Conferences

Periodic conferences:

International Workshops on Surface Physics (IWSP)

The International Workshops on Surface Physics (IWSP) were started in 2003. They are intended to continue the tradition of the International Seminar on Surface Physics organized by the Institute of Experimental Physics of the University of Wrocław since 1976. The conference was decided to switch to a workshop form. The subject of each workshop concerns important, cutting-edge topics in surface science. The program of the workshop is built around several invited talks presented by the world’s leading scientists, and prepared for the sake of graduate students and young researchers. The goal of the workshop is to enable the review and discussion of the current state of research in the field and to show perspectives and the most probable paths of progress in the area of interest. The informal atmosphere of the meeting allows all participants to contribute to stimulating and fruitful discussions and exchange of ideas during and after oral and poster presentations. The number of lectures is planned to be between ten and fifteen.

Forthcoming Workshop:

IWSP-2024

Previous Workshops:

Wrocław-Bonn – Workshop on Applied Surface Science

The aim of the Wroclaw-Bonn Workshop on Applied Surface Science was to develop a closer cooperation between the Electron Spectroscopy, and Surface Theory groups of the Institute of Experimental Physics of the University of Wrocław and those of the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn as well as to determine common goals in the research area of joint interest. The idea to organize such meetings appeared at the end of AvH fellowship of Dr. Aleksander Krupski (in the period 2003-2005) in the research group of Professor Dr. Klaus Wandelt at the Bonn University. Wrocław-Bonn Workshop on Surface Physics and Chemistry take place alternately in Wrocław and in Bonn. These events are intended to offer a unique opportunity for young scientists, postgraduate and undergraduate students from both Institutes to give a talk on their research topics and results for an international audience. During the 1st Workshop 2006 a bilateral agreement was signed between the University of Wrocław and the University of Bonn regarding student exchange within LLP ERASMUS programs.

3rd Wrocław Bonn Workshop 2010

Previous Workshops

Seminar on Positron Annihilation

The Seminar on Positron Annihilation (SPA) (former The Polish Seminar on Positron Annihilation) has been organized since 1966, Professor Jan Wesołowski initiated it. Professor Bronisław Rozenfeld was the next Scientific Director and since 1990 Professor Marian Szuszkiewicz has been the one. Since 1995 the Institute of Experimental Physics has been co-operating with the scientists from the Opole University (Institute of Physics) in organization of SPA From the very beginning scientists, both from Poland and the whole world, took part in it. From the mid-1980s, the every second year the SPA is organized with participation of foreigners. The subject of the conference includes both theoretical and experimental questions, concerning with positron annihilation phenomenon and its use to study matter. Physicists, chemists, geologists and technologists present the latest achievements of studies of matter obtained by use of methods of the positron annihilation spectroscopy. The scientific program of the Seminar includes: fundamental aspects of positron and positronium physics and chemistry, studies of electronic structure, phase transitions and defects in metals, alloys, semiconductors, superconductors and polymers, surface studies, slow positron beam technique, the development of experimental and data processing techniques, applications. The SPA is one of well recognized conferences devoted to positron annihilation. Its high scientific level is appreciated very much by people from the whole world involved in positron annihilation studies. The number of foreigners attending it is going up continuously. In 1996 more than one half of participants came from abroad. Outstanding persons took part in the conference, in the past: Prof. S. Berko (USA), Prof. K. Fujiwara (Japan), Prof. A. Dupasquier (Italy), Prof. R. West (USA), Prof. W. Triftshäuser (Germany), Prof. A. Hrynkiewicz (Poland), Prof. V.I. Goldanski (Russia), Prof. P.E. Mijnarends (Holland) and many others. Proceedings of the conference are published as special volumes of Acta Physica Polonica A (in 1997, as a special issue of Nukleonika).

School of Ferroelectrics Physics

The School of Ferroelectrics Physics is organized practically every year by the Department of Dielectrics Physics of the Institute of Experimental Physics of Wrocław University. The School is devoted to contemporary problems of ferroelectrics physics, phase transitions and related phenomena in crystals and ceramics. The School is related to experimental studies, theoretical aspects and application of ferroelectric materials in technology. Well known specialists in this field both from Poland and other countries are invited speakers to the School. Usually the School is organized in conference centers in Sudeten Mountains.

