Invited Talks at Conferences/Workshop

• May 14-17, 1995: V. European Conference on Surface Crystallography, Kloster Banz, Germany, New physics in alkali metal adsorption: surface alloy formation of immiscible constituents and condensation into islands
• June 19-23, 1995: Surface Science: Critical Review and Outlook, Hong Kong, Density functional theory of reactions at surfaces
•  January 10-12, 1996: Miniworkshop on Computational Condensed Matter Physics: Total Energy and Force Methods, Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, France, The Carbon Monoxide Oxidation Reaction at Ru(0001)
•  February 4-6, 1998: 22nd. Condensed Matter Physics Meeting, Wagga Wagga, Australia, Theoretical Study of Defects in III-V Nitrides
• June 3-4, 1998: Workshop Electronic Structure Calculations for Industry and Basic Sciences, Technical University
• Vienna, Austria, Why is the Chemical Reactivity of Ruthenium Special? An Analysis of the Catalytic CO Oxidation at Ru(0001)
• August 31-4 September, 1998: 14th International Vacuum Congress, 10th International Conference on Solid Surfaces, 5th International Conference on Nanometer-scale Science and Technology, and 10th International Conference on Quantitative Surface Analysis, Birmingham, UK, Density Functional Theory of the Catalytic Oxidation of CO at Transition Metal Surfaces
• January 15-17 1999:  International Workshop on Computational Condensed Matter Physics: Total Energy and Force Methods, Trieste, Italy, Towards a First-principles theory of surface thermodynamics
• March  1999: Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Münster, Germany, Challenges in predictive calculations of processes at surfaces: Surface thermodynamics and catalytic reactions
• May 17-19, 1999: Workshop on  Catalysis from First principles, Denmark, Towards a First-principles theory of surface thermodynamics and kinetics
• August 22-26, 2000: Psi-k Workshop, Scwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, Ab-initio modelling of temperature-programmed desorption of molecules from metallic surfaces
• August31-September 2, 2000: E.C.M. 19 - Satellite-Meeting: Surface CrystallographyNancy, France, First principles theory of surface thermodynamics
• August 20-24 2000: American Chemical Society: Symposium on Industrial Applications of Theoretical Chemistry,Washington, USA
• March 20-24, 2001: APS, American Physical Society Meeting, Seattle, U.S., First-principles Theory of Surface Thermodynamics
• July 23-August 1, 2001: Workshop on Application of Density-Functional Theory in Condensed Matter Physics, Surface Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Biology, Berlin, Germany, Adsorption at, desorption from, and chemical activity of metal surfaces
• February 21-23, 2002: Catalysis from First-principles, Vienna, Austria, The Role of the O-Ag Interaction in the Function of Silver as an Oxidation Catalyst
• June 18-21, 2002: The European Materials Research Society, Strasbourg, France, Why is a noble metal catalytically active? The role of the O-Ag interaction in the function of silver as an oxidation catalyst
• December, 2003: The Frontiers of Science and Technology Workshop on soft Condensed Matter and Nanoscale Physics, and the 13th Gordon Godfrey Workshop on recent Advances in condensed Matter Theory, Sydney, Australia, Surface science from first-principles: Present status and future directions
• June 30 - July 4: 2004: The 9th Molecular Modelling Workshop, Sydney, Australia, Understanding surface processes through first-principles based thermodynamics and statistics
• March 4-9: 2005: The 69th Conference of the German Physical Socielty, Berlin, Germany, Understanding surface phase transitons through first-principles based thermodynamics and statistics
• Dec. 2-6: 2006: New Zealand Institute of Chemistry: Back to Basics from Small Molecules to Materials and Surfaces, Rotorua, New Zealand.
• Dec. 3-8: 2006: Australian Institute of Physics Congress, Brisbane, Australia.
• Jan. 28-Feb.2: 2007: 22nd Royal Australian Chemical Institute Organic Conference and 6th Royal Australian Chemical Institute Conference on Physical Chemistry, Adelaide, Australia.
• Feb.6-9: 2007: 31st Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga, Australia.
• April: 2007: International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego, USA.
• July: 2007: The 17th International Vacuum Congress (IVC-17), 13th International Conference on Surface Science (ICSS-13), International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology 2007 (ICN+T 2007), 6th Nordic Conference on Surface Science (NCSS-6), 22nd Nordic Semiconductor Meeting (NSM-22) and 4th Swedish Vacuum and Materials Science Meeting (SVM-4) Stockholm, Sweden.
• July: 2007: International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Singapore.
• September: 2007: Nanostructures for Electronics Energy and Environment NanoE3 Couran Cove, 23-28 September 2007.
• April: 2008: 35th International Conference On Metallurgical Coatings And Thin Films San Diego, California, USA
• July: 2008: Workshop on Concepts and Strategies in Interphase Science Nova Scotia Canada.
• July: 2008: International Conference on Electronic Materials, Hilton Sydney, Sydney, Australia - 28th July to 1st August 2008.
• July 20-26, 2008: 16th International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
• September 23-27, 2008: Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry(TACC), Shanghai, China, September 23-27, 2008.
• September: 2008: Eighth triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, September 14, 2008.
• October 11-13 2008: International Conference titled Material Informatics and DFT Oran, Algeria. Plenary.
• December 1-5: 2008: Solid State Ionics Symposium, MRS Fall Meeting.
• September 9-11, 2009: Fifth Conference of the Asia Consortium for Computational Materials Science (ACCMS-5), Hanoi, Vietnam.
• July 9-11, 2009: 17th Annual International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering, ICCE-17, Hawaii, USA.
• August 13th-15th, 2009: Technical Meeting - Discovery in Basic Energy Sciences: The Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale, for the DOE/SC Offices of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (OASCR) and Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Washington, DC, USA.