Workshop on
"Clusters as a Local Probe of Bulk Phenomena"

P r o g r a m

Wednesday, August 4

9:00-9:30 Catherine Brechignac (CNRS Orsay)
"Electronic response of metal clusters: valence vs. inner shell excitation"
9:30-10:00 Manfred M. Kappes (Universitat Karlsruhe)
"Electron localization and delocalization in clusters"
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 Claude Guet (CEN-Grenoble)
"Electronic and optical properties of metallic clusters in the RPAE approach"
11:00-11:30 Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky (Freie Universitat Berlin)
"Nature of excitations in Li_n rings, chains, two- and three-dimensional grids"

Afternoon Discussion/Poster Session

Thursday, August 5

Morning
9:00-9:30 Hellmut Haberland (Universitat Freiburg)
"Optical spectra of sodium cluster ions: effects of temperature and dynamical screening"
9:30-10:00 Piercarlo Fantucci (Centro CNR, Milano)
"Temperature effects on the line shape of optical spectra of alkali metal clusters"
10:00-10:30 Stefan Frauendorf (FZ-Rossendorf)
"Thermodynamic properties of the electron spectrum in Na clusters"
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Afternoon Discussion/Poster Session

Friday, August 6

Morning
9:00-9:30 Michel Broyer (Universite Lyon I)
"Electronic properties of Li_nH_m clusters"
9:30-10:00 Vitaly Kresin (Lawrence Livermore NL)
"Alkali cluster-atom scattering and electronic response properties"
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 Joel Parks (Rowland Institute for Science)
"Collisional relaxation and dissociation of trapped C₆₀⁺"

Afternoon Discussion/Poster Session