Autumn School Physics Didactics Problems

23rd Autumn School Physics Didactics Problems

The 23rd Autumn School is held simultaneously with the 1st Congress of Physics Teachers. During the registration process it is necessary to formally declare participation in one of those events, but each participant of the School and the Congress will be able to attend any concurrent session of choice. Detailed information about individual events will be provided in the Schedule tab soon. We are hoping that this way both the School and the Congress will gain traction. The formal evening session will be common.

Autumn Schools “Physics Didactics Problems” have been organized for 43 years now. They were founded by the community of physics teachers in Wrocław, in consultation with leading centres of physics didactics in Poland, in order to improve the process of learning and teaching physics. From the very beginning the aim of the School was to establish a forum where academic physics educators, physics teachers, and methodological advisors could exchange experiences and present research results. Physics educators and academic physicists would adjust approaches to teaching, created new curricula, interpretation of difficult problems in physics. Teachers expanded their knowledge of physics, perfected skills, and verified proposals of new solutions in practical context. Everyone had the opportunity for partnership discussions. Schedules of PDP Schools mirrored the problems troubling school and academic environments.

Scientific and methodological achievements of the Autumn Schools are presented in the “Physics didactics problems” books.

The first Autumn School Physics Didactics Problems was organized in 1975 as a result of co-operation of the Institute of Experimental Physics and Wroclaw section of Institute of Teachers Training. The meeting was devoted to the review of the outputs of the physicists working on physics teaching in Poland and abroad. Thanks to the participation of academic workers and regional institutions of teachers training, physics teachers from different schools and foreign guests the Schools have become forums integrating different groups working on physics didactics. The first School was attended by physicists from Brno, Prague, Leipzig and Tartu. From that time the co-operation with foreign centres has been extended and some outstanding lecturers were the guests of the conference (E.M.Rogers, J.Ogborn, and others). The individual Schools concentrate on different detailed issues of didactics. In previous years the Schools were very often the only source of information for teachers in Poland about the works of physics teaching in the world. The participation of prof. Grzegorz Białkowski in II Autumn School (in 1977) had initiated his close co-operation with Wroclaw physics teaching society in scientific activity and education and training of active teachers. The co-operation had been interrupted by untimely death of prof. Białkowski.

The initiator and the scientific leader of the first nine schools was doc. dr Ignacy Stępniowski and since X School scientific charge has been hold by prof. dr hab. Wacław Świątkowski. Since IX School, OSI CompuTrain in Jelenia Góra has been the co-organiser of the meetings. The number of the School participants is about 120. The proceedings from the I, II, VIII and IX Schools were published.

Past conferences:

Symposium In Honor of Ernst Bauer

Symposium

In recognition of his merits to the community of physicists of the University of Wrocław, and fundamental achievements in surface science, the Senate of the University of Wrocław decided to confer the title of the Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Wrocław on Professor Ernst Bauer, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of the Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. The conferring of the title took place in the Aula Leopoldina during the ceremonial inauguration of the academic year 2014/2015 on October 1, 2014.

A day before this event the Institute of Experimental Physics organized a scientific Symposium in Honor of Ernst Bauer where several talks were given to discuss state of the art research in areas close to the work of the distinguished scholar.

Biographical sketch

Professor Ernst Bauer is a distinguished German-American physicist, one of the founders of surface physics and the physics of thin films. He received his MS (1953) and PhD (1955), both in physics, from Munich University, Germany. In 1958 he moved to the Michelson Laboratory in China Lake, California, where he became Head of the Crystal Physics Branch and U.S. citizen. In 1969 he accepted the position of Professor and Director of the Physics Institute at the Technical University Clausthal in Germany. In 1991 he was appointed Distinguished Research Professor at the Arizona State University, in addition to his full-time duty in Germany. Since 1996 he is full-time at the Arizona State University. Since 2010 he is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus still working full-time in ASU.

