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COSY Meeting
5th Training Workshop and 6th Project Meeting

Date: May, 4 - 6, 2009
Location: EMPA Materials Sciences and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

Agenda as of April, 7, 2009

Monday, May, 4, 2009

7.00 p.m.

Get Together: Hotel Sonnental
Zürichstrasse 94/96, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
Tel. (+41) (44) 802 1282, Fax (+41) (44) - 821 4191
Contact: Beate Puff, Patrick Müller
email: sonnental@zuerich-hotels.ch
homepage: http://www.zuerich-hotels.ch/


Tuesday, May, 5, 2009
7.30 a.m. Breakfast (Hotel Sonnental)

Morning Session: COSY 6th Project Meeting
(COSY internal only)
Eawag Forum Chriesbach C20

9.00 a.m.

1. Welcome

Ruediger Bormann

9.10 a.m.

COSY Project Administration (2nd year report, prefinancing, ESR exchange / Redistribution of PM between COSY partners, Workshops, other)

Klaus Taube, Annina Trute
10.00 a.m. Coffee Break
Young researchers reports
10.30 a.m. 15 min talks + 10 min discussion
    3.1) Bulk Preparation

Claudio Pistidda, HZG
Christian Bonatto, HZG
Sebastiano Garroni, UAB
Abdel El-kharbachi, INPG
Moustafa Aljerf, INPG
Francesco Dolci, FZK
1.00 p.m. Lunch

Afternoon Session:
Young Researchers Reports
Eawag Forum Chriesbach C20
2.00 p.m.     3.2) Microstructural characterisation

Emilie Deprez, ICMSE
Christopher Nwakwuo, UOXF
    3.3) Thermodynamic& kinetic characterisation Daphiny Pottmaier, UNITO
3.20 p.m. Coffee Break
3.50 pm     3.3) Thermodynamic& kinetic characterisation Carine Rongeat, EMPA
    3.4) Atomic & electronic structure

Shunsuke Kato, EMPA
    3.5) Theory & modelling Deniz Cakir, UT
5.15 p.m.     4. HRTEM characterization of thin films Aline Rougier, LRCS
5.30 p.m. Walk to Train station Dübendorf ALL
6.04 p.m. Departure from Train station Dübendorf ALL
7.30 p.m. Dinner at Restaurant Uto Kulm ALL

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Wednesday, May, 6, 2009
7.30 a.m. Breakfast (Hotel Sonnental)
5th Training Workshop Part I
(open also for non-COSY-scientists and Industrial Advisory Board)
Complex reactions and their catalysis
Eawag Forum Chriesbach C20
09.00 a.m. Introduction to Concepts of Catalysis A. Borgschulte, Empa
10.00 a.m. Small scale hydrogen production and reforming kinetics P. Pfeiffer, FZK
10.45 p.m. Coffee Break

11.15 a.m.

Chemistry of Borohydrides

H. Noeth, LMU

12.00 a.m.

The Role of Additives in Magnesium Hydrides

G. Barkhordarian, HZG
12.45 a.m. Lunch
Afternoon Session: 5th Training Workshop Part II
Complex reactions and their catalysis
Eawag Forum Chriesbach C20

1.45 p.m.

Hydrogen Sorption mechanisms in AlH4, BH4 and NH2

Maximilian Fichtner, FZK
2.45 p.m. Understanding the role of Additives in sorption properties of RHC Ulrike Bösenberg, HZG
3.45 p.m. Coffee Break
4.00 p.m.  Use and Shortcomings of Catalysts in Hydrogen Technology Chris Nuttal
4.30 p.m. Final discussion Rüdiger Bormann/Klaus Taube

5.00 p.m. Opportunity for visit of Empa Labs
5.30 p.m.

End of the 5th Training Workshop