The Workshop
DYNAMICS OF ELECTRONS IN ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR NANOCLUSTERS
http://physics.usc.edu/deamn20/
will be held on July 10-16, 2020 in Erice (Sicily), Italy at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, and you are invited to participate.

The motivation:
Electron dynamics governs a wide range of important effects in nanoscience. Nanoclusters, as important testbed systems for exploring and developing quantum size effects, novel materials, and reaction pathways, exhibit a range of phenomena which are highly sensitive to electron mobility, response, transfer, emission and attachment, direct and exchange interactions, correlations, etc.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers in adjacent fields in order to illuminate recent and future developments. To keep the discussion focused, it will  concentrate on free clusters and related systems.

The topics covered will be
Metallic, molecular and ionic clusters
Optical properties and spectroscopy
Storage rings, traps, laser cooling
Collisions, scattering, reactions
Excited states and relaxation
Attachment and evaporation
Quantum fluid clusters
Solvated electrons
Nanomagnetism

The program will include invited talks, selected oral presentations, a poster session and ample time for individual discussions. It is especially hoped that graduate and diploma students, postdoctoral researchers, and anyone who is interested in the interdisciplinary richness of
the subject will benefit from the Workshop.

Invited speakers
Markus Arndt (University of Vienna)
Joost Bakker (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Kit Bowen (Johns Hopkins University)
Simon Cornish (Durham University)
Giovanni De Ninno (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
Ilya Fabrikant (University of Nebraska)
Juraj Fedor (J. Heyrovský Institute, Prague)
Piero Ferrari (KU Leuven)
Eric Hudson (University of California, Los Angeles)
Naoko Kono (Stockholm University)
Tobias Lau (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin )
Jochen Küpper (University of Hamburg)
Mikhail Lemeshko (Institute of Science & Technology Austria)
Marcel Mudrich (Aarhus University)
Edvardas Narevicius (Weizmann Institute)
Robert Richter (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
Paul Scheier (University of Innsbruck)
Tigran Shahbazyan (Jackson State University)
Petr Slavícek (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague)
Eric Suraud (Paul Sabatier University)
Vitali Zhaunerchyk (University of Gothenburg)

Persons wishing to attend the Workshop are requested to submit an application (and an abstract, if they wish to present their own results)
by electronic mail, <DEAMN20@mail.com>, to the directors, Profs. V. V. Kresin and K. Hansen, following the instructions on the
workshop registration page
http://physics.usc.edu/DEAMN20/Registration.htm
which also gives information on fees and travel.

The program includes slots for “hot topic” oral presentations to be selected from the contributed abstracts; please indicate in your submission if you would like it to be considered.

If you have any questions, please consult http://physics.usc.edu/deamn20/ or
e-mail <DEAMN20@mail.com>. We hope to see you in Erice.

Sincerely,

Vitaly Kresin, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Klavs Hansen, University of Gothenburg
Directors of the Workshop

The workshop on Delocalized Electrons in Atomic and Molecular Nanoclusters will take place July 22-28, 2016 in Erice (Sicily), Italy at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture. For registration please go to

http://physics.usc.edu/deamn16

Purpose:
A wide range of important effects in nanoscience are connected with the presence and behavior of delocalized and mobile electrons.  Nanoclusters, as important testbed systems for exploring and developing quantum size effects, novel materials, and reaction pathways exhibit a range of phenomena which are highly sensitive to delocalized electrons’ mobility, screening, response, direct and exchange interactions, correlations, etc.  However, these phenomena are frequently discussed in non-overlapping venues, and the aim of the present workshop is to bring together researchers in adjacent fields to examine recent and future developments.  To keep the discussion focused, it will concentrate on free clusters and related systems.

Topics:
Fundamental quantum phenomena
General shell effects
Ionization and collective states
Optical properties
Molecular and ionic nanoclusters
Nanomagnetism
Quantum fluid clusters
Solvated electrons
Storage rings and traps

Program:
The program will include invited talks, selected oral presentations, a poster session and ample free time for individual discussions.  It is especially hoped that graduate and diploma students, postdoctoral fellows, and anyone who is interested in the interdisciplinary richness of the subject will be able to attend the Workshop.

Invited speakers:
    Rodolphe Antoine (University of Lyon)
    Markus Arndt (University of Vienna)
    Toshiyuki Azuma (RIKEN)
    Giorgio Benedek (University of Milano-Bicocca)
    Kit Bowen (Johns Hopkins University)
    Henrik Cederquist (Stockholm University)
    Juraj  Fedor (Heyrovský Institute)
    Gleb Gribakin (Queen's University Belfast)
    Hannu Häkkinen (University of Jyväskylä)
    Walter de Heer (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    Bernd von Issendorff (University of Freiburg)
    Koblar Alan Jackson (Central Michigan University)
    Franck Lepine (University of Lyon)
    Andreas Mauracher (University of Innsbruck)
    Catalin Miron (Extreme Light Infrastructure Project)
    Mark Pederson (Johns Hopkins University)
    Jan Michael Rost (Max Planck Institute, Dresden)
    Lutz Schweikhard  (University of Greifswald)
    Petr Slavíček (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague)
    Frank Stienkemaier (University of Freiburg)
    Lai-Sheng Wang (Brown University)
    Thomas Zeuch (University of Göttingen)

Registration is open for the Nordic Summer School on Clusters and Nanoparticles, June 23-27, 2014

The school, which has graduate students as its focus group, will give an overview of fundamental topics of clusters and nanoparticles. The topics covered are:

    Production and characterization of clusters
    Synchrotron based cluster spectroscopy
    Electronic structure: Shells, supershells and all that
    Trends in electronic and geometrical structure
    Thermodynamic properties
    Condensation nuclei and climate
    Applications
    Nanocarbon

The school is free of charge. Attendance is also open for citizens of non-Nordic countries.
For more details and registration, please go to:
http://physics.gu.se/~klavs/Sommerskole/School2014home.html

Organizers: Klavs Hansen, University of Gothenburg and
Henrik Grönbeck, Chalmers University of Technology.

Dear colleagues.

Springer has recently published my book 'Statistical physics of Nanoparticles in the Gas Phase'. It contains 11 chapters and three appendices, covering a number of phenomena and systems, such as rate constants for atom, electron and photon emission, abundance spectra and binding energies, powerlaw decay, simulation methods, thermally excited valence electrons, melting of finite particles, etc. It is of particular interest for experimentalists who work with gas phase nanoparticles and clusters.

You can find the complete table of content at
http://physics.gu.se/~klavs/publication.html
where there is also a link to the order form (you need to order it from Springer, I don't sell copies).

The book comes in three formats: Hardcover, softcover and a print-on-demand at a very reasonable price. The last requires that your liberary subscribes to the Springer e-books series.

Klavs Hansen