Professor Bauer’s work directly or indirectly impacts many areas of modern materials science: surfaces, thin films, electronic materials, and instrumentation. In 1958 he derived the classification of the thin film growth mechanisms, which he called Volmer-Weber, Stranski-Krastanov and Frank-van der Merwe mechanisms. This provided the theoretical thermodynamic framework of epitaxy which is used worldwide to understand epitaxy to this day. In 1962 he invented LEEM (Low Energy Electron Microscopy), which came to fruition in 1985. In the late eighties/early nineties he extended the LEEM technique in two important directions by developing two new surface microscopy methods: Spin-Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy (SPLEEM) and Spectroscopic Photo Emission and Low Energy Electron Microscopy (SPELEEM). The invention and development of surface microscopy with slow electrons has revolutionized the study of surface science and thin film science. The combination of these methods now allows a comprehensive (structural, chemical, magnetic, electronic) characterization of surfaces and thin films on the 10 nm scale.

Ernst Bauer authored or co-authored more than 450 publications (among them 85 review papers and book chapters) and two books: “Electron Diffraction: Theory, Practice and Applications”, 1958 and “Surface Microscopy with Low Energy Electrons”, 2014.

He had longstanding scientific cooperation with NASA, Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Czech Republic. About 80 scientists had a possibility to perform high quality research in his group in Germany (53 of them from the European, at that time Soviet bloc countries). Initiated by collaboration with Wrocław, over the 1980s and 1990s, more than a dozen of young physicists from Poland had a possibility to carry out research in his lab by using modern scientific equipment unavailable in Poland. Presently he has collaborations with Japan, Poland, Italy, Germany and Hong Kong.

The scientific achievements of Ernst Bauer have been multiply honored. He was the recipient of the E.W. Muller Award in 1985, the Gaede Prize of the German Vacuum Society in 1988, the Medard W. Welch Award of the American Vacuum Society in 1992, the Niedersachsenpreis for Science (Germany) in 1994, the BESSY Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation in 2004 and the very prestigious Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society in 2005. In 2003 Ernst Bauer received the first Award of the Japan Society of Promotion of Science’s 141st Committee on Microbeam Analysis and was made an honorary member of this organization. He was elected a Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 1989, Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1991 and Fellow of the American Vacuum Society in 1994. In 2008 he was honored by a Humboldt Research Prize and Doctor Honoris Causa at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. In 2012 he was appointed Fellow of Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste.

Biographical sketch

Programme

Symposium in Honor of Ernst Bauer

Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Wrocław, Poland

September 30, 2014

9:00 – 9:05	Opening by vice-Rector of the University of Wrocław
9:05 – 9:10	Introduction – Marek Szymoński (Jagellonian University, Poland)
Session I (Chair: Adam Kiejna)
9:10 – 9:40	Michael S Altman (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Structure and defects in 2D layers studied by LEEM/μLEED: we stand on the shoulders of a Giant
9:40 – 10:10	Marek Szymoński (Jagellonian University, Poland) Computing with atoms, molecules, and dangling bonds at passivated semiconductor surfaces
10:10 – 10:40	Harald Ibach (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) Electron energy loss spectroscopy of spin waves in ultrathin films
10:40 – 11:10	Mieczysław Jałochowski (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland) Some peculiarities of Pb nanostructures on Si surfaces
11:10 – 11:40	Coffee break
Session II (Chair: Mieczysław Jałochowski)
11:40 – 12:10	Lothar Fritsche (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Excitations in Density Functional Theory
12:10 – 12:40	Takanori Koshikawa (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan) Magnetic property of Co/Ni multilayer with high brightness and high spin- polarized LEEM
12:40 – 13:10	Adam Kiejna (University of Wrocław, Poland) Theoretical studies of metal adsorption on iron oxide surfaces
13:10 – 13:25	Krzysztof Grzelakowski (OPTICON Nanotechnology, Poland) Energy-filtered K_\|\| and real, simultaneous imaging with Dual Emission Electron spectroMicroscope
14:00 – 15:00	Lunch
19:00	Concerto in Oratorium Marianum

Sponsors:	Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wrocław The Marshal Office of Lower Silesia Voivodeship OCI Vacuum Microengineering

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Symposium in Honor of Theodore E. Madey

Rektor i Senat Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
mają zaszczyt zaprosić na uroczystość nadania tytułu

Doktora Honoris Causa Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Profesorowi Theodore’owi Madeyowi (Uniwersytet Rutgers, USA)

Uroczystość odbędzie się dnia 10 marca 2004 r. o godz. 10:00
w Auli Leopoldyńskiej, Pl. Uniwersytecki 1.

