Plenary Speakers

Hrvoje Petek (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"Ultrafast Hot Electron Generation in 2D and 3D Quantum Materials"

Junji Nakamura (Kyushu University, Japan)
"Catalytic Mechanism Contributing to a Carbon-Neutral Society"

Peter Walde (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"A New Method for the Controlled Immobilization of Enzymes on Silica Surfaces"

Keynote Speakers

Saw-Wai Hla (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
"X-raying Just One Atom"

Jun Yoshinobu (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Surface Chemistry on Well-defined Model Catalysts in Space/Time Domain"

Ray-Hua Horng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
"Growth Mechanism of Wide Bandgap Epitaxial Growth on Different Substrates and Relative Material Properties"

Rohrer Medal Award Lectures

Grand Medal

Franz Josef Giessibl (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
"Seeing Dents in the Atom"

Wilson Ho (University of California, Irvine, USA)
"The Realization and Applications of STM-IETS"

Rising Medal

Yi Chen (Peking University, China)
"Spin Liquids and Spin Qubits Probed by STM"

Miyabi Imai-Imada (RIKEN, Japan)
"Atomic-scale Visualization of Photocurrent Channels within a Single Molecule"

Invited Speakers

Surface Structures and Characterization

Michele Riva (TU Wien, Austria)
"ViPErLEED: Quantitative LEED Made Easy"

Iwao Matsuda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Unique and Exotic Structures of Low-dimensional Boron at Surfaces"

Sergey Subach (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany)
"Photoemission Orbital Tomography: Tracing Molecular States in Space(s) and Time"

Physics at Surfaces and Interfaces

Bent Weber (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
"Tunable Many-body Interactions in Bulk and Edge of the 2D Topological Excitonic Insulator WTe₂"

Binghai Yan (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Topological Quantum Materials and Topology-Induced Phenomena"

Mao Ye (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
"Recent Progress of the High-resolution Micro-focused ARPES Beamline at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility"

Guillaume Schull (CNRS Strasbourg, France)
"Atomically-Controlled Fluorescence and Photochemistry"

Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials

Ibrahim Abdulhalim (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
"Nanoporous Materials in Thin Film and Microparticle Forms for Sensing, Light Modulation, and Energy Saving"

Tetsuo Endoh (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Recent Progresses in Spintronic Low Power Semiconductors Technology from STT-MRAM to NV-AI Processor"

Weilu Gao (The University of Utah, USA)
"Chiro-Optics in Wafer-scale Twisted Stacks of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes"

Surface Chemistry and Dynamics

Leonhard Grill (the University of Graz, Austria)
"Single-Molecule Motion at Surfaces"

Ying Jiang (Peking University, China)
"Two-dimensional Ices on Surfaces"

Milica Todorović (University of Turku, Finland)
TBA

Environmental and Energy Applications

Baran Eren (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
"Chemical State of Nickel Nanoparticles during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction Revealed by X-ray Spectroscopies"

Bongjin Simon Mun (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
"Investigation on CO₂ Adsorption Properties on Pt, Cu, and Pt₃Sn with Ambient Pressure XPS"

Yousoo Kim (Riken and University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Single-Molecule Chemistry and Spectroscopy based on Molecular Excitonic States on Solid Surfaces"

Rui Wen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
"In Situ AFM Monitoring of the Electrochemical Processes at Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces in Lithium Batteries"

Soft/Bio Material Interfaces

Takamasa Sakai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Precision Gel Science for Gel Medicine"

Takashi Nakanishi (NIMS, Japan)
"Alkyl-π Liquid Electrets: Deformable Mechanoelectric Generators for Soft Electronics Applications"

Keiji Tanaka (Kyushu University, Japan)
"Dynamic Behavior of Polymer Chains at Solid Interfaces"

Ho-Sup Jung (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
"Design of Nanocarrier for Enhanced Mucus Permeation and Intestinal Adsorption through Oral Delivery Systmes"

Vacuum Technology and Surface Engineering

Natalia Kirchgeorg (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)
"NEG Coating for the Swiss Light Source 2.0 - from R&D to the Practical Application"

Xiuguang Jin (KEK, Japan)
"Growth Mechanism of Wide Bandgap Epitaxial Growth on Different Substrates and Relative Material Properties"

Taekyun Ha (POSTECH/Korea)
"Pill-type Getters as Distributed Pumps for the 4th Generation Storage Ring Vacuum System"

(Focused Session)   Carbon Neutral

Wan-Yu Tsai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
"Probing Local Ion Insertion through operando AFM"

Yuki Nomura (Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Japan)
"Visualizing Li-ion Diffusion in Solid-State Batteries using Operando Transmission Electron Microscopy"

Masaaki Kitano (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis at Solid Surface Anion Sites"

Lucas Foppa (Fritz Haber Institute, Germany)
"Data-Centric Heterogeneous Catalysis: Identifying Materials Genes with Artificial Intelligence"

(Focused Session)   2D Materials and Beyond

Pantelis Bampoulis (University of Twente, Netherlands)
"Quantum Spin Hall States and Topological Phase Transition in Germanene"

Alessandro Molle (ERC-CoG & PoC grantee, Italy)
"2D Epitaxial Xenes: Synthesis and Paths for Technology Applications"

Taishi Takenobu (Nagoya University, Japan)
"Strain Functionalization of Two-dimensional Materials"

Hitoshi Wakabayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
TBA

(Focused Session)   AI and Informatics

Katsumi Hagita (National Defense Academy, Japan)
"Coarse-grained MD Simulations for AI/Machine-Learning Based Analysis on Polymer Networks Adhering to Patterned-Surface"

Taro Hitosugi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Rise of Data- and Robot-driven Materials Science"

J. Joshua Yang (The University of Southern California, USA)
"Memristor Devices and Systems for Analog and Neuromorphic Computing"

Linda Zhang (Tohoku University, Japan)
"The Progress of “Turing Plan” for AI-Driven Hydrogen Materials Design"

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