Towards Reality in Nanoscale Materials V
February 20th - 22nd 2012
Levi, Finland
The fifth workshop in the TRNM series. The workshop is held annually at Levi, in Finnish Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle.
Introduction
TRNM V continues the "Towards Reality in Nanoscale Materials" series. The previous workshops were held in December 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Graphene interfaces - emphasis will be placed on studying the interface of graphene with both adsorbed/deposited nano-objects and underlying substrates. Due to their importance in nano-electronics applications, a key topic will be the interface of graphene with oxide substrates.
- Defects - studies of doped and irradiated interfaces and the resultant defect structures. Beyond just studying and understanding the properties of defects and impurities, we wish to explore avenues of atomic scale control: charging; optical excitation; mechanical manipulation. This direction leads to the possibility of tailoring the electronic structure of nanoscale interfaces.
- Transport - studies of the migration of defects, impurities and electrons across interfaces.
- Methods - application of first principles methods to atomistic modeling of non- ideal nanoscale materials. Including advanced approaches for studying excited states and very large systems, and the limits of accuracy in electronic structure calculations.
- Multiscale - approaches to link first principles calculations to larger scale methods, such as kinetic Monte Carlo.
The workshop consists of invited and contributed talks as well as posters. Invited and contributed speakers will cover the recent progress in simulations and the relevant experimental areas.
Please also see the workshop poster.
Venue
Hotel
The workshop will be held in Levi, Hotel K5, in Finnish Lapland from Monday Feb 20th to Wednesday 22nd (but you may want to stay from Sunday Feb 19th to Thursday Feb 23rd). Accommodation will be booked by the organizers for all participants in the conference hotel. You will be staying in either a chalet or a normal hotel room.
Maps
Check the tourist map of Levi (Hotel K5 is item 3) to see what Levi looks like or an interactive map to see where Levi actually is.
Travel - by plane or train
There are flights from Helsinki to the nearby airport of Kittilä by Finnair (every day) and Blue 1 Scheduled buses meet every flight to Kittilä, and it takes about 10-15 minutes to reach Levi. If the flight schedule does not allow you to catch the connecting flight to Kittilä on the same day, you may consider having a stop-over in Helsinki and fly to Kittilä next day. Alternatively, you can fly to Rovaniemi (about 200 km away from Levi), then take a bus (it takes about two and a half hours to reach Levi). You can also rent a car at the Rovaniemi airport and drive to Levi (we guarantee no traffic jams, but there may be reindeer on the road). This could be a good option if several people arrive with the same flight. There are also both day and night trains to Lapland. To reach Levi, one can take the train to Kolari and continue to Levi with a bus.
Leisure
For those interested there are full facilities for both downhill and cross country skiing in Levi, among other winter and indoor sports options.
Weather
The long-time average temperature in Levi in February is about -10 C (15 F). The record high and low temperatures are about +5 and -40 C (+40 and -40 F). The length of day is about 8 hours. In any case, you can expect plenty of snow. Also check the current 5-day forecast for Kittilä. By the way, we have seen northern lights during two of the previous four conferences.
Costs
Participation fee
Participation is free. However, the number of participants is limited. If more applications are received than the conference facilities allow, the participants will be chosen based on their abstract and its relevance to the workshop.
Accommodation expenses
The organizers are planning to cover in part the accommodation and catering expenses for the participants. The participants are asked to pay 200-400 euros depending on the accommodation type through this form.
Funding
We thank the following funding agencies for support: European Science Foundation, Psi-k Network, the National Graduate School in Materials Physics, and the National Graduate School in Nanoscience.
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Registration
News regarding the registration and the workshop in general are announced in our updates RSS feed.
Registration is closed. Please contact the organizers if you have any questions.
If you have registered, you should have received mail confirming your contribution. Remember that there is no registration fee, but the partly subsidized accommodation fee (the actual value depends on the accommodation type you chose) must be paid by Jan 10th, 2012-01-10 to finalize your registration through this form.
Invited Speakers
- Emilio Artacho, Cambridge University, UK
- Carsten Busse, University of Cologne, Germany
- Peter Liljeroth, Aalto University, Finland
- Sokrates Pantelides, Vanderbilt University, USA
- Ruben Perez, University of Madrid, Spain
- Patrick Rinke, Fritz Haber Institute Berlin, Germany
- Stephan Roche, Catalan institut of Nanotechnology, Barcelona, Spain
- Matt Watkings, University College London, UK
- Susan Sinnott, University of Florida, USA
Programme
The programme is given below. You can read the corresponding abstracts by clicking on the names. A printed Abstract book will be given to all participants in Levi.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | |
| 8:45 | intro | ||
| chair | Rinke | Roche | Busse |
| 9:00 | Artacho | Busse | Roche |
| 9:40 | Boggild | Lehtinen | Ahlskog |
| 10:00 | Sob | Pietrucci | Makarova |
| 10:20 | Borlenghi | Booth | Carva |
| 10:40 | coffee | coffee | coffee |
| chair | Pantelides | Perez | Artacho |
| 11:20 | Watkins | Liljeroth | Pantelides |
| 12:00 | Barth | Ewels | Minato |
| 12:20 | Laasonen | Amara | Girard |
| 12:40 | Rayson | Kurasch | Uppstu |
| 13:00 | lunch | lunch | lunch |
| chair | Liljeroth | Boggild | |
| 16:00 | Rinke | 16:00 - 18:00 | Sinnott |
| 16:40 | Susi | posters | Mittendorfer |
| 17:00 | Standop | Perez | |
| 17:20 | coffee | ||
| chair | Sinnott | closing | |
| 18:00 | Chamberlain | 18:00 - 21:00 | |
| 18:20 | Bjork | dinner | |
| 18:40 | Philipp |
Organizers
The workshop is organized by the Department of Applied Physics in Aalto University, the Department of Physics in Tampere University of Technology, and the Department of Physics in University of Helsinki.
| Prof. Adam Foster |  |
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| Dr. Arkady Krasheninnikov |  |
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| Prof. Kai Nordlund | |
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| Prof. Risto Nieminen | |
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| Dr. Teemu Hynninen | |
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email: workshoptrnm at list.hut.fi
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Department of Applied Physics Aalto University P.O.Box 11100 FI-00076 Aalto, Finland Fax: +358-9-4513116 |
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Department of Physics Tampere University of Technology P.O.Box 692 FI-33101 TUT Tampere, Finland Fax: +358-3-31152600 |
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Department of Physics University of Helsinki P.O.Box 64 FI-00014 Univ. of Helsinki, Finland Fax: +358-9-19150610 |