ISSPIC10 Conference Schedule
Georgia World Congress Center
Atlanta, GA, October 11-15, 2000

Wednesday, October 11
 
07:30 – 09:00   Registration  
09:00 – 09:10   Opening Remarks, Gary B. Schuster, Dean COS Georgia Tech
       
Session W-I Dedicated to the memory of W. D. Knight
Chair: U. Landman
09:10 – 09:30   In memorium W. A. de Heer & V. Kresin
09:30 – 10:10 WI.1 T. P. Martin
MPI, Stuttgart, Germany
"Virus-like clusters of atoms"
10:10 – 10:50 WI.2 R. S. Berry
University of Chicago, USA
"Connecting cluster dynamics and protein folding"
10:50 – 11:15   Break  
       
Session W-II
Chair: O. Chesnovsky
11:15 – 11:55 WII.1 W. C. Lineberger
JILA & University of Colorado, USA
"The cage effect revisited in the gas phase:
solvent induced chemistry"
11:55 – 12:35 WII.2 R. N. Compton
University of Tennessee, USA
"Multipole-bound molecular anions"
12:35 – 12:55 WII.3 K. H. Bowen
Johns Hopkins University, USA
"The insulator-to-metal transition in magnesium clusters: a negative ion photoelectron spectroscopic study of magnesium cluster anions"
12:55 – 14:30   Lunch break  
       
Session W-III
Chair: L.J. de Jongh
14:30 – 15:10 WIII.1 K. Takayanagi
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
"Integral and fractional conductance quantization in nanowires at quantum point contacts"
15:10 – 15:50 WIII.2 J. van Ruitenbeek
Leiden University, Netherlands
"Shell structure in alkali metal nanowires"
15:50 – 16:10 WIII.3 D. Ugarte
LNLS, Campinas, Brazil
"Structural and Electrical properties of atomic-scale gold wires generated by mechanical stretching"
16:10 – 16:40   Break  
       
Session W-IV
Chair: T. Kondow
16:40 – 17:20 WIV.1 S. Nagel
University of Chicago, USA
"Snapoff, selective withdrawal and encapsulation: the role of singularities in free surface flows"
17:20 – 17:40 WIV.2 M. Moseler
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
"Nanojets"
       
17:40– 19:45   Dinner break // setup posters for Poster Session I
       
19:45 – 20:30   Reception  
20:30 – 23:00   Poster session I  
       
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