Welcome

With more than 7,000 expected participants the DPG Spring Meeting is the largest European physics conference (the second largest physics conference worldwide) covering all aspects of condensed matter and chemical physics, materials science, surface science, as well as polymer and biophysics, and more. For a few years now the conference language has been English.

You are invited to attend the DPG Spring Meeting from March 6-11, 2016 in Regensburg and in particular the above noted symposium which is organized by

Ingrid Mertig (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle), Giovanni Vignale (University of Missouri-Columbia), and Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin)

This is an official symposium at the DPG spring meeting, which is hosted by the surface science division, but topics of talks and posters are not restricted to surface science. There will be invited talks, contributed talks, and a poster session. We are grateful that the symposium is again hosted by the surface-science division. Please note that this hosting does NOT imply that talks need to be restricted to this scientific area.

Invited Speakers at the symposium include:
• Stefan Blügel (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
• Ewelina Hankiewicz (Universität Würzburg, Germany)
• Jürgen Henk (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Germany)
• Jelena Klinovaja (Universität Basel, Switzerland)
• Allan MacDonald (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• Shuichi Murakami (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Jairo Sinova (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany and Texas A&M University, USA)
• Ivo Souza (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain)
• Peizhe Tang (Stanford University)
• Binghai Yan (Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Dresden, Germany)

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