Program

Monday, 19 May 2014

 

16:00 – 18:00

Participants registration

18:00 – 21:00

Conference reception

 

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

 

9:00 – 9:30

DySoN2012 Opening

Nigel Mason and Andrey V. Solov’yov

9:30 – 11:00

Morning session I: Structure and dynamics of clusters, nanoparticles and biomolecules

Nigel Mason, Open University, UK

Creating nanostructures with electrons and light

 

Eric Suraud, Universite Paul Sabatier, France

Clusters and molecules in extreme light

 

Julius Jellinek, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Analysis of structural and dynamical complexities of finite heterogeneous systems

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00

Morning session II: Structure and dynamics of clusters, nanoparticles and biomolecules

Richard Palmer, University of Birmingham, UK

Atomic structure and dynamics of size-selected clusters and polyatomic molecules

 

Jean-Patrick Connerade, Imperial College, UK

Selecting interesting atoms for quantum confinement

 

Michael Willkinson, The Open University, UK

Two universalities in semiconductor physics

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Afternoon Session I: Nanoscale insights in biodamage

Sandrine Lacombe, Universite Paris Sud, France

Enhancement of medical radiation effects using nano-radiosensitizers: evidence of nanoscale phenomema

 

Brenda Laster, Tel Aviv, Israel

Photon activation therapy joins nanomedicine: Auger electrons, G-quadruplexes in DNA and telomeres

 

Pablo de Vera, Universitat d’Alacant, Spain

Cell irradiation with ion beams: realistic description of subcellular compartments

16:00 - 18:00

Coffee and poster session

 

Wednesday, 21 May 2014

 

9:30 - 11:00

Morning session I: Propagation of particles through medium

Hartmut Backe, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Germany

Channeling Experiments at the Mainz Microtron MAMI

 

Andrei Korol, Goethe University, Germany

Simulation of radiation spectra from electron- and positron-based crystalline undulators

 

Vincenzo Guidi, Universita di Ferrara, Italy

Channeling of negatively charged particles

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00

Morning session II: Propagation of particles through medium

Ulrik Uggerhoj, Aarhus University, Denmark

Electrons channeled in bent crystals

 

Gennady Sushko, Goethe University, Germany

Simulation of electron, positron and muon channeling

 

Andrea Mazzolari, Universita di Ferrara, Italy

Experimental investigations of coherent interactions between a sub-GeV electron beam and a thin bent silicon crystal

13:00 - 13:15

Conference photo

13:15 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 18:00

Castle visit

 

Thursday, 22 May 2014

 

9:30 - 11:00

Morning session I: Collision processes involving nanosystems & RADAM database

Bernd Huber, CEA-CIMAP, France

Energy and charge driven processes in molecular clusters

 

Olof Johansson, University of Edinburgh, UK

Angular-resolved femtosecond photoelectron spectroscopy of fullerenes

 

Florent Calvo, Université de Lyon 1, France

Stability and rearrangement kinetics in nanoalloys

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00

Morning session II: Nanoscale insights in biodamage

Eugene Surdutovich, Oakland University, USA

Multiscale approach to the physics of radiation damage with ions

 

Stéphane Lucas, University of Namur, Belgium

Hadrontherapy: what can low energy particle accelerators bring to the field

 

Ilya Fabrikant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Electron-induced hydrogen loss in uracil and thymine molecules in a water cluster environment

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Afternoon Session I: Clustering and self-organization on the nanoscale

Andrey Solov’yov, Goethe University, Germany

Morphological transitions in nanostructures

 

David Field, Aarhus University, Denmark

Spontelectrics: a new form of the solid state

 

Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Controlling band gap energy in nanoscale materials with cluster building block

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Afternoon session II: Structure and dynamics of clusters, nanoparticles and biomolecules

Gustavo Garcia, Instituto de Física Fundamental, Spain

Electron and positron interactions with atomic and molecular clusters

 

Alexey Verkhovtsev, A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russia

Electron production by carbon and noble metal nanoparticles in collision processes

 

Lokesh Tribedi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Electron emission from uracil, water and fullerene in fast ion impact and many-body influence

19:00 - 22:30

Conference Dinner

 

Friday, 23 May 2014

 

9:30 - 11:00

Morning session I:

Presentation of RADAM database

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00

Morning session II

Electron controlled chemistry 

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Afternoon session I

NanoRadiation processes

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30- 17:30

Afternoon session II

NanoRadiation processes

17:30 - 18:00

Final Discussion and Conference Closing

 

The Castle visit  is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon 21st May. Tickets will be given for your visit.

Edinburgh Castle