Towards Reality in Nanoscale Materials '09

TRNM'09 follows the 2007 and 2008 workshops "Towards reality in nanoscale materials".

• Defects in nano-structured materials - including the study of how mechanical and electronic properties of nano-structured carbon materials are influenced by defects.
• Defect creation - studies of doped and irradiated nanoscale materials.
• Surface chemistry at the nanoscale - particular emphasis will be placed on those systems where defects and impurities clearly dominate reactive properties.
• Defect control - 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 systems.
• 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.

The workshop consists of invited and contributed talks as well as posters and short poster talks. Although the majority of invited and contributed speakers will be from theory, several invited experts will cover recent progress in relevant experimental areas.

See the workshop poster (350dpi png, 100dpi png, pdf).

The workshop will be held in Levi (Hotel K5) in Finnish Lapland from Monday 2009-12-07 to Wednesday 2009-12-09. 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.

Check the visitors' map of Levi (Hotel K5 is item 3) or an interactive map.

For those interested there are full facilities for both downhill and cross country skiing in Levi.

The long-time average temperature in Levi in December 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 only a few hours.
Check the current 5-day forecast for Kittilä.

Please, also see photos from last year's workshop.

We thank the National Graduate School in Materials Physics, the National Graduate School in Nanoscience, and the COST Materials, Physical and Nanosciences framework through Action P19 for support.

• 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. Priority will be given to students and young post-docs.
• Accommodation expenses - The organizers are planning to cover in part the accommodation and catering expenses for the participants. The participants may be asked to cover a part of their accomodation costs (depending on the number of people, at maximum 300 €).

Registration is closed. Please contact the organizers if you have any questions or requests.

Abstracts are available by clicking the names of the speakers. They have also been collected in an abstract book, which will be handed out to all participants at Levi. The dates below link to more detailed daily schedules.

Prof. Adam Foster
Dr. Arkady Krasheninnikov
Prof. Kai Nordlund
Prof. Risto Nieminen
Dr. Teemu Hynninen
Antti Tolvanen

e-mail: workshopTRNM(at)list.hut.fi

Department of Applied Physics Helsinki University of Technology P.O.Box 1100 FI-02015 HUT, Finland Fax: +358-9-4513116

Department of Physics Tampere University of Technology P.O.Box 692 FI-33101 TUT Tampere, Finland Fax: +358-3-31152600

Department of Physics University of Helsinki P.O.Box 64 FI-00014 Univ. of Helsinki, Finland Fax: +358-9-19150610