Workshop on
"Electronic Excitations and Magnetism in Clusters"

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan (USA)

September 23-25, 1992

Organizers: David Tomanek and George F. Bertsch, MSU

P r o g r a m

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Wednesday, September 23

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Morning


• 8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks
• 9:00-9:30 Walt A. de Heer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
  "Magnetism of Small Clusters"
• 9:30-10:00 Louis A. Bloomfield (University of Virginia)
  "Magnetism in Transition Metal and Rare Earth Clusters"
• 10:00-10:30 John Persson (Chalmers University of Technology)
  "Magnetic Deflection Studies of Metal-Atom Clusters"
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00-11:30 Michel Broyer (Universite Lyon)
  "Shell Structure of Trivalent Metal Clusters"
• 11:30-12:00 Joel H. Parks (Rowland Institute for Science)
  "Experiments on Trapped Cluster Ions"
  
  Afternoon Discussion/Poster Session
  
  

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  Thursay, September 24

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  Morning
  
  
• 9:00-9:30 Hellmut Haberland (Universitat Freiburg)
  "Transition from Single Electron to Collective Photoabsorption in Small Hg Cluster Ions"
• 9:30-10:00 Uwe Kreibig (TU Aachen)
  "The Evolution of the Cluster Plasmon in Embedded Silver Clusters from N=1 to N=10⁶"
• 10:00-10:30 Michael Vollmer (Universitat Kassel)
  "Interplay Between Collective and Single Electron Excitations in Large Metal Clusters"
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00-11:30 Vlasta Koutecky (Freie Universitat Berlin)
  "Comparison of Optical Response Properties of Alkali and Alkali-Halide Clusters, Metal-Insulator Transition in Small Clusters"
• 11:30-12:00 Constantine Yannouleas (Georgia Tech.)
  "Landau Fragmentation of the Mie Plasmon: Beyond the Uniform Jellium Background"
  
  Afternoon Discussion/Poster Session
  
  

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  Friday, September 25

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  Morning
  
  
• 9:00-9:30 Catherine Brechignac (Orsay)
  "Plasmon Resonance in Lithium Cluster Ions - Width and Position"
• 9:30-10:00 Ludger Woste (Freie Universitat Berlin)
  "Time-resolved observation of fragmentation processes in alkali clusters"
• 10:00-10:30 Gustav Gerber (Universitat Freiburg)
  "Femtosecond Probing of Resonances and Decay Times in Metal Clusters (Na_n, n=3-21)"
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00-11:30 Vitaly Kresin (UC Berkeley)
  "Electronic Structure and Collective Resonances in Non-Spherical Clusters"
• 11:30-12:00 Stefan Frauendorf (LBL)
  "Deformation-Induced Splitting of the Plasmon Resonance in Na₁₀-Na₃₄"
  
  Afternoon Discussion/Poster Session
  
  

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