ANNUAL REPORT - MTA SzFKI

CONFERENCES
⎯ Electrochemistry seminar (Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 15-19, 2007). Within the
framework of a bilateral Science and Technology Collaboration project (Romania-
Hungary, TéT RO-22/05), L. Péter and I. Bakonyi organized a seminar on basic issues
of electrochemistry with particular reference to the electrodeposition of metals, alloys
and multilayers from aqueous solutions which is the main topic of the collaborative
bilateral project. Within the seminar program, L. Péter gave 8 tutorial lectures on
electrochemistry and elctrodeposition of metallic materials and I. Bakonyi gave one
lecture on atomistic aspects of nucleation and growth during deposition from solution
and from the vapour phase. Altogether about 10 scientists and students participated
⎯ Hungarian-Indian Bilateral Workshop on Condensed Matter Research: Magnetic
Materials (University of Hyderabad, India, Dec. 4, 2006). On the occasion of the Silver
Jubilee (25 years) of collaboration between HAS and INSA (Indian national Science
Academy), a one-day workshop was organized in Hyderabad by S.N. Kaul (University
of Hyderabad) and I. Bakonyi (RISSPO HAS). In the scientific program of the
workshop, 3 scientists of RISSPO HAS and 4 Indian scientists (two from Hyderabad
and two from other leading Indian research institutes) presented lectures on magnetic
and magnetotransport properties of materials which are in the forefront of current
research interest worldwide, including e.g., magnetic nanostructures. The workshop
was attended by some 50 scientists among them with a group of Ph.D. students from
all over India who participated in a usual annual lecture course series on solid state
physics in Hyderabad just that week. A poster session was also held during the
workshop.
⎯ The 4 th Central European Training School on Neutron Scattering (CETS’2007)
organized by the Neutron Spectroscopy Department was held in Budapest from April
23-28, 2007. The scope of this course was to provide insight into neutron scattering
techniques and their application for studies on structure and dynamics of condensed
matter. This training opportunity was offered to the European community with special
emphasis on the Central European region and with a special regard on neutron optics.
The 18 hours of lectures given by scientists from the leading European neutron centers
(ILL-Grenoble, HMI-Berlin, LLB-Saclay, JINR-Dubna, NPI-Prague, BNC-Budapest,
University of Vienna) gave an introduction on neutron scattering techniques; the
experiments on neutron spectrometers have demonstrated to the students the art of
utilization of instruments at a large scale facility. Experiments on the following
machines were performed: small-angle neutron scattering instrument, three-axis
spectrometer, neutron reflectometer (multilayer reflectivity), prompt-gamma activation
analysis, data imaging and analysis of anisotropic scattering spectra. The school
provided a forum for the presentation and discussion of actual research works of young
scientists in the course of a half-day program, which was devoted to a poster/short oral
presentation session. The participants (32 students) were young physicists, chemists,
biologists, and actual or potential neutron users from the different countries of Europe
(Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Russia,
Ukraine).
⎯ A joint Workshop on Neutron Instrumentation was held in on October 25-27 in
Budapest, devoted to the modernisation and instrument development programme of the
8 MW reactor of the Kurchatov Institute (Moscow). The meeting organized by the
Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics and the Russian Centre
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