Invited Speakers...

    Solid State Chemistry - Oxides and Intermetallics

  • Werner Paulus, Université Rennes
    Low temperature oxygen mobility in non-stoichiometric oxides

  • Mas Subramanian, Oregon State University, USA
    Functional transition Metal Oxides: trigonal bipyramidal versus octahedral coordination

  • Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage

  • Anke Wiedenkaff
    Functional perovskite-type materials for energy technologies

  • Joachim Maier, Max Planck Institute, Germany
    Search for Materials and the Role of Size Effects

  • Multiferoïc Materials

  • Yoshinori Tokura, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Multiferroic materials with spin superstructures

  • Tsuyoshi Kimura, Osaka University, Japan
    Current progress of research on spin-driven ferroelectrics

  • Multifunctional Materials

  • Paolo Radaelli, University of Oxford, UK
    Nudging the Neumann's principle: new multifunctional materials from symmetry breaking

  • John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    Frustration and grave under pressure: three tales about novel oxides

  • New High TC Superconductors

  • David Mandrus, Nielsen Physics Building/ORNL, USA
    Spin fluctuations in Fe-based superconductors: what have we learned?

  • Dirk Johrendt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany
    Crystal chemistry of iron-based superconductors

  • Nanomaterials (focussing on nano-effects)

  • David Grosso, Collège de France, France
    Design and construction of complex nanostructured coatings by bottom-up approaches

  • Markus Niederberger, Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials, Switzerland
    Inorganic nanomaterials: 1500 years of success story