Welcome to the 4th International Symposium on Structure-Property Relationships in Solid State Materials

This international symposium follows the previous symposia held at Bordeaux (2006),Nantes (2008), and Stuttgart (2010).

The meeting will be devoted mainly to structure-property relationships in magnetic,optical, electronic, and functional materials. The goal is to highlight how the physical properties of materials are related to their structure and/or chemical composition and how these properties may be modified by varying the nature of the chemical bonds, the strength of the electron-electron interaction, the dopant concentration, etc.

This symposium will provide opportunities for experimental and theoretical solid state chemists, physicists and materials scientists to share their knowledge and expertise.

The conference will take place at ENSEIRB-MATMECA - 1, avenue Albert Schweitzer in Talence.
The ENSEIRB is only 200m from the tramway station "Arts et Métiers", on Tram Line B.

Preliminary Program (click here to download the PDF version)

Click here to download the PDF version of the Detailed Progam

List of Invited Speakers

- Robert J. Cava, Princeton Univ. (USA)
"The Metal to Insulator Transition in V1-xMoxO2 and the crystal Structures of the VnO2n-1 Magneli Phases"
- Pieter Dorenbos, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands)
"How structure and composition affect lanthanide impurity state energies in inorganic compounds"
- Eugenio Coronado, Univ. of Valencia (Spain)
"Multifunctional Magnetic Materials" 
- Jianshi Zhou, University of Texas, Austin (USA)
"Intrinsic structural distortions and their bias effect on orbital ordering and magnetism in perovskite oxides"  
- Luis Seijo, Autonomous Univ. of Madrid (Spain)
“4f-5d transitions of Ce(3+) in YAG and other garnets: ab initio calculations”
- Claudia Felser, Univ. of Mainz (Germany)
- Matthew Rosseinsky, Univ. of Liverpool (UK)
"Targeted Chemical Synthesis of Functional Materials"
- Stephen E. Nagler, Oak Ridge National Lab. (USA)
"Quantum Oscillations of Nitrogen Atoms in a Crystal"
- Mas Subramanian, Oregon State Univ. (USA)
"New Mixed Valent Rhodium Oxides with Tunnel Structures"
- Mi Gyung Kim, Dept. of History NCSU (USA)
"Stabilizing the Objects of Chemical Inquiry: A Historical Perspective"
- Hongjun Xiang, Fudan Univ. (Chine)
“Giant ferroelectric polarization of CaMn₇O₁₂ induced by a combined effect of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and exchange striction”
- Zenji Hiroi, Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
“Kagome physics in copper minerals“
- Kazushige Ueda, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan)
"Photoluminescence in some perovskite oxides"
- Kazunari Yamaura, NIMS (Japan)
“High-pressure synthesis and magnetic properties of new composite perovskite and related oxides”
- Sylvie Hébert, CRISMAT Caen (France)
"Thermoelectric properties of hollandite materials"
- Alessandro Lauria, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
"Tuning the optical properties of sol-gel SiO2 glasses through structural modifications: the role of fluorine"
- Pascal Roussel, UCCS Univ. of Lille 1 (France)
"Mixed metallic BaMX_0.2O_3-d(M=Co, Fe, Mn – X=F, Cl)hexagonal perovskites: Drastic effect of anionic and/or cationic substitutions on structural and electronic features"
- Marie Guignard, ICMCB Univ. of Bordeaux 1 (France)
"The Na_xVO₂ systems: from the batteries to electron correlated materials"
- Peter Blaha,Technical Univ. of Vienna (Austria)
"Interpretation of NMR and XAS spectroscopies by ab initio calculations"
- Laurent Cario, Univ. of Nantes (France)
"Metal insulator transitions in correlated chalcogenides having a clustered lacunar spinel structure"