Sixth International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science

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Invited Speakers

There will be approximately 40 invited speakers. The complete list of invited speakers is given below:

Archaeological Materials

• Marine Cotte (C2RMF / ESRF, France)
  “Applications of synchrotron-based micro-imaging techniques for the analysis of Cultural Heritage materials”

Biomaterials

• David Shapiro (LBNL / ALS, USA)
  “Biological imaging by soft x-ray diffraction microscopy”

Engineering Materials

• Clare P. Grey (Stony Brook, USA)
  “Understanding How Lithium-Ion Battery Materials Function: In and Ex situ Studies of Local and Long-Range Structure”

Ferroelectrics and Ferroics

• K. Namikawa (Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan)
  “Snap Shot Observation of Polarization Clusters in BaTiO₃ by means of X-ray Laser Speckle”
• Valmor Mastelaro (USP, Brazil)
  “In-situ investigation of the short and long-range order structure of Pb_1-xLa_xTiO₃ ferroelectric compound using XAS and XRD techniques”

Films

• Galo Juan Soler-Illia (CNEA, Argentina)
  “Mesoporous Thin Films: use of in-situ and ex-situ synchrotron techniques for materials characterization”
• Christian Schlepütz (PSI, Switzerland)
  “Surface x-ray diffraction of complex metal oxide surfaces and interfaces - a new era”

Glasses and Liquids

• Shinji Kohara (SPRING-8, Japan)
  “Intermediate-range order in disordered materials”
• Nadya Pesce da Silveira (UFRGS, Brazil)
  “Smectic ordering in polymer liquid crystal-silica aerogel nanocomposites. Studies of DSC and SAXS”
• Adriano Filipponi (L“Aquila, Italy)
  “EXAFS and study of liquids”
• Ian Gentle (UQ, Australia)
  “Oriented monolayers of organic materials studied by XANES and reflectometry”

High Pressure

• John Parise (SUNY/SB, USA)
  “Towards a better understanding of the structure of nano-minerals at ambient and extreme conditions”
• Jean-Paul Itié (Soleil, France)
  “Pressure Induced Phase Transition: The Local Point of View”
• Yoshinori Katayama (SPring-8, Japan)
  “Pressure-induced changes of local tetrahedral structures in disordered materials”
• Chris Benmore (APS / ANL, USA)
  “Transitions in network and molecular glasses at high pressure”

Instrumentation

• Andreas Scholl (ALS, USA)
  “Imaging the Domain Structure of Magnetic and Multiferroic Materials Using X-PEEM”
• Shin-ichi Adachi (Photon Factory / KEK, Japan)
  “100-ps time-resolved X-ray diffraction applied to materials science”
• Tetsuya Ishikawa (RIKEN / SPring-8, Japan)
  “A compact x-ray free electron laser at SPring-8”
• Brian Stephenson (APS / ANL, USA)
  “Recent progress in x-ray focusing optics and techniques for nanoscale imaging of materials”
• Colin Norris (Diamond Light Source, UK)
  “Material Science at the Diamond Light Source”

Nanomaterials

• Joung Real Ahn (Yonsei University, Seoul)
  “Exotic electronic structures of self-assembled atomic wires on the Si surfaces”
• Andrew T. S. Wee (NUS, Singapore)
  “Molecular electronics studies by synchrotron radiation”
• Keisuke Kobayashi (NIMS / SPring-8, Japan)
  “Hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy applied to nano-technology materials”
• Felix Requejo (UNLP, Argentina)
  “Size, shape and order in Pt nanoparticles studied by X-ray Absorption and Scattering techniques”
• Rudolf Winter (University of Wales Aberystywth, UK)
  “Anomalous small angle scattering to probe the formation of nanoceramics and glasses”
• Till Hartmut Metzger (ESRF, France)
  “X-Ray Microdiffraction Study of Individual Semiconductor Nanostructures”
• Leandro Langie Araújo (ANU, Australian)
  “Characterizing structural and vibrational properties of nanoparticles embedded in silica with XAS, SAXS and auxiliary techniques”
• Ian Robinson (UCL, UK)
   “X-ray Coherence as an Imaging Tool”
• Maria Grazia Proietti (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
  “Structural properties of semiconductor nanostructures studied by Multiwavelength Anomalous Diffraction and Diffraction Anomalous Fine Structure Spectroscopy”
• Jonder Morais (UFRGS, Brazil)
  “In situ XAS studies of Pt_xPd₁-nanoparticles under thermal annealing”

Magnetic Materials

• Francesco D'Acapito (ESRF, France)
  “Local atomic order around metallic impurities in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors studied by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy”
• Eduardo Granado (UNICAMP, Brazil)
  “Depth-dependent spin structure of GdIn₃ close to the Néel temperature: an x-ray magnetic diffraction study”
• Waldemar Macedo (CDTN, Brazil)
  “Direct measurement of depth-dependent spin structure during magnetization reversal in exchange-coupled bilayers”
• Daniel Haskel (APS / ANL, USA)
  “Site-specific magnetic spectroscopy of functional materials”

Photo-materials

• Herbert O. Moser (SSLS / NUS, Singapore)
  “Free-space electromagnetic metamaterials from the far infrared to the visible”

Superconductors

• Kenji Ishii (JAEA, Japan)
  “Charge excitations in high-T_c superconducting copper oxides studied by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering”

Surfaces and Interfaces

• Ben Ocko (BNL, USA)
  “Surface Freezing in alkane melts and in Langmuir-Gibbs films”
• Abner de Siervo (UNICAMP, Brazil)
  “Photoelectron diffraction studies of Hafnium silicide formation on Si(100)”
• Wendy Flavell (University of Manchester, USA)
  “Fundamental interactions at oxide surfaces: understanding novel dye-sensitised solar cells”
• Angelo Malachias (LNLS, Brazil)
  “X-ray study of atomic ordering and defect evolution in Ge:Si(001) self-assembled islands”