Symposium in Honor of Theodore E. Madey
Institute of Experimental Physics University of Wrocław
March 9, 2004

Program

9:50 OPENING by Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

Session I Chairman Jerzy Czyżewski

10:00-10:45	Theodore Madey Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA	Nanometer-scale surface science: thermal and non-thermal processes.
10:45-11:45	John Yates Jr., Department of Chemistry and Physics Surface Science Center, University of Pittsburgh USA	Observing the Structure and Dynamical Behavior of Large, Chemisorbed Organic Molecules on Single Crystal Surfaces – Connections to Self Assembly
11:45-12:15	Marek Szymoński Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland	Chemical Sensing with Ultimate Resolution by Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy
12:30-13:30	LUNCH

Session II Chairman Ryszard Błaszczyszyn

13:30-14:00	Elsebeth Schröder Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, Sweden	Ultra-thin metal films and alloys on tungsten surfaces
14:00-14:30	Dieter Fick Marburg University and Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG Berlin, Germany	High temperature diffusion of Li adsorbates on Ru(0001)
14:30-15:00	Andrzej Szczepkowicz Institute of Experimental Physics University of Wrocław, Poland	From hill-and-valley faceting to global faceting of a crystal: oxygen-covered tungsten
15:00-15:30	COFFEE BREAK

Session III Chairman Stefan Mróz

15:30-16:00	Ryszard Duś Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland	Adsorption and desorption states of atomic deuterium on thin gold films
16:00-16:30	Per Hyldgaard Chalmers Chalmers University, of Technology and Göteborg University, Sweden	One-dimensional electron systems trapped on surfaces
16:30-17:00	Adam Kiejna Institute of Experimental Physics University of Wrocław, Poland	Energetics of Li and Sr adatom interactions on the Mo(112) surface
19:00	CONCERTO in Aula Leopoldina

Symposium In Honor of Ernst Bauer

International Seminar

International Seminars on Surface Physics (originally Seminars on Surface Physics) were organized in the years 1976-2000 following the initiative of Professor Zbigniew Sidorski (1925-1984), then the Director of the Institute of Experimental Physics of the University of Wrocław.

The Seminars were devoted to both experimental and theoretical investigations of atomic and electronic structure of solid surfaces. The topics of the Seminar included a broad area of surface processes and surface phenomena, experimental probes and techniques: adsorption and desorption phenomena, dynamics of molecule-surface interaction, surface reactions, diffusion and dynamics of surface atoms, nucleation and growth, segregation at alloys surfaces, collective excitations, charge transfer in atom-surface scattering, Auger electron spectroscopy, structural investigations of surfaces (cf. with photoelectron diffraction, scanning tunneling microscopy, spectroscopy of scattered ions), electronic structure of metallic surfaces, thin films and clusters.

Originally annual, from 1992, the Seminar was organized biannually in various resort places in Lower Silesia (Poland). The Seminars usually gathered 100-120 participants from many countries (including about 20-30 invited lecturers of internationally recognized reputation). The Seminar enabled the community of Polish surface scientists to initiate many fruitful collaborations with the leading scientific centers in the world. The Proceedings of the Seminar were published initially in Surface Research issue of Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis (AUW) and since 1987 as single issues of refereed international journals (Acta Physica Polonica, Surface Science, Progress in Surface Science, Vacuum).

A complete list of the Seminars on Surface Physics (1976 – 2000)

