May 21 – 27, 2025
Erice (Sicily), Italy
International School of Solid State Physics (90th Workshop) at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture
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 present workshop is to bring together researchers in adjacent fields in order to examine recent and future developments and to enhance the connection between different branches of research. To keep the discussion focused, it will concentrate on free clusters and related systems.
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.
Topics
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
Directors of the Workshop:
Vitaly Kresin, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Klavs Hansen, Tianjin University
Scientific Advisors:
Joost Bakker, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Giorgio Benedek, University of Milano – Bicocca
Juraj Fedor, Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague
Director of the International School of Solid State Physics: Prof. Giorgio Benedek
President of EMFCSC: Prof. Antonino Zichichi
Updates: July 24, 2024