Program, Plenary and Keynote Speakers
The SCTE2012 will start with a Welcome Address, on Saturday, March 31, evening.
The Scientific Program begins on Sunday, April 1, morning and will continue until Thursday, April 5, closing just before lunch time.
SCTE1012 will have a Special Session Dedicated to the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011.
Professor Walter Steurer (ETH Zürich Switzerland) will be the Speaker of this session,
with the Lecture “Complex
intermetallics - simpler than you think”.
A half day trip to Sintra (link http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/723), a UNESCO World Heritage Centre, is schedule for Tuesday, April 3, after lunch.
The Conference Dinner will be on Wednesday, April 4.
New
Conference Program Updated
List of Oral Presentations Updated
List of Poster Presentations Updated
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Juan Bartolomé (CSIC, ICMA Zaragoza, Spain)
Exotic Magnetism in Au, Pt and Pd nanoparticles
Prof. Hideo Hosono (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Iron pnictide superconductors and relevant functional materials
Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis (Department of Chemistry, Northwestern
University, USA)
Synthesis and Crystal Growth of Complex Intermetallics from Metallic
Fluxes
Prof. Nataliya E. Skryabina (Perm State University, Russia)
Relationships between microstructure/nanostructure and stress
development of Mg-based alloys doped with transition metals
Prof. Ryszard Zach (Polytechnic University Cracow, Poland)
Magnetic properties of selected MM’X-type (M=metal 3d, M'=metal 3d
or 4d X=As,P,Ge,Si) intermetallics crystallizing in hexagonal or
orthorhombic crystal structure
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Gabriele Cacciamani (Chem. Industrial Chem. Dept., Univ.
Genova, Italy)
Ni interactions: a thermodynamic database for the
B–Hf–Ni–Ti–Zr system
Dr. Bernard Chevalier (Inst. Chimie de la Matière Condensée de
Bordeaux, France)
Hydrogenation and electronic state of cerium
Prof. João Gil (Coimbra University, Portugal)
PAC for intermetallic hydrides
Prof. Walter Steurer (ETH Zürich Switzerland)
Complex intermetallics - simpler than you think
Prof. Peter Wachter (ETH Zürich Switzerland)
Cu, Pu and Fe high Tc superconductors: all the same mechanism
Dr. Frank R. Wagner (MPI CPfS Dresden, Germany)
Metal-Metal Bonding in Transition Metal Compounds: A Direct Space
Perspective