[Wien] WIEN2k Workshop + DFTEM Conference - April 2006 - Vienna

[buero at luitz.at]

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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
DFTEM 2006 - bringing together two communities
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http://www.physics.at/dftem2006

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THE CONFERENCE || April 21-23, 2006
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This three-day conference will focus on Density Functional Theory (DFT) and
Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) with the intention of bringing
together these two communites. The conference is dedicated to Karlheinz
Schwarz (DFT) and Bernard Jouffrey (TEM) on the occasion of their
respective birthdays, which we will celebrate at the conference dinner. The
conference will follow two days of separate workshops for the two fields.

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THE WORKSHOPS || April 19+20, 2006
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12th WIEN2k Workshop

This WIEN workshop deals with density functional (DFT) calculations of
solids using the (full-potential) Augmented Plane Wave plus Local Orbitals
(APW+lo) method as embodied in the WIEN2k code (http://www.wien2k.at) and
related topics.


2nd CHIRALTEM Workshop

The CHIRALTEM collaboration (www.chiraltem.physics.at) has recently
demonstrated that circular dichroism can be measured with EELS in a TEM,
contrary to common belief. This new technique opens the way to the study of
site and element specific magnetic moments in the TEM, thus extenting to
the nanoscale the well established XMCD or PEEM applied on a synchrotron.
During the workshop the know-how accumulated in the last two years by the
international collaboration will be disseminated to the interested
community.

A limited number of grants (max. EUR 300,--) is available for young
researchers (<35 years). Applications by sending an email to
dftem at physics.at including a cover letter and a CV are invited.

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REGISTRATION AND HOTEL RESERVATION
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Registration and hotel reservation is possible on the conference web site:
www.physics.at/dftem2006

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REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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A conference book will be available at the conference including extended
abstracts of all talks and posters presented. All abstracts should be
prepared in LaTeX using the template available from the conference website
and should be submitted electronically using our abstract submission
system. Abstracts in WORD format are also accepted, but must not contain
any graphics and should be sent by email to dftem at physics.at.

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FEES 
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Workshops:                       EUR 100
Conference:                      EUR 250
Conference and Workshop:         EUR 300 (available until Dec. 24, 2005)
Conference and Workshop Student: EUR 200 (when registering until Dec. 24)
                                         proof of student status required

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Ole Krogh Andersen, MPI Stuttgart, Germany
Peter Blöchl, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Gianluigi Botton, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Helmut Eschrig, IFW Dresden, Germany
Frank de Groot, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Börje Johansson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Klaus Leifer, Uppsala University, Sweden
Georg Madsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Manu Perez-Mato, Univ. de Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
John J. Rehr, University of Washington, USA
Lucia Reining, École Polytechnique, France
Matthias Scheffer, FHI Berlin, Germany
Virginie Serin, CEMES, France
Eric L. Shirley, NIST, USA
David J. Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Susanne Stemmer, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Isao Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan
Samuel B. Trickey, University of Florida, USA


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SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS
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Scientific contributions in the form of posters and oral communications are
welcome. The scientific board will decide on the form of presentation.
Poster boards are 2 meters high and 1 meter in width. For all contributions
an abstract must be submitted before the deadline January 31st, 2006.


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DEADLINES
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End of early registration period December: 24th, 2005
Deadline for abstract submission January:  31st, 2006

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VIENNA
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Vienna is the city of the Habsburgs, including Sissi and Franz Josef, of
Sigmund Freud and of the Lipizzaners. It is the city of famous scientists
like Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, Ernst Mach, Ludwig Boltzmann and
todays scientists like Anton Zeilinger.  Vienna hosts several hundred
museums, many of them featuring famous artists like Klimt and Schiele.
Every evening there are concerts and performances, operas and musicals in
the Vienna state opera, the Konzerthaus, the Musikverein, the Künstlerhaus,
many theaters and other places.  It is easy to spend many days full of new
impressions in Vienna.  The weather in Vienna in April averages between 6
and 15° Celcius, 6 hours of sunshine and 40 mm precipitation (13 wet days).
So you better bring your umbrella.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, Univ. of Graz, Austria Graz
Peter Blaha, TU Wien, Austria
Clemens Först, MIT, USA
Cécile Hébert, TU Wien, Austria
Eva Huber, Amici and IAST Austria
Kerstin Hummer, Uni Wien, Austria
Kevin Jorissen, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Dieter Kvasnicka, TU Wien, Austria
Jean-Philippe LaMarche, IAST France
Joachim Luitz, IAST Austria
Pavel Novak, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Peter Schattschneider, TU Wien, Austria
Jorge O. Sofo, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Michael Stöger-Pollach, TU Wien, Austria
Marc Willinger, FHI Berlin, Germany

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CONTACT
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DFTEM 2006
c/o IAST Austria
Wohlmuthgasse 18 . A-3003 Gablitz . Austria
Fax +43-2231-612544 . Mail dftem at physics.at . www.physics.at/dftem2006


This conference is organized by the association « Physicae et chimicae
solidorum amici » in cooperation with the Institute of Materials Chemistry
and the Institute for Solid State Physics of the Vienna University of
Technology (TU Wien) and with support of EMS (www.eurmicsoc.org)



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