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  • Monday, 16 January 2006
    • 08:00 - 10:00 Registration
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 08:00 Registration 2h0'
    • 10:00 - 10:15 Welcome by C.N.R. Rao and K.R. Sreenivasan
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Welcome by C.N.R. Rao and K.R. Sreenivasan 15'
    • 10:15 - 11:30 Soft Chemistry Routes to Nanomaterials
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:15 Soft Chemistry Routes to Nanomaterials 1h15'
        Speaker: C.N.R. RAO (JNCASR, India)
    • 11:30 - 12:45 New NMR Approaches for Studying Battery Materials and Fast Ionic Conductors
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 New NMR Approaches for Studying Battery Materials and Fast Ionic Conductors 1h15'
        Speaker: C.P. GREY (SUNY, Stony Brook, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:45 - 14:45 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:45 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:45 - 15:05 Student Talk: Anionic Conduction: Variable Temperature ^17 O MAS NMR Study of Oxygen Motion in Bi_26 Mo_10 O_69 Derivatives
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 14:45 Student Talk: Anionic Conduction: Variable Temperature ^17 O MAS NMR Study of Oxygen Motion in Bi_26 Mo_10 O_69 Derivatives 20'
        Speaker: Lesley Holmes (SUNY, Stony Brook, USA)
    • 15:05 - 15:25 Student Talk: Synthesis and Characterization of Composites Based on Poly-2-Vinylpyridine
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 15:05 Student Talk: Synthesis and Characterization of Composites Based on Poly-2-Vinylpyridine 20'
        Speaker: Uzaira Rafique (Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan)
    • 15:25 - 16:40 Entropy Considerations in Polymorphic Phase Transitions of Solid Acids to Disordered, High-Conductivity Phases
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 15:25 Entropy Considerations in Polymorphic Phase Transitions of Solid Acids to Disordered, High-Conductivity Phases 1h15'
        Speaker: S. HAILE (Steele Laboratories, Pasadena, USA)
  • Tuesday, 17 January 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:15 Nanomaterials for Energy Storage
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Nanomaterials for Energy Storage 1h15'
        Speaker: P.G. BRUCE (University of St. Andrews, UK)
    • 10:15 - 10:35 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:15 Coffee Break 20'
    • 10:35 - 11:50 Lecture 5
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:35 Lecture 5 1h15'
        Speaker: C.N.R. RAO
    • 11:50 - 12:10 Student Talk: Magnetic Anomalies in Barium Titanate: Evidence of Localized Spin Singlet Electron Pairs
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:50 Student Talk: Magnetic Anomalies in Barium Titanate: Evidence of Localized Spin Singlet Electron Pairs 20'
        Speaker: Taras Kolodiazhnyi (NIMS, Japan)
    • 12:10 - 12:30 Student Talk: Influences of Alkali Reagents on Phase Formation and Crystal Morphologics of Hydrothermally Derived Lead Titanate
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:10 Student Talk: Influences of Alkali Reagents on Phase Formation and Crystal Morphologics of Hydrothermally Derived Lead Titanate 20'
        Speaker: Apinpus Rujiwatra (Chiang Mai University, Thailand)
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 14:50 Student Talk: Adsorption of Greenhouse Gases in Metal Organic Frameworks: A Microcalorimetric Study at Room Temperature and up to 50 bars
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Student Talk: Adsorption of Greenhouse Gases in Metal Organic Frameworks: A Microcalorimetric Study at Room Temperature and up to 50 bars 20'
        Speaker: Sandrine Bourrelly (Laboratoire Madirel, France)
    • 14:50 - 15:10 Student Talk: Low Field Magnetoresistance in Polycrystalline La_2 Sm_x Sr_1-x Mn_2 O_7
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 14:50 Student Talk: Low Field Magnetoresistance in Polycrystalline La_2 Sm_x Sr_1-x Mn_2 O_7 20'
        Speaker: Mohammed Abdul Basith (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh)
    • 15:10 - 15:30 Student Talk: Computation of the Photocurrent Density in a n-6H-SiC/p-Si/n-Si/p-Si0.8Ge0.2 Multilayer Solar Cell
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 15:10 Student Talk: Computation of the Photocurrent Density in a n-6H-SiC/p-Si/n-Si/p-Si0.8Ge0.2 Multilayer Solar Cell 20'
        Speaker: Abdellatif Bouzidi (Ecole Nationale D'Ingenieurs de Tunis, Tunisia)
    • 15:30 - 16:45 The Function of Heterogeneous Catalysts: New Insights by First-Principles Statistical Mechanics
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 The Function of Heterogeneous Catalysts: New Insights by First-Principles Statistical Mechanics 1h15'
        Speaker: M. SCHEFFLER (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 19:00 - 21:00 RECEPTION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 19:00 RECEPTION 2h0'
  • Wednesday, 18 January 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:15 Nanoanalysis of Defects in Perovskites
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Nanoanalysis of Defects in Perovskites 1h15'
        Speaker: M. RÜHLE (Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:15 - 10:35 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:15 Coffee Break 20'
    • 10:35 - 11:50 Multiple Property Oxides - Design Strategies
