Thursday October 21

Conference: The Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Systems

Location: Ruppert Blauw, Uithof, Utrecht. (directions)

 

9.00	Frank de Groot	Introduction
	Spectroscopy in Bioinorganic Chemistry chair: Robert Schoonheydt (Leuven)
9.15	Ed Solomon Stanford	Spectroscopic Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue to Green to Red Copper sites in Electron Transfer
10.00	Steve Cramer Davis	Synchrotron Nuclear Spectroscopy of Fe-S Clusters in Nitrogenase and Hydrogenase
	Spectroscopy of Correlated Solids and Surfaces chair: Theo Rasing (Nijmegen)
10.30	George Sawatzky Vancouver	Transition metal ions in strongly correlated solids
11.00	Coffee (0.30)
11.30	Pietro Gambardella Barcelona	Free and coordinated transition metal ions on metal surfaces
	RIXS Spectroscopy in Chemistry and Physics chair: Manfred Neumann (Osnabruck)
12.00	Pieter Glatzel Grenoble	Chemical analysis with X-ray emission and RIXS
12.30	Amelie Juhin Utrecht	Magnetic materials studied with strong K edge MCD detected by RIXS
12.50	Lunch
	Nanoscale chemical imaging with Electrons and X-rays chair: Diek Koningsberger (Utrecht)
14.00	Odile Stephan Orsay	Recent developments in spatially resolved EELS: new possibilities, new questions
14.30	Matti van Schooneveld Utrecht	Imaging and quantifying the morphology of a hybrid bio-inorganic nanoparticle by STEM-EELS
14.50	Maya Kiskinova   Trieste	X-ray spectromicroscopy of TM in catalysis: towards deeper understanding of processes at surfaces and interfaces
15.20	Emiel de Smit Utrecht	In-situ Nanoscale Imaging of Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Catalysts
15.40	Coffee (0.20)
	Theory of X-ray Spectroscopy: Molecules and Solids chair: Ria Broer (Groningen)
16.10	Maurits Haverkort Stuttgart	Ab-initio multiplet theory of transition metal ions
16.40	Michael Römelt Bonn	First Principles Calculation of Transition Metal L-edges by a Spin Adapted, Restricted Open-Shell CI Approach
17.00	Hidekazu Ikeno Kyoto	Relativistic CI approach to the 3d transition metal L2,3 XAS spectra
17.20	Drinks + Posters