Towards Reality in Nanoscale Materials VII
February 10th - 12th 2014
Levi, Finland
The seventh workshop in the TRNM series. The workshop is held annually at Levi, in Finnish Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle.
Introduction
TRNM VII continues the "Towards Reality in Nanoscale Materials" series. Links to the previous workshops are in the sidebar. The workshop will be focused on, but not limited to, two-dimensional systems, with thematic sessions on:
- Graphene - 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.
- Energy materials - focused on the application of nanoscale investigative techniques, particularly first principles modelling in energy-related research. Including photovoltaics, batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, hydrogen technologies, thermoelectrics, photo- and nanocatalysis, solar power technologies, magnetic refrigeration, and piezoelectric materials.
- 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.
See the workshop poster here.
You may also be interested in the Physics Boat workshop which we organize later in the spring.
Venue
Hotel
The workshop will be held in Levi, Hotel K5, in Finnish Lapland from Monday Feb 10th to Wednesday 12th (but you may want to stay from Sunday Feb 9th to Thursday Feb 13th). Accommodation will be booked by the organizers for all participants in the conference hotel or other hotels in Levi (Hotel Levitunturi, Hotel Levi Panorama). You will be staying in either a chalet or a normal hotel room.
Levitunturi is a spa hotel 200 m away from the conference site (access to spa is free if you are staying at this hotel). Hotel Levi Panorama is located on top of the mountain, just near the slopes, and it could be a good option for downhill skiers. Note that Levi Panorama is 4 km away from the conference site by road, but there is access by shuttle bus and cable car.
Maps
Check the tourist map of Levi (Hotel K5 is item 3, Levitunturi is item 9, Levi Panorama is item 53) 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, Blue 1, Norwegian. The latter fly not every day, but on Sunday the 9th there are 6 flights Helsinki-Kittilä altogether. 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 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.
Due to the generous support of the National Graduate Schools, we plan to support up to 4 PhD students from Finnish universities by waiving the accommodation fee. These will be selected based on the quality of submitted abstracts.
Accommodation expenses
Hotel accommodation, breakfasts, lunches and workshop dinner in restaurant Saamen Kammi are included in the accommodation fee. The precise amount you need to pay for your accommodation depends on the type you choose during registration. The fees range from 300 to 600 Euros (4 nights), as explained in the registration form. The accommodation fee is to be paid by credit card or money transfer. A link to the on-line payment system will be provided later on, along with the payment instructions.
Funding
We thank the following funding agencies for support: CECAM, the National Graduate School in Materials Physics and the National Graduate School in Nanoscience.
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Registration
The registration has closed. Please contact the organizers if you have any questions or would still like to participate.
Invited Speakers
- Ute Kaiser, University of Ulm, Germany
- Peter Sutter, Brookhaven National Lab, US
- Aron Walsh, University of Bath, UK
- Gabor Csanyi, University of Cambridge, UK
- Ludger Wirtz, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg
- Hannes Jónsson, University of Iceland, Iceland
- Gilberto Teobaldi, University of Liverpool, UK
- Nicola Marzari, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Jani Kotakoski, University of Vienna, Austria
Programme
Names of the speakers in the programme below link to their individual abstracts. A printed copy of the full abstract book will be provided to all participants by the organizers.
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| 8:45 | - | 9:00 | Intro | chair:Kaiser | chair:Sutter | ||||||
| chair:Jonsson | 9:00 | - | 9:40 | Sutter | 10:00 | - | 10:40 | Kaiser | |||
| 9:00 | - | 9:40 | Walsh | 9:40 | - | 10:00 | Lehtinen | 10:40 | - | 11:00 | Schulz |
| 9:40 | - | 10:00 | Lasa | 10:00 | - | 10:20 | Herbig | 11:00 | - | 11:40 | Coffee |
| 10:00 | - | 10:20 | Frost | 10:20 | - | 10:40 | Lawlor | chair:Wirtz | |||
| 10:20 | - | 10:40 | Pedersen | 10:40 | - | 11:20 | Coffee | 11:40 | - | 12:00 | Daraszewicz |
| 10:40 | - | 11:20 | Coffee | chair:Walsh | 12:00 | - | 12:20 | Coutinho | |||
| chair:Csanyi | 11:20 | - | 12:00 | Wirtz | 12:20 | - | 12:40 | Wallbank | |||
| 11:20 | - | 12:00 | Teobaldi | 12:00 | - | 12:20 | Hu | 12:40 | - | 13:00 | Carva |
| 12:00 | - | 12:20 | Gulans | 12:20 | - | 12:40 | Scardamaglia | 13:00 | - | 16:00 | Lunch |
| 12:20 | - | 12:40 | Musso | 12:40 | - | 13:00 | Carvalho | chair:Teobaldi | |||
| 12:40 | - | 13:00 | El-Sayed | 13:00 | - | 16:00 | Lunch | 16:00 | - | 16:20 | Kiejna |
| 13:00 | - | 16:00 | Lunch | 16:40 | - | 17:00 | Coffee | 16:20 | - | 16:40 | Koskinen |
| chair:Gulans | chair:Marzari | 16:40 | - | 17:20 | Jonsson | ||||||
| 16:00 | - | 16:40 | Csanyi | 17:00 | - | 17:40 | Kotakoski | 17:20 | - | 17:40 | Closing |
| 16:40 | - | 17:00 | Heinzel | 17:40 | - | 18:00 | Seitsonen | ||||
| 17:00 | - | 17:20 | Legut | 18:00 | - | 18:20 | Abergel | ||||
| 17:20 | - | 18:00 | Coffee | 18:20 | - | 21:00 | Posters | ||||
| chair:Kiejna | 21:00 | - | 23:00 | Dinner | |||||||
| 18:00 | - | 18:40 | Marzari | ||||||||
| 18:40 | - | 19:00 | Ke |
Organizers
The workshop is organized by the Department of Applied Physics in Aalto University 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 | |
email workshoptrnm at list.hut.fi - twitter @TRNM_workshop
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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 University of Helsinki P.O.Box 64 FI-00014 Univ. of Helsinki, Finland Fax: +358-9-19150610 |