Vacuum is ubiquitous in science and technology. Vacuum enabled the field of surface science, which in turn led to the creation of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
This meeting is organised as a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the British Vacuum Council, and a celebration of the award of the 2019 IUVSTA Prize for Science to Prof. Phil Woodruff of Warwick University. The Prize was awarded for “outstanding contributions to deepening our understanding of the structure of surface through the development and application of broadly applicable tools now widely available to the surface science community”.
To complement the presentation from Prof. Woodruff, we have chosen five internationally-leading surface scientists who will present their work covering structure, electronic structure, reactivity, and the physics of dynamic processes at surfaces and interfaces.
Programme
09:00 Registration opens in the atrium
09:50 Opening and Prize Presentation
10:00 BVC 60th anniversary presentation from 2019 IUVSTA Prize for Science winner Determining Surface Structure: Why and How?
Phil Woodruff, University of Warwick
10:25 Electronic Structure and Charge Density-Wave States in Single-Layer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides
Phil King, University of St Andrews
10:50 Tea / Coffee
11:10 Hot electrons: a new source of light on the nanoscale Kristina Rusimova, University of Bath
11:35 Chiral nanoplasmonic systems Malcolm Kadodwala, Univeristy of Glasgow
12:00 Lunch Break | Poster Session | Exhibition Session A poster prize will be awarded at 13:30 for the best poster
14:00 X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Beyond the Surface Anna Regoutz, University College London
14:25 On-surface covalent-coupling reactions: molecular, sub-molecular, and atomic scale characterisation Alex Saywell, University of Nottingham
