Invited Speakers
Invited lecturers
Prof. H.F. Busnengo
Researcher at the Rosario Institute of Physics (IFIR - Argentina) in the group of Physical-Chemistry at Interfaces and Nanostructures (http://www.ifir-conicet.gov.ar).
His research interests focus on gas-surface interactions and elementary chemical reactions on surfaces: i.e. adsorption of atoms and molecules, molecular rotational excitation and diffraction, diffusion of ad-atoms, Eley-Rideal processes, etc. The objective is to reach a deep understanding of the key energetic and dynamic factors that govern elementary reactions on surfaces.
The main tools used are molecular dynamics simulations and state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations.
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Lectures proposed to Master students : Introduction to molecular dynamics simulations, numerical tools for reaction dynamics, recent progress in theory of elementary gas-surface reactions.
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Academic year : 2016-2017
Prof. B. Champagne
Professor in the chemistry department at the University of Namur (Belgium).
The research activities of B. Champagne encompass the development and applications of theoretical chemistry methods to predict and interpret the electronic, optical (linear and nonlinear), magnetic, and vibrational properties of molecules, polymers, supramolecules, and molecular crystals.
Lectures proposed to Master students : Density Functional Theory and Coupled-Perturbed Hartree-Fock Theory: Principles and applications.
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Academic year : 2016-2017 and 2017-2018
Prof. K. Richardson
Professor of Optics and Materials Science and Engineering at CREOL/College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida.
Dr Richardson carries out synthesis and characterization of novel glass and glass ceramic materials for optical applications, examining the role of structure/property relationships on resulting optical function and performance in bulk, planar and fiber optical materials. Prof. Richardson's group has extensive industrial and government supported research programs evaluating materials for precision molded optics, the use of non-oxide glasses in chem-bio planar sensors, evaluation of complex material interactions in next-generation integrated opto-electronic chip design, and in nano-composites for advanced detection and optical applications. Her laboratory at UCF houses facilities to design, process (melt/anneal), fabricate and characterize (optical, thermal, mechanical and chemical properties) heavy metal oxide (HMO) and non-oxide materials for the infrared in bulk, thin film and fiber form.
Lectures proposed to Master students: introduction to glass science, thermal history and the influence on glass structure, and tools to assess chemistry/structure/property relationships in glass. We will carry out a ‘virtual tour’ of the Glass Processing and Characterization Laboratory (GPCL) at UCF’s Optical Materials Laboratory (OML) and go through the process of batching, melting, fabricating and evaluating physical properties of traditionally melt-quenched glasses as well as solution derived glass films.
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Academic year : 2016-2017
Prof. D. Bowler
Professor of Physics, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences.
University College London (UCL)
Prof. David Bowler studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, and obtained his D. Phil from Oxford University in Materials Science. He is Professor of Physics at UCL, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. He has held research fellowships from EPSRC and the Royal Society, and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, where he is now PI in the WPI for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, and has been Professeur Invite at the University of Bordeaux. His research is based on close collaboration with experiment, and has focussed on semiconductor surfaces. He leads the development of the CONQUEST linear scaling DFT code with Tsuyoshi Miyazaki.
Lectures proposed to Master students: Defects and charge density wave in TiO2
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Academic year : 2017-2018
Address
Université de Bordeaux
Collège Sciences & Technologies
351 cours de la Libération
33405 Talence CEDEX, FRANCE