Day 1 - July, 20th 2009

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• 08:45 to 09:15 - Registration
• 09:15 to 09:30 - Welcome
• 09:30 to 10:40 - Alberto Passerone
  
  Wettability studies: an efficient way to get information on solid-liquid interfaces
• 10:40 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Dominique Chatain
  
  Metal/oxide interface energetics: experimental data for assessing models
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Alessandro Turco
  
  Phase field simulations of wetting phenomena on rough surfaces
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:45 - Christian Leinenbach
  
  Active brazing of diamond and cubic boron nitride – interface reactions and microstructure
• 14:45 to 15:30 - Rada Novakovic
  
  Thermodynamic modelling of thermophysical and structural properties of liquid alloys
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 16:45 - Bengt I. Lundqvist
  
  Some Early Calculations of Metal-Ceramic Iinterface Adhesion
• 16:45 to 18:00 - Discussion

Day 2 - July, 21st 2009

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• 09:00 to 09:45 - Daniele Passerone
  
  Metal-ceramic interfaces: case studies for ab initio simulations
• 09:45 to 10:30 - David Fuks
  
  Morphology of ultra-thin Cu and Ag films on MgO (001) substrate from ab initio and thermodynamic study
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Christian Elsaesser
  
  Atomic-scale modeling of interfaces in functional metal-oxide devices
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Sibylle Gemming
  
  First-principles investigation of metal/oxide contacts and comparison with related metal/group-IV interfaces
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:45 - John Harding
  
  Simple models for metal-ceramic interfaces
• 14:45 to 15:30 - Graeme Ackland
  
  Why is stainless steel stainless?
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 17:00 - Discussion
• 19:30 to 23:00 - Dinner

Day 3 - July, 22nd 2009

• 09:00 to 09:45 - Edmund B. Webb
  
  High Temperature Wetting Phenomena in Metal Systems: Atomic Scale Insights from Numerical Simulations [Presentation given by C.A. Pignedoli]
• 09:45 to 10:30 - Liu Chunlei
  
  Characterisation and Modelling of Interface Reactions between Diamond and Active Brazing Alloys
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:30 - Wanda Andreoni
  
  Closing Remarks