AVS 63rd International Symposium & Exhibition
    Surface Science Thursday Sessions

Session SS+AS-ThA
Celebrating a Life in Surface Science: A Symposium in Honor of JOHN T. YATES, JR.

Thursday, November 10, 2016, 2:20 pm, Room 103C
Moderators: John Russell, Jr., Naval Research Laboratory, Vincent Smentkowski, General Electric Global Research Center


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2:20pm SS+AS-ThA1
Introductory Remarks About Prof. John T Yates Jr. and his Scientific Legacy
V. Smentkowski, General Electric Global Research Center, John Russell, US Naval Research Laboratory
2:40pm SS+AS-ThA2
JOHN T. YATES, JR. - The Energizer Bunny (Invited Talk)
J. William Gadzuk, NIST
3:00pm SS+AS-ThA3
Polymer Precursors Studied by Mass Spectrometry, Ion Mobility and Computational Strategies (Invited Talk)
David M. Hercules, Vanderbilt University
3:20pm SS+AS-ThA4
From Symmetry to Applications: One of Many Journeys Touched by John Yates (Invited Talk)
Ellen Williams, Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy
4:00pm SS+AS-ThA6
A Tribute to John T. Yates Jr. and His Pioneering Work with Graphitic Surfaces (Invited Talk)
Patricia A. Thiel, Ames Laboratory
4:20pm SS+AS-ThA7
Surface Science influenced by Dopants (Invited Talk)
Hajo Freund, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany
4:40pm SS+AS-ThA8
Desorption: Out of the Vacuum, into the Liquid (Invited Talk)
Michael Grunze, KIT, Germany, H.J. Kreuzer, Dalhousie University, Canada
5:00pm SS+AS-ThA9
Infrared Spectroscopy in Surface Science: The Legacy of John T. Yates, Jr. (Invited Talk)
Michael Trenary, University of Illinois at Chicago
5:20pm SS+AS-ThA10
From Surface Science to New Catalysts (Invited Talk)
Ib Chorkendorff, Technical University of Denmark
5:40pm SS+AS-ThA11
Activation of Carbon Dioxide on Metal and Carbide Surfaces (Invited Talk)
Jingguang Chen, Columbia University
6:00pm SS+AS-ThA12
Thermodynamic Control of TTF-TCNQ Molecular Layers on Metallic Surfaces (Invited Talk)
Petro Maksymovych, Oak Ridge National Laboratory