Dear colleagues,

this is to advertise the topical session

Morphology prediction at interfaces: Theory Meets Experiment,

which is being hosted by the Surface Science Division of the German Physical Society and will take place within the annual meeting of the German Physical Society (Section Condensed Matter) in Regensburg, March 2016. The symposium aims at improving the understanding of the origin as well as the impact of structural polymorphism at surfaces and interfaces that will ultimately facilitate a rational design and engineering of particular motifs to tailor structure-dependent functionalities.

Within this symposium, invited lectures will be given by:

Joerg Behler, Ruhr University Bochum (Simulations of Surfaces and Interfaces Using High-Dimensional Neural Network Potentials)

Sabine Klapp, TU Berlin (Non-equilibrium growth of organic molecules at structured surfaces)

Christian Kumpf, FZ Juelich (Growth and interaction phenomena of heteromolecular adsorbate layers on metal surfaces)

Angelika Kühnle, University Mainz (Interaction of water and alcohols with carbonate surfaces)

Karsten Reuter, TU Munich (Surface Morphology from First-Principles: Thermodynamics and Kinetics)

We welcome contributions on related topics such as global structure search methods, ab initio thermodynamics, structure-property relationships, growth studies, polymorphism, and many others. Abstracts should be submitted before December 1^st via the homepage of the DPG (https://www.dpg-tagung.de/r16/submission.html; choose “O: Surface Science Division” to submit to this symposium.)

With kind regards,

Oliver Hofmann, Milica Todorovic and Patrick Rinke

(The organizers)