ICESS-16
16th International Conference on Electronic Spectroscopy and Structure
Berkeley, California, USA, July 20th–July 25th 2025
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Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Calendar View
Sunday 7/20
04:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Welcome/Registration/Reception
Monday 7/21
08:15 AM - 08:30 AM
Welcome Remarks - E. Rotenberg
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Plenary Talks
Location: Island
08:30 AM - 09:15 AM
Galli, G.
(University of Chicago)
Recent progress in predicting the optical properties of defective and disordered systems
09:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Winter, B.
(Fritz-Haber-Institut)
Liquid-jet photoelectron spectroscopy of aqueous solutions: Electron scattering, electronic structure and work functions
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Correlation/ Heavy Fermions
Location: Island
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Vishik, I. (Invited)
(University of California, Davis)
Photoemission spectromicroscopy: correlating local chemistry and electronic structure in quantum materials
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Abbamonte, P. (Invited)
(University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign)
Conformally invariant charge fluctuations in a strange metal
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Denlinger, J. D.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Temperature dependent crossover behaviors in photoemission of strongly correlated f- and d-electron systems
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Regmi, S.
(Idaho National Laboratory)
Electronic structure study of a uranium-based material using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
Interfaces: Structure & Chemistry
Location: California
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Gilbert, P. U. (Invited)
(UW-Madison)
Evolution of enamel nanocrystal misorientation before and after diet changes
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Liu, Z. (Invited)
Title not available
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Tomanik, L.
(University of Chemistry and Technology)
Chemical shifts in photoelectron spectroscopy of liquids
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Carniato, S.
(sorbonne université, Paris)
Fingerprint of the dipole orientation of water molecules in Cu2+ aqueous solution probed by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
12:10 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Correlated Materials I
Location: Island
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Zhou, K. (Invited)
Title not available
02:30 PM - 02:50 PM
Fan, S.
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Polaronic state across the photoinduced transition in a magnetoresistive manganite
02:50 PM - 03:10 PM
Horio, M.
(The University of Tokyo)
Enhanced superconducting gap in the Hg-based trilayer cuprate superconductor revealed by micro-spot ARPES
03:10 PM - 03:30 PM
Xu, K.
(University of California, Berkeley)
Anomalous normal state gap in an underdoped n-type cuprate
Interfacial Energy and Charge Transfer
Location: California
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Roth, F. (Invited)
(TU Bergakademie Freiberg)
Capturing Electrons in Motion: Time-Resolved X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy for Unraveling Charge Transfer Dynamics
02:30 PM - 02:50 PM
Vannucchi, N.
(Uppsala University / Sorbonne University)
The impact of the oxide transport layer on the energy band alignment of the frontier orbitals in non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells
02:50 PM - 03:10 PM
Lindblad, A.
(Uppsala University)
Hard X-ray Core-hole Clock Spectroscopy of Adsorbates and Polymer Mixtures
03:10 PM - 03:30 PM
Bandaranayake, S.
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Unraveling charge and energy transfer dynamics between plasmonic matels and adsorbates
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Break
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Correlated Materials II
Location: Island
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Damascelli, A. (Invited)
(University of British Columbia)
Universal electronic structure of layered nickelates via oxygen-centered planar orbitals
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Miao, H. (Invited)
Title not available
05:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Chu, M.
(National Taiwan University)
The Growing Charge-Density-Wave Order in CuTe Lightens and Speeds up Electrons
05:20 PM - 05:40 PM
Ideura, K.
(Hiroshima University)
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Dirac nodal-line superconductor ZrSi$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$Se
05:40 PM - 06:00 PM
Blyth, J.
(Monash University)
Three-dimensional flat band in ultra-thin Kagome metal, Mn3Sn
Interface Dynamics and Chemistry
Location: California
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Buttersack, T. (Invited)
(Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society)
Monitoring Uptake, Release and Reaction of Gases at the Liquid-Vapor Interface
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Dupuy, R. (Invited)
Title not available
05:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Perco, D.
(University of Trieste)
Limitations in Determining Oxidation States in Condensed Matter at the Sub-Nanometric Scale
05:20 PM - 05:40 PM
Mora Perez, C.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Tuning Au–TiO2 Photocatalytic Interfaces: Impact of Oxygen Vacancies and Gold Nanoparticle Size on Electronic Structure and Carrier Dynamics
05:40 PM - 06:00 PM
Ehm, A.
(Chemnitz University of Technology)
Electronic Properties of Discrete NDI-T2 Oligomer Thin Films Using Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Low-energy Inverse Photoemission Spectroscopy
Tuesday 7/22
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Plenary Talks
Location: Island
08:30 AM - 09:15 AM
Rolles, D.
