
• Prof. Raimundo Lora Serrano, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil (3^rd ISCF, 2012)
• Prof. Gustavo A. Echeverría, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina (4^th ISFC, 2014)

Local Organizing Committee

• Prof. Ernesto Estévez (Chair)
• Dr. Arbelio Penton Madrigal
• Dr. Beatriz Concepcion Rosabal

Contact:

For inquiries about the scientific program, please contact mathcryst@iucr.org. For all inquiries about the organisation, please contact:
Prof. Ernesto Estévez Rams
Universidad de la Habana, Cuba
estevez@imre.oc.uh.cu.