Saeed Alhassan, Khalifa UST, Abu Dhabi Nuria Aliaga, ICMAB Barcelona, Spain Yasser Alwahedi, Khalifa UST, Abu Dhabi Thanasis Boudalis, Strasbourg, France Nikolaos Boukos, Demokritos, Greece Mario Chiesa, Torino, Italy George Christou, Florida, USA Peter Comba, Heidelberg, Germany Ed Constable, Basel, Switzerland Serena Corr, Glasgow, UK *Sayak Das Gupta, Florida, USA Gemma-Louise Davies, UCL, UK *Despoina Dermitzaki, Demokritos, Greece Jani Dolinsek, JSI Ljubljana, Slovenia Mohamed Eddaoudi, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Michael Fardis, Demokritos, Greece Natia Frank, Victoria, Canada *Totan Ghosh, Technion, Israel *Naama Gluz, Technion, Israel Dimitris Gournis, Ioannina, Greece Malcolm Halcrow, Leeds, UK *Ashlyn Hale, Florida, USA Steve Hill, NHMFL, USA Catherine Housecroft, Basel, Switzerland Jae Hyuck Jang, KBSI, Korea Stefan Jurga, Poznan, Poland Michael Karakasides, Ioannina, Greece Piotr Kaszynski, Lodz, Poland Chris Kay, LCN, UK Vassilis Kilikoglou, Demokritos, Greece Hae Jin Kim, KBSI, South Korea *Mitja Krnel, Josef Stefan, Slovenia S. Vijay Kumar, Khalifa UST, Abu Dhabi Kyle Lancaster, Cornell, USA Richard Layfield, Sussex, UK Eduardo Libby, Costa Rica, Costa Rica Jim McCusker, Michigan State, USA Shenqian Ma, South Florida, USA George Mitrikas, Demokritos, Greece Grace Morgan, UCD, Ireland *Ioannis Mylonas-Margaritis, NUI Galway, Ireland Jan Musfeldt, Tennessee, USA Graham Newton, Nottingham, UK Sokrates Pantelides, Vanderbilt, USA Constantina Papatriantafyllopoulou, NUI Galway, Ireland Georgios Papavassiliou, Demokritos, Greece Kaspar Pedersen, DTU, Denmark Juan Peralta, Central Michigan, USA Spyros Perlepes, Patras, Greece Stergios Piligkos, Copenhagen, Denmark Michael Pissas, Demokritos, Greece Kathryn Preuss, Guelph, Canada Vassilis Psycharis, Demokritos, Greece Katerina Raptopoulou, Demokritos, Greece *Brad Russell-Webster, Florida, USA Yiannis Sanakis, Demokritos, Greece Hannah Shafaat, Ohio State, USA Mike Shatruk, Florida State, USA Monica Soler, Santiago, Chile Kyriakos Stylianou, EPFL, Switzerland Jacek Szczytko, Warsaw, Poland Anastasios Tasiopoulos, Nicosia, Cyprus Georgia Zachariou, Demokritos, Greece Jeff Zaleski, Indiana, USA
*indicates junior speakers (from outside Greece and Cyprus)
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Venue
The NAGC 2018 meeting will be held on June 18-22, 2018, in Sparta, Greece. The venue will be the Mystras Grand Palace Resort & Spa just outside Sparta and close to the Byzantine city of Mystras.
The NAGC Workshops are held every two years, alternating between Cyprus and Greece. We shall once again be organizing a broad program that will bring together a wide range of researchers working in diverse fields and applications who would not normally attend the same meeting. The program will span chemistry, physics, and materials science – both experimentalists and theorists, junior and senior – and will encompass any kind of study on any kind of system involving unpaired electrons – but the latter does not have to be a focus of the talk: molecular or non-molecular materials; organic, inorganic, or biochemical; ground state or excited state; solid, liquid, or gas. In fact, some talks involve no unpaired electrons at all, and that is okay too.
For maximum benefit to everyone, it is hoped that senior speakers will present talks that have a tutorial component to them, perhaps 20{155f4b8acca879538be9a8bbf21a2c09d5f431bea234a7a43eaba3c685ec2640} or so of the allocated time, with the rest on research results. We are also hoping to have many students and postdocs attend, and will try to ensure that as many as possible are included on the program.
The event will begin with a welcoming reception in the evening of June 17, 2018. The talks will begin in the morning of June 18. The talks will be 30 mins (15 mins for students), and there will be no parallel sessions or plenary lectures.
The lecture facilities and some workshop accommodation will be at the newly-built Mystras Grand Palace Resort & Spa on the outskirts of Sparta and not far from the ancient town of Mystras, a byzantine archeological area that is a UNESCO World Heritage Center. We have negotiated a rate of 120 and 140 euros for single and double rooms, respectively, including a full Mediterranean buffet breakfast. Alternative hotel accommodations are available 2-3 km away in nearby Sparta and Mystra – more details about these will be posted soon as they become available.