(Kansas State University)
Gas-phase photochemistry studied by time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy with free-electron lasers
09:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Maiti, K.
Title not available
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Novel Electronic Phenomena
Location: Island
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Bansil, A. (Invited)
(Northeastern University)
Recent surprises in quantum materials among many legacies of Einstein
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Zonno, M. (Invited)
Title not available
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Akiyama, R.
(Institute of Science Tokyo)
Interface-induced Weak Ferromagnetism in Altermagnetic MnTe Thin Films
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Dale, N.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Nonrelativistic spin-splitting above and below the Fermi level in a g-wave altermagnet
X-ray Multiple Ionization and Nonlinear Spectroscopy
Location: California
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Feifel, R. (Invited)
(University of Gothenburg)
Symmetry breaking in core-valence double ionization of allene
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Bergmann, U. (Invited)
(University of Milwaukee-Madison)
Title not available
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Doumy, G.
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Nonlinear resonant core-excitations in molecules
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Nam, Y.
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Probing Molecular Chirality with Nonlinear X-ray Spectroscopies
12:10 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Spin and Orbital Textures
Location: Island
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Plucinski, L. (Invited)
(Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Exploring Approaches to Probe Full Electronic Wave Functions in Solids via Photoemission
02:30 PM - 02:50 PM
Suen, C.
(Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, University of British Columbia (Quantum Matter Institute))
Observing the electronic response of a Mott insulator at a current-induced insulator-to-metal transition with transport-ARPES
02:50 PM - 03:10 PM
Donath, M.
(University of Muenster)
The puzzling case of Pt(111): Spin texture of the prototypical L-gap surface state
03:10 PM - 03:30 PM
Schusser, J.
(University of West Bohemia in Pilsen)
Assessing nontrivial topology in Weyl semimetals by dichroic photoemission
Spin and Magnetism
Location: California
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Moser, S. (Invited)
(Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
The Dirac Semimetal RuO2 - From Topology to Functionality
02:30 PM - 02:50 PM
Shen, L.
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Dispersion of Spin Stripe Fluctuations in FeGd Measured by Megahertz X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
02:50 PM - 03:10 PM
Klewe, C.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Depth-Resolved Profile of the Interfacial Ferromagnetism in CaMnO3/CaRuO3 Superlattices
03:10 PM - 03:30 PM
Pathiraja, C. S.
(University of Houston)
Spin-flip Determination in CrX3 (X = Cl, Br, and I) 2D Magnets using High-resolution X-ray Scattering
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Break
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Inelastic/Elastic Scat-tering Spectroscopy
Location: Island
04:00 PM - 04:20 PM
Rosa, F.
(Politecnico di Milano)
Tridimensional magnetism in Superconducting Infinite-Layer PrNiO2 studied with Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
04:20 PM - 04:40 PM
Wansorra, C.
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
Electronic Structure of LaxSr1−xFeO3−δ Probed by X-ray Absorption and Resonant Inelastic Soft X-ray Scattering
04:40 PM - 05:00 PM
Lee, G.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
A Precise Understanding of the Cathode Redox Mechanism in Commercial Lithium-Ion Batteries Through RIXS/sXAS Analysis
2D Magnetism
Location: California
04:00 PM - 04:20 PM
Mcchesney, J. L.
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Proximity-Induced Long-Range Magnetism in Ultra-High Conductivity PdCoO2
04:20 PM - 04:40 PM
He, W.
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Dispersive Hund’s Excitons in Magnetic van der Waals Materials
04:40 PM - 05:00 PM
Guo, Y.
(Rice University)
Van Hove Singularities Induced Large Electron-boson Coupling in Cr2Ge2Te6
05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Poster Session I with Casual Dinner
Wednesday 7/23
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Plenary Talks
Location: Island
08:30 AM - 09:15 AM
Matsuda, I.
(Institute for Solid State Physics)
The rise of nonlinear X-ray spectroscopy
09:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Wörner, H.
Title not available
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Surfaces and Interfaces
Location: Island
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Regoutz, A. (Invited)
Title not available
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Kim, C. (Invited)
Title not available
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Montero, I.
(CSIC. Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid)
Low Secondary Electron Emission 2D Materials for Space Electronics Applications
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Ha, Y.
(Lawrence Berkeley Lab)
Soft X-ray Spectroscopy as a Neat Tool to Assign Electronic Structures of {FeNO} Complexes
Attosecond and Femtosecond Molecular Dynamics
Location: California
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Cryan, J. (Invited)
Title not available
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Ramasesha, K. (Invited)
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Discovery of New Excited State Pathways in Transition Metal Carbonyls using Ultrafast Core-Level Spectroscopy
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Chuan, C.