1st Seminar on Surface Physics, Łagów, June 1976, Director: Z. Sidorski.
Proceedings: Surface Research, AUW, Nr 380, Wrocław 1977,
Editor: R. Męclewski.
2nd Seminar on Surface Physics, Trzebieszowice 1977, Director: Z. Sidorski.
Proceedings: Surface Research, AUW, Nr 439, Wrocław 1978,
Editor: R. Męclewski.
3rd Seminar on Surface Physics, Kudowa 1978, Director: R. Męclewski.
Proceedings: Surface Research, AUW, Nr 471, Wrocław 1979,
Editors: R. Męclewski and K. Sendecka.
5th Seminar on Surface Physics, Karpacz 1980, Director: S. Mróz.
Proceedings: Surface Research, AUW, Nr 607, Wrocław 1981,
Editors:. R. Męclewski and K. Sendecka.
6th Seminar on Surface Physics, Karpacz 1981, Director: M. Stęślicka.
Proceedings: Surface Research, AUW, Nr 455, Wrocław 1983,
Editors: M. Stęślicka, R. Męclewski and K. Sendecka.
7th Seminar on Surface Physics, Karpacz 1983, Director: Z. Sidorski.
Proceedings: Surface Research, AUW, Nr 782, Wrocław 1984,
Editors: M. Stęślicka, R. Męclewski and K. Sendecka.
8th Seminar on Surface Physics, Karpacz 1984, Director: J. Czyżewski.
Proceedings: Surface Research, AUW, Nr 847, Wrocław 1985,
Editors: R. Męclewski and M. Stęślicka.
9th Seminar on Surface Physics, Piechowice 1985, Director: T. Lewowski.
Proceedings: Surface Research, AUW, Nr 937, Wrocław 1986,
Editors: W. Kisiel, R. Męclewski and M. Stęślicka.
10th Seminar on Surface Physics, Piechowice 1986, Director: T. Radoń.
Proceedings: Surface Research, AUW, Nr 1025, Wrocław 1988,
Editors: W. Kisiel, R. Męclewski and M. Stęślicka.
11th International Seminar on Surface Physics (ISSP), Piechowice, May 11-16, 1987, Director: M. Stęślickai.
Proceedings: Surface Science, 200, No. 2/3 (1988),
Guest Editors: M. Stęślicka, S. Mróz and W. Kisiel.
12th ISSP, Piechowice, Poland, 9-14 May 1988, Director: S. Mróz.
Proceedings: Surface Science, 213, No. 2/3 (1989),
Guest Editors: S. Mróz, W. Kisiel and M. Stęślicka.
13th ISSP, Piechowice, May 22-27, 1989, Director: R. Męclewski.
Proceedings: Surface Science, 231, No. 1/2 (1990),
Guest Editors: M. Steślicka, W. Kisiel and R. Męclewski.
14th ISSP, Przesieka, Poland, May 21-26, 1990, Director: M. Stęślicka.
Proceedings: Surface Science, 247, No. 2/3 (1991),
Guest Editors: M. Stęślicka, W. Kisiel and S. Mróz.
15th ISSP, Przesieka, 20-25.05.1991, Director: J.J. Czyżewski.
Proceedings: Acta Physica Polonica A 81, No. 1/2 (1992),
Guest Editors: J. Czyżewski, A. Kiejna and A. Ciszewski.
16th ISSP, Kudowa Zdrój, 5-10.10.1992, Director: M. Stęślicka.
Proceedings: Progress in Surface Science 42, No. 1/4 (1993), Vacuum 45, No. 2/3 (1994),
Guest Editors: M. Stęślicka and S. Mróz.
17th ISSP, 6-11.06.1994, Kudowa Zdrój, Director: R. Błaszczyszyn.
Proceedings: Progress in Surface Science 48, No. 1/4 (1995), Vacuum 46, No. 5/6 (1995),
Guest Editors: M. Stęślicka and R. Błaszczyszyn.
18th ISSP, Polanica Zdrój, 10-14.06.1996, Director: A. Kiejna.
Proceedings: Progress in Surface Science 53, No. 2/4 (1996), Vacuum 48, No. 3/4 (1997),
Guest Editors: M. Stęślicka and R. Błaszczyszyn.
19th ISSP, Polanica Zdrój, 15-19.06.1998, Director: A. Ciszewski.
Proceedings: Progress in Surface Science 59, No. 1-4 (1998), Vacuum 54, No. 1-4 (1999),
Guest Editors: M. Stęślicka, R. Kucharczyk and A. Ciszewski.
20th ISSP, Kudowa Zdrój, 19-24.06.2000, Director: M. Stęślicka.
Proceedings: Progress in Surface Science 67, No. 1/8 (2001), Vacuum 63, No 1/2 (2001),
Guest Editors: M. Stęślicka, R. Kucharczyk and R. Błaszczyszyn.