Seminars

Seminars - Spring 2013 (HCI G574, Mo 16:00-18:00)

Extraordinary Seminar: Thursday, 28-Feb-2013, 15:00 - 17:00,
ETH Hönggerberg, HCI G7
Prof. Dr. Juri Grin, Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, DE
Complexity of intermetallic compounds: chemical meanings and physical consequences

Extraordinary Seminar: Thursday, 28-Feb-2013, 15:00 - 17:00,
ETH Hönggerberg, HCI G7
Prof. Dr. Sven Lidin, Division of Polymer & Materials Chemistry,
Lund University, Lund, SE
Zintl-Intermetallics

22-Apr-2013
Dr. Michael Böttger, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Design of thermal conductivity and thermal anisotropy in hard oxynitride coatings

29-Apr-2013
Dr. Ana Belén Pinar Prieto, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Template controlled acid sites distribution in zeolite ferrierite and its impact on catalytic activity

6-May-2013, 16:00
Dr. Claus Zimmermann, Astrium GmbH, München, DE
Materials challenges in photovoltaic energy generation in space

Autumn 2012

5-Oct-2012
Prof. Alex Grishin, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm-Kista, SE
Multimeric and multimodal photonic crystals: Modeling, synthesis, and functional properties

Tuesday, 9-Oct-2012
Radoslaw Strzalka, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Krakow, PL
Statistical approach to icosahedral quasicrystals - average unit cell concept for Ammann tiling

12-Oct-2012
Dr. Wolfgang Hornfeck, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR, Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Köln, DE
Structural chemistry with random numbers

19-Oct-2012
Prof. Leonid Braginskiy, Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk, RU
Resonant effects of light reflection on the photonic structures

9-Nov-2012
Dr. Juri Grin, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Dresden, DE
Chemical bonding and 'useful' properties of intermetallic compounds

16-Nov-2012
Daniel Schopf, Institut für Theoretische und Angewandte Physik,
Universität Stuttgart, DE
potfit: Effective potentials from ab-initio data

7-Dec-2012
Prof. Caroline Röhr, Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, DE
Electron-poor polar intermetallics - Complexity in structure and bonding

14-Dec-2012
Dr. Marek Mihalkovic, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SK
Tiling and atomic structure for decagonal ZnMgY quasicrystal

Spring 2012

2-March-2012
Heinrich Orsini-Rosenberg, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Heptagonal ordering in Gallium

23-March-2012
Jürgen Grässlin, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Preferred orientation to facilitate structure analysis of polycrystalline materials

30-March-2012
Dubravka Sisak, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Powder diffraction data: What can superflip do for you?

13-Apr-2012
Arkadiy Simonov, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
3D-PDF analysis of diffuse scattering

20-Apr-2012
Dr. Dmitry Logvinovich, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Modeling and refining atomic structures of decagonal quasicrystals

27-Apr-2012
Prof. Walter Steurer, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Why are quasicrystals quasiperiodic?

4-May-2012
Dr. Catherine Dejoie, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Toward the solution of challenging crystal structures using Laue microdiffraction

Extraordinary Seminar: Tuesday, 7-May-2012, 13:00 h
Prof. Andrey Gusarov, Ecole nationale d'ingénieurs de Saint-Etienne
(ENISE), F
Photon and phonon transport in layered systems described by matrix equations

11-May-2012
Julia Dshemuchadse, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Characteristics of cubic and hexagonal complex intermetallics

1-June-2012
Dmitry Lebedev, Department of Materials Science, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, RU
Phase diagram studies on the Al-(Cu)-Ta system

Autumn 2011

Thursday, 8-Sep-2011
Prof. Carlos Levi, Materials Department, University of Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Fundamental issues limiting the implementation of thermal barrier coatings in higher temperature engines

14-Oct-2011
Prof. Dr. Manfred Fiebig, Multifunctional Ferroic Materials
Magnetoelectric interactions in multiferroics

25-Nov-2011
Nikolay Komarevskiy, Institut für Feldtheorie
und Höchstfrequenztechnik / Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Optimal design of reflecting photonic structures for space applications

2-Dec-2011
Taylan Örs, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Structure analysis of decagonal ZnMgDy

9-Dec-2011
Dr. Michael Böttger, Laboratorium für Kristallographie
Thermal conductivity of hard coatings

Spring 2011

1-Apr-2011
Andrew Kentaro Inge, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, University of Stockholm, SE
Synthesis and structure determination of open-framework germanates

15-Apr-2011
Dr. Marek Mihalkovic, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Bratislava, SK
Prediction of low-temperature phase transition in Al₁₁Ir₄ compound

Thursday, 28-Apr-2011
Michael Böttger, Physics Institute, University of Oslo, NO
Thermoelectric properties of ZnSb - exploring the electronic structure

29-Apr-2011
Dr. Stefano Leoni, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, D
Numerical approaches to ferroelectric/relaxor materials: atomistic aspects and consequences for diffuse scattering

13-May-2011
Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin, Professur für Materialtheorie, ETH Zürich
Multiferroics; what they are, why they are interesting, and some open problems for crystallographers

20-May-2011
Pawel Kuczera, Lab. für Kristallographie
Real space approach to quasicrystal structure refinement. The structure of Al-Cu-Me (Me=Co, Rh, Ir) decagonal phases

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