(Stanford University)
Probing H₂⁺ Formation in Strong-Field Ionization of Water Using Pump-Probe Spectroscopy and Covariance Mapping
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Kumar, S.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Intramolecular particle exchange in the fragmentation of methanol upon valence photo double ionization
12:10 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Surfaces and Interfaces
Location: Island
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Toyoshima, R. (Invited)
(The University of Tokyo)
Operando Spectroscopic View for Thin Film Gas Sensors
02:30 PM - 02:50 PM
Omondi, C. A.
(Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology)
Impact of 3D/2D Composition Ratios on the Crystallinity, Optical Properties, and Stability of Hybrid Perovskite Films via GIWAXS and Spectroscopic Measurements.
02:50 PM - 03:10 PM
Shatsala, M. E.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Real-Time Insights into Perovskite Evolution: In Situ GIWAXS and Optoelectronic Studies of PEACl-PPF Co-Passivated Cs0.1FA0.9PbI3 Thin Film Growth
03:10 PM - 03:30 PM
Takahiro, I.
(NUSR/Nagoya University)
Electronic Structure of Solid Electrolyte Li6.5La3Zr1.5Ta0.5O12 Bulk Single Crystal Studied by Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
Fundamental Electronic Structures and Ionization Dynamics
Location: California
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Bharti, D. (Invited)
(Max Plank Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)
Interferometric Probing of Photoionization Dynamics and Resonant Control of Photoemission Delays
02:30 PM - 02:50 PM
Schweikhard, L.
(University of Greifswald)
Highly-sensitive negative ion spectroscopy in an electrostatic ion beam trap
02:50 PM - 03:10 PM
Bowlan, P.
(Los Alamos National Lab)
Molecular fingerprinting of f-electron molecules using a soft x-ray, HHG light Source
03:10 PM - 03:30 PM
Duraisamy Suganthi, M.
(Rice University)
Characterization of 4f^13 (2F(5/2)) 5d6s(1D) 1[5/2](5/2) state for Metastable Qubit Operations in Yb+ ions
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Break
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Surfaces and Interfaces
Location: Island
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Foehlisch, A. (Invited)
(Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin)
Activation Mechanisms of layered MoS2 Surfaces probed by time-based and time-resolved Electron Spectroscopy
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
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05:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Im, H.
(Pusan National University)
Interfacial interaction between TaSe2 and bilayer graphene
05:20 PM - 05:40 PM
Taylor, N. K.
(Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advanced Light Source (ALS))
Synthesis and Electronic Characterization of Nd$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$NiO$_4$ thin films ($0 \leq x \leq 1.4)$
05:40 PM - 06:00 PM
Jose, A.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Magnetic Spectroscopy Across Scales: Investigating Biological Energy Systems and Synthetic Magnetic Architectures
Fundamental Dynamics of Photocatalysis
Location: California
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Techert, S. (Invited)
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Temporal Electronic and Structural Landscapes in Catalytic Water-Splitting
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Ingle, R. (Invited)
Title not available
05:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Donnellan, Z.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & UC Berkeley)
Ultrafast Charge Transfer Dynamics in a Plasmonic Photocatalyst Studied by Femtosecond Time-Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
05:20 PM - 05:40 PM
Sahel-schackis, S.
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Investigation of the effects of nanoscale facets on catalytic activity in photo-driven nanosystems
05:40 PM - 06:00 PM
Lim, J. W.
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Anisotropic Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics Observed in Bulk ReS2 Using Femtosecond Time- and Energy-Resolved Photoemission Electron Microscopy
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Free Time
07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Banquet Dinner
Thursday 7/24
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Plenary Talks
Location: Island
08:30 AM - 09:15 AM
Prisle, N. L.
(University of Oulu)
Shifted protonation equilibrium of atmospheric acids and bases at the aqueous surface and impacts on cloud droplet chemistry and climate effects
09:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Kim, K.
Title not available
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Ambient Pressure Spectroscopy
Location: Island
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Boscoboinik, J. A. (Invited)
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Studying Nobles Gases with Photoelectron Spectroscopy
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Waluyo, I. (Invited)
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Revealing The Dynamic Surface State of Cu-based Single-Atom Alloys Using Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Guo, J.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Probing electrochemical interfaces and solvation in calcium-ion battery using operando soft X-ray spectroscopy
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Weinhardt, L.
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
Local and Symmetry-Resolved Electronic Structure of Liquid Dimethyl Sulfoxide from Resonant Inelastic Soft X‐ray Scattering
Electronic Control in 2D Materials
Location: California
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
King, P. (Invited)
(University of St Andrews)
Insensitivity of charge ordering instability to screening in the excitonic insulator candidate TiSe2
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Gedik, N. (Invited)
Title not available
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Allison, T. K.
