Quasicrystal Surfaces
The Abbey Court Hotel
Chester

P R O G R A M M E

Wednesday 7th March 2001

12.30 p.m. Arrive, registration, lunch

2.30 p.m. Introductory remarks (Ronan McGrath - The University of Liverpool)

2.40 p.m. Pat Thiel P (Inv) - Iowa State University, USA
‘Surface Properties of Quasicrystals: From Basic Structure to
Friction and Epitaxy’

3.30 p.m. Philip Moriarty – University of Nottingham
‘Making contact with molecules: adsorbed fullerences on Si surfaces’

3.50 p.m. TEA

4.20 p.m. Julian Ledieu – The University of Liverpool
‘Tiling of the Five-Fold surface of Al70Pd21Mn9 surface’

4.40 p.m. Malcolm Williams - The University of Liverpool
‘Real space imaging with ESDIAD’

5.00 p.m. Neville Richardson – St. Andrews University
‘Molecules at surfaces : what and how?’

Thursday 8th March 2001

9.30 a.m. Joel Chevrier (Inv) - LEPES-CNRS, France
‘Surfaces of quasicrystals: bulk transformation linked to surface preparation.’

10.20 a.m. Chris McConville – University of Warwick
Application of ion scattering techniques in the study of quasicrystal surfaces’

10.40 a.m. COFFEE

11.10 a.m. Renee Diehl (Inv) – Penn State University, USA
Diffraction studies of quasicrystal surfaces.’

12.00 a.m. Erick Cox - The University of Liverpool
‘Surface preparation of AlNiCo.’

12.20 Teehan Shen – The University of Salford
'The growth and characterisation of ultra thin metallic films on semiconducting substrates'

12.40 a.m. LUNCH



2.00 p.m. An PangTsai (Inv) – National Research Institute for Metals, Japan
‘Application of Quasicrystalline surfaces: Epitaxy and Catalyst.’

2.50 p.m. Quanmin Guo – University of Birmingham
‘Nano-crystals of Au on SAMs.’

3.10 p.m. Geoff Thornton – The University of Manchester
‘Cluster growth on TiO2(110).’

3.30 p.m. TEA

4.00 p.m. Guided Tour of Chester.

6.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. – Poster Session
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7.30 p.m. DINNER

Friday 9th March 2001

9.30 a.m. Peter Weightman – The University of Liverpool
‘Insights into electronic structure from electron spectroscopy.’

9.50 a.m. Karsten Horn (Inv) – Fritz-Haber-Institute, Berlin
‘Electronic Bands in Quasicrystals’

10.40 a.m. COFFEE

11.10 a.m. Andrew Evans – University of Wales, Aberystwyth
‘Electron Spectroscopy of organic semiconductors.’

11.30 a.m. Michael Hunt - The University of Nottingham
'Adsorption of C60 on InP(100): A photoemission study'

11.50 a.m. Concluding remarks

12.00 p.m. LUNCH