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Day 1 - June, 9th 2008

ARRIVAL OF PARTIPANTS AND WELCOME

• 09:30 to 11:00 - Welcome

SESSION I

• 11:00 to 11:45 - Brian A. Korgel
  
  Semiconductor nanowores: synthesis and the reality of surfaces and defects
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Peeters Francois
  
  Impurities in self-assembled free-standing semiconductor nanowires
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break

SESSION II

• 14:00 to 14:45 - Delerue Christophe
  
  Electronic properties of doped semiconductors nanowires
• 14:45 to 15:30 - Luis Froufe-Perez
  
  Statistical properties of transport through disordered nanowires: a random matrix approach
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 16:45 - Allon Hochbaum
  
  Enhanced thermoelectric performance in rough silicon nanowires
• 16:45 to 17:30 - Davide Donadio
  
  Heat transport in silicon nanowires by molecular dynamics simulations
• 17:30 to 18:15 - K Varga
  
  Formation and transport properties of nanowires

Day 2 - June, 10th 2008

SESSION III

• 09:00 to 09:45
• 09:45 to 10:30 - K Varga
  
  Formation and transport properties of nanowires
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Lincoln J. Lauhon
  
  Deconstructing semiconductor nanowires: atom-by-atom mapping of dopants, impurities and heterojunctions
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Abhishek Kumar Singh
  
  Exploration of the structure-property relation at nanoscale: from clusters to nanowires
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break

SESSION IV

• 14:00 to 14:45 - Daniel Ugarte
  
  Stretching atomic-size metal wires: atomistic aspects and quantum conductance behavior
• 14:45 to 15:30 - Kristian Thygesen
  
  Conductance oscillations in mono-atomic metallic chains
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 16:45 - Frederico Novaes
  
  Impurities in atomically-thin metallic nanowires
• 16:45 to 17:30 - Antonio José Roque da Silva
  
  Ab-initio calculations of electronic and transport properties of disordered one-dimensional carbon systems
• 17:30 to 18:15 - Arash A. Mostofi
  
  A maximally-localised Wannier function approach to the electronic structure of silicon nanowires

Day 3 - June, 11th 2008

SESSION V

• 09:00 to 09:45 - Volker Schmidt
  
  Silicon nanowires : synthesis and properties
• 09:45 to 10:30 - Xavier Cartoixa
  
  Theory of defects in one-dimensional systems
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Hiroshi Mizuseki
  
  Ab-initio calculations of quantum transport through atomic and molecular wires
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Simone S. Alexandre
  
  Ab-initio calculations of molecular wires based on one-dimensional polymers
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break

SESSION VI

• 14:00 to 14:45 - Marivi Fernandez-Serra
  
  Electronic transport in doped and functionalized silicon nanowires
• 14:45 to 15:30 - Troels Markussen
  
  Atomistic calculations of electron and phonon transport in silicon nanowires
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 16:45 - Dietmar Weinmann
  
  Nonlocal interaction effects in the quantum conductance of one-dimensional wires
• 16:45 to 17:30 - Andreia Luisa da Rosa
  
  Atomic and electronic properties of ZnO nanostructures
• 17:30 to 19:00 - Poster Session
• 20:30 to 23:00 - Dinner

Day 4 - June, 12th 2008

SESSION VII

• 09:00 to 09:45 - Hongqi Xu
  
  Electronic, optical and strain properties of semiconductor nanowires and nanowire heterostructures
• 09:45 to 10:30 - Kyeongjae Cho
  
  Electronic structure of nanowires: effects of surface chemistry and quantum transport modeling
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Yann-Michel Niquet
  
  Electronic, optical and transport properties of semiconductor nanowires: theory and simulation
• 11:45 to 12:05 - Seymur Cahangirov
  
  Confined states in multiple quantum well structures of SinGen nanowires superlattices
• 12:05 to 12:25 - Federico Iori
  
  Codoping goes to nano: Electronic and optical properties of boron and phosphorous codoped silicon nanocrystals and nanowires
• 12:25 to 14:00 - Lunch Break

SESSION VIII

• 14:00 to 14:45 - Maurizia Palummo
  
  Semiconducting nanowires : from single-particle to many-bod approaches
• 14:45 to 15:30 - Jose M. Soler
  
  Efficient DFT Calculation of Van der Waals interactions
• 15:30 to 15:45 - Closing word