Hayashi Conference : Next decades of Surface Science

The Hayashi Fund was established in 2010 at The University of Tokyo with the endowment by Dr. Chikara Hayashi, former President of ULVAC, Japan. In Dr. Hayashi’s philosophy, "Science and technology in vacuum should be among the key elements to realize a better human society". Surface Science has obviously flourished owing to ground breaking developments in vacuum technology. The theme of the first Hayashi conference, to be held in July, 2013, will hence be Surface Science. The conference aims to promote intense discussions of recent hot topics and to explore new directions in Surface Science by bringing together researchers from all over the world who are expected to forge the future of this field. The meeting focuses on the motion of atoms and electrons on solid surfaces based on robust knowledge of atomic and electronic structures.


Date : July 16 - 20, 2013

Venue : Shonan Village Center, Hayama (near Tokyo)

Number of attendants : 80

* All attendants are requested to participate in all sessions throughout the conference.

Chair :

K. Fukutani, S. Hasegawa, F. Komori (Univ. Tokyo, JPN)

Advisory board :

T. C. Chiang (Univ. Illinois, USA)
H.-J. Freund (FHI, DEU)
H. Kasai (Osaka Univ., JPN)
M. Kawai (Univ. Tokyo, JPN)
Y. Matsumoto (Kyoto Univ, JPN)
A. Oshiyama (Univ. Tokyo, JPN)
M. Scheffler (FHI, DEU)
E. Tosatti (SISSA ICTP, ITA)
R. Wiesendanger (Univ. Hamburg, DEU)

Keynote speakers :

T. C. Chiang (Univ. Illinois, USA)
H.-J. Freund (FHI, DEU)
Y. Matsumoto (Kyoto Univ, JPN)
J. Osterwalder (Zurich Univ., CHE)
M. Scheffler (FHI, DEU)
R. Wiesendanger (Univ. Hamburg, DEU)

Invited speakers :

J. Andersen (Lund Univ., SWE)
H. Brune (EPFL, CHE)
X. Chen (Tsinghua Univ., CHN)
M. F. Crommie (Univ. California, USA)
B. Roldan Cuenya (Univ. Central Florida, USA)
U. Diebold (Vienna Univ., AUT)
S. Ismail-Beigi (Yale Univ., USA)
Y. Miyamoto (AIST, JPN)
H. Petek (Univ. Pittsburgh, USA)
M. Rocca (Univ. Genoa, ITA)
N. Takagi (Univ. Tokyo, JPN)
H. H. Weitering (Univ. Tennessee, USA)
A. M. Wodtke (Univ. Göttingen, DEU)