Conference Contributions

• Invited seminar: Stability, Electronic and Catalytic Properties of Supported Metal Clusters, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington at Seattle, 06/04/2008, Seattle.





• Invited talk: Atomic Vibrations in Metal Nanostructures, Nuclear Resonance Workshop, 2008 Users Meeting of the Advanced Photon Source, 05/08/2008, Chicago, IL.





• Invited colloquium: Stability, Electronic and Catalytic Properties of Supported Metal Clusters, Texas A&M, 04/18/2008, College Station, Texas.





• Invited talk: Stability, Electronic and Catalytic Properties of Supported Metal Clusters, Florida chapter of the American Vacuum Society, 03/10-11/2008, Orlando, FL.





• Invited talk: Stability, Electronic and Catalytic Properties of Supported Metal Clusters, 2008 Mesilla Chemistry Workshop: New Frontiers of Electro-catalysis, 02/9-13/2008, Mesilla, NM.





• Invited seminar: Thermal stability, Electronic and Catalytic Properties of Supported Metal Clusters, Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 01/31/2008, Upton, NY.





• Invited colloquium: Atomic Vibrations in Metal Nanoclusters, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 11/07/2007, Chicago, IL.





• Invited talk: Size, Oxidation and Substrate Effects on the Decomposition of Methanol for H2 Production via Size-Selected Pt Nanoparticles, Siemens Power Generation, 10/10/2007, Orlando, FL.





• Invited colloquium: Thermal stability, Electronic, Vibrational and Catalytic Properties of Supported Metal Clusters: Size, Interparticle Interactions and Support Effects, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Material Science Department, 09/10/2007, Urbana, IL.





• Invited talk: Electronic and catalytic properties of supported metal nanoparticles: Size, Interparticle Interactions, and Support Effects, NSF Inorganic Chemistry Workshop, 06/04-07/2007, Jackson Hole, WY.





• Invited poster: In-situ electronic and catalytic properties of supported size-selected gold nanoparticles synthesized by diblock copolymer encapsulation and Size, oxidation and substrate effects on the decomposition of methanol for H2 production via size-selected Pt nanoparticles, DOE-Catalysis meeting, 05/23-26/2007, Charlottesville, VA.





• Invited talk: Size-dependent study of methanol decomposition over size-selected Pt nanoparticles synthesized by micelle encapsulation, 136th meeting of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society -TMS, 02/28/2007, Orlando, FL.





• Invited poster: In-situ electronic and catalytic properties of supported size-selected gold nanoparticles synthesized by inverse micelle encapsulation, Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Reactions at Surfaces, 02/11-16/2007, Ventura, CA.





• Invited talk: Atomic Vibrations in Iron Nanoclusters, 16th Users Meeting of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility: Workshop on Nanoscale Structure, Vibrational Dynamics and Magnetism, 02/5-8/2007, Grenoble, France.





• Invited talk and short course: Catalytic properties of size-selected gold nanoparticles synthesized by inverse micelle encapsulation and Nanoscale Surface Physics, Mexican Society of Science and Technology of Surfaces and Materials, 09/25-28/2006, Puebla, Mexico.





• Invited talk: Atomic vibrational dynamics of size-selected isolated nanoclusters, 6th Seeheim Workshop on Mössbauer Spectroscopy, 06/07-11/2006, Seeheim, Germany.





• Invited talk: Vibrational dynamics of size-selected Fe nanoclusters, 2006 Users Meeting of the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory, 05/01-05/2006, Chicago, USA.





• Invited talk: Vibrational dynamics of low dimensional systems, 4th Nassau Mössbauer Symposium, 01/14/2006, Garden City, New York, USA.





• Invited seminar: Elektronische, magnetische, chemische und Schwingungs-Eigenschaften metallischer Nanostrukturen, Department of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, 12/19/2005, Duisburg, Germany..





• Poster: Gas phase catalytic processes on metal-oxide supported gold nanoclusters, 52nd International Symposium of the American Vacuum Society, 10/30/2005-11/04/2005, Boston, MA, USA.





• Invited attendee: NSF-Materials World Network, XIV International Materials Research Congress, 08/21-25/2005, Cancun, Mexico





• Invited seminar: Gas-phase nanoparticle catalysis,  04/28/2005, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA





• Contributed talk: Enhanced hyperfine magnetic fields for face-tetragonal Fe(110) ultrathin films on vicinal Pd(110), 03/24/2005, March meeting of the American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA, USA.





• Invited seminar: Size and support dependent electronic and catalytic properties of Au⁰/Au³⁺ nanoparticles synthesized from block-co-polymer micelles, 03/17/2005, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA.





• Contributed talk: Growth and magnetic properties of low dimensional systems, 03/15/2005, Florida chapter of the American Vacuum Society annual meeting, Orlando, FL, USA.





• 51^st Meeting of the American Vacuum Society, 11/14-19/2004, Anaheim, CA, USA.





• Microscopy and Microanalysis, 8/1-5/2004, Savannah, GA, USA





• Invited talk: Large Effects from Small Surfaces?, 03/2003, Physics department, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.





• Invited talk: Experimental studies of chemically activated electronic phenomena at surfaces, 03/2003, Physics department, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.





• Invited talk: Workshop on Nanocluster catalysis, Synthesis and characterization of oxide supported Au nanoclusters, 03/2003, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.





• Gordon conference: (poster) Chemical reactions at surfaces, Observations and explanations of electronic excitations from hydrocarbon reactions on transition metals, 02/2003, Ventura, CA, USA.





• Gordon conference: (poster) Chemical reactions at surfaces, Large effects from small surfaces?, 02/2003, Ventura, CA, USA.





• Seminar talk: Magnetism of step-decorated Fe/Pd(110), 08/30/2001, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA.





• Seminar talk: Growth and magnetic properties of ultrathin Fe on Pd(110), 08/28/2001, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA.





• Joint Summer Workshop on Mesomagnetism, Spin Dynamics and Spin Electronics, 06/30-07/5/2001, Santorini, Greece.





• 4th International Conference on Metallic Multilayers 2001, 06/24-29/2001, Aachen, Germany.





• Seminar talk: Vibrational dynamics of interfacial alpha-Sn in Sn/Si multilayers, 06/22/2001, Harvard University, Boston, USA.





• Spring conference of the DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellshaft), 03/25-28/2001, Hamburg, Germany.





• Workshop: Correlation of Structure and Magnetism in Novel Nanoscale Magnetic Particles, 10/29-30/2000, Slomenice Castle, Slovakia.





• 57th International Symposium of the American Vacuum Society, 10/02-06/2000, Boston, MA, USA.





• Seminar talk: Observation of the fcc-to-bcc Bain transformation in epitaxial Fe ultrathin films on Cu₃Au(001), 06/15/2000, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA.





• International Conference of Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME), 08/29/1999-09/03/1999, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.





• Spring conference of the DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellshaft), 03/22-26/1999, Münster, Germany.





• International Symposium on Structure and Dynamics of Heterogeneous Systems (SDHS 99), 02/24-26/1999, Duisburg, Germany.