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:35 Multiple Property Oxides - Design Strategies 1h15'
        Speaker: M.J. ROSSEINSKY (University of Liverpool, UK)
    • 11:50 - 12:10 Student Talk: Preparation, Characterization and Magnetic Properties of Prussian Blue Molecular Magnet Nanowire Arrays
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:50 Student Talk: Preparation, Characterization and Magnetic Properties of Prussian Blue Molecular Magnet Nanowire Arrays 20'
        Speaker: Pingheng Zhou (Sincrotrone, Trieste)
    • 12:10 - 12:30 Student Talk: Self Assembled Monolayers as a Tool for Nanofabrication
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:10 Student Talk: Self Assembled Monolayers as a Tool for Nanofabrication 20'
        Speaker: Mariano Fonticelli (University of La Plata, Argentina)
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 14:50 Student Talk: Electrochemical Self-Assembly of Melanin Films on Au(111)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Student Talk: Electrochemical Self-Assembly of Melanin Films on Au(111) 20'
        Speaker: Patricio Jose Dip (INIFTA, Argentina)
    • 14:50 - 15:10 Student Talk: Recent Developments in Clay-Polyaniline and Clay-Polypyrrole Nanocomposites
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 14:50 Student Talk: Recent Developments in Clay-Polyaniline and Clay-Polypyrrole Nanocomposites 20'
        Speaker: Gamini Rajapakse (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)
    • 15:10 - 15:30 Student Talk: Adsorption of CO2 in Faujasite Systems: Multiscale Modelling Approach Compared to Experiments
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 15:10 Student Talk: Adsorption of CO2 in Faujasite Systems: Multiscale Modelling Approach Compared to Experiments 20'
        Speaker: Irena Deroche (Universite Montpellier II, France)
    • 15:30 - 16:45 From Molecular Species to 3D Frameworks: Computational Design and Structure Solution for Organic-Inorganic Materials
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 From Molecular Species to 3D Frameworks: Computational Design and Structure Solution for Organic-Inorganic Materials 1h15'
        Speaker: C. MELLOT (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, UK)
  • Thursday, 19 January 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:15 Novel Synthesis and Property of Boron Nitride Nanotube
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Novel Synthesis and Property of Boron Nitride Nanotube 1h15'
        Speaker: Y. BANDO (International Center for Young Scientists, Tsukuba, Japan)
    • 10:15 - 10:35 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:15 Coffee Break 20'
    • 10:35 - 11:50 Lecture 11
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:35 Lecture 11 1h15'
        Speaker: C. GREY
    • 11:50 - 12:10 Student Talk: Synthesis of Mesoporous CN, BN and BCN Molecular Sieves with Tunable Pore Diameters via Templating Method
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:50 Student Talk: Synthesis of Mesoporous CN, BN and BCN Molecular Sieves with Tunable Pore Diameters via Templating Method 20'
        Speaker: Ajayan Vinu (NIMS, Japan)
    • 12:10 - 12:30 Student Talk: Metal Dicarboxylates - a Comparison: Aromatic and Alicyclic Dicarboxylic Acids
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:10 Student Talk: Metal Dicarboxylates - a Comparison: Aromatic and Alicyclic Dicarboxylic Acids 20'
        Speaker: Alagursamy Thirumurugan (JNCASR, India)
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 14:50 Student Talk
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Student Talk 20'
        Speaker: Stephen Boyd (SUNY, Stony Brook, USA)
    • 14:50 - 15:10 Student Talk: Polymorphism in Open-Framework Zinc Phosphites
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 14:50 Student Talk: Polymorphism in Open-Framework Zinc Phosphites 20'
        Speaker: Sukhendu Mandal (Indian Institute of Science, India)
    • 15:10 - 15:30 Student Talk: Recent Results on Embedded Nanostructured Catalysts for Hydrogen Production
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 15:10 Student Talk: Recent Results on Embedded Nanostructured Catalysts for Hydrogen Production 20'
        Speaker: Paolo Fornasiero (University of Trieste, Italy)
    • 15:30 - 16:45 Non-Metallocene and Metallocene Catalysts for Olefin Polymerizations: Supports and In-Situ Preparation of Polyolefin Nanocomposites
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Non-Metallocene and Metallocene Catalysts for Olefin Polymerizations: Supports and In-Situ Preparation of Polyolefin Nanocomposites 1h15'
        Speaker: R. QUIJADA (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile)
  • Friday, 20 January 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:15 Biological Applications of Hybrid Sol-Gel Glasses
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Biological Applications of Hybrid Sol-Gel Glasses 1h15'
        Speaker: J. LIVAGES (C.N.R.S. Paris, France)
    • 10:15 - 11:30 Crystals Full of Nothing for the Storage of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:15 Crystals Full of Nothing for the Storage of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide 1h15'
        Speaker: O.M. YAGHI (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
    • 11:30 - 12:15 Closing Remarks followed by Coffee
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Closing Remarks followed by Coffee 45'