
Among the speakers, Mas Subramanian, Oregon State University, USA on Functional transition Metal Oxides: trigonal bipyramidal versus octahedral coordination. Anke Wiedenkaff research coordinator for the Solid State Chemistry and Catalysis, and Materials for Energy Converter Technologies at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories talks on Functional perovskite type materials for energy technologies and Joachim Maier of Max Planck Institute, Germany on the Search for Materials and the Role of Size Effects.