(Stony Brook University)
Ultrafast dynamics in 2D materials and heterostructures visualized with time- and angleresolved photoemission
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Kundu, A. K.
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Coexistence of Dirac and flat bands in 2D material beyond geometrical frustrated lattice
12:10 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ambient Pressure Spectroscopy
Location: Island
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Eren, B. (Invited)
(WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE)
SIMULTENOUS ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY AND X-RAY SCATTERING ON MODEL CERIA CATALYSTS
02:30 PM - 02:50 PM
Anderson, S. R.
(University of Wisconsin - Madison / Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Inherent Co-ion Influence on Electric Double Layer Structure and Electrochemical Reactivity in the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
02:50 PM - 03:10 PM
Weng, Y.
(Uppsala University)
Operando HAXPES Study of Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation in Anode-Free Solid-State Batteries with PEO:LiDFOB
03:10 PM - 03:30 PM
Paudel, J. R.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
In Situ and Operando Characterization of Electronic and Chemical States of WO₃ During Electrochemical Proton Intercalation.
2D Systems: Chirality & Spin Order
Location: California
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Katoch, J. (Invited)
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Inoperando nanoARPES on van der Waals heterostructures
02:30 PM - 02:50 PM
Nishino, F.
(Institute for molecular science)
Observation of the effect of surface chirality induced by chiral molecular overlayer on achiral substrates
02:50 PM - 03:10 PM
Panaccione, G.
(NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (CNR) ITALY)
Depth-dependent magnetic properties in the ferromagnetic van der Waals semiconductor VI3
03:10 PM - 03:30 PM
Ekahana, S.
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Flattened Band and AA+AB on bilayer graphene heterostructure
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Break
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ambient Pressure Spectroscopy
Location: Island
04:00 PM - 04:20 PM
Jaugstetter, M.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Insitu photoelectron spectroscopy reveals the structure of the electrical double layer
04:20 PM - 04:40 PM
Zhou, Q.
(Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max Planck Gesellschaft)
Liquid-jet Velocity Map Imaging
04:40 PM - 05:00 PM
Huttula, M.
(University of OUlu)
Scaling research: From photoelectron-ion coincidences to photocatalytic solar hydrogen production
Electronic States at Buried Interfaces
Location: California
04:00 PM - 04:20 PM
Ueda, S.
(National Institute for Materials Science)
Interface electronic and magnetic states and band dispersion of insulator/ferromagnet heterostructures studied by hard x-ray angle-integrated and angle-resolved photoemission
04:20 PM - 04:40 PM
Middey, S.
(Indian Institute of Science)
Site-selective polar compensation of Mott electrons in a double perovskite heterointerface
04:40 PM - 05:00 PM
Choi, B.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Direct Observation of a Thickness-Induced Mott Transition in LaTiO3 films
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Photoemission Microscopy
Location: Island
05:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Aashwin, A.
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
nanoXPEEM: Attention Based Nanoscale X-ray Photoemission Electron Microscopy
05:20 PM - 05:40 PM
Sadowski, J. T.
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Spectro-microscopy of surface magnetization in Fe3GeTe2
05:40 PM - 06:00 PM
Achinuq, B.
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
An XPEEM Study of Voltage-induced Magnetic Domain Separation in a La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 Thin Film
Crystalline Electronic Structure
Location: California
05:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Fukutani, K.
(Institute for Molecular Science)
Translational symmetry-breaking in the quasiparticle band structure of organic semiconductor rubrene
05:20 PM - 05:40 PM
Fukushima, Y.
(Science Tokyo)
Observation of surface-state transport by Mn doping into a topological crystalline insulator SnTe thin film with strain
05:40 PM - 06:00 PM
Cao, Y.
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Unveiling a Unified Mechanism for Single-Photon Emission Across the III-Nitride
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Poster Session II with Casual Dinner
Friday 7/25
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Plenary Talks
Location: Island
08:30 AM - 09:15 AM
Yi, M.
Title not available
09:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Reutzel, M.
(Georg August Universität Göttingen)
Excitons in space and time - a femtosecond momentum microscopy study
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Theory
Location: Island
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Minár, J. (Invited)
(University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czechia)
Quantum Materials and Magnetic Phenomena Studied by Spin-Resolved ARPES: Theoretical perspectives
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Zhang, T. (Invited)
(Institute of Theoretical Physics(ITP, CAS))
Topological and chiral phonons: theory, prediction and detection
Electronic Spectromicroscopy
Location: California
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Chen, Y. (Invited)
(University of Oxford)
Strong Inter-valley Electron-Phonon Coupling in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Jozwiak, C. (Invited)
(Advanced Light Source)
Tipping the length scale with ARPES
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Break
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
break
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Poster Prize / Announcements / Closing Remarks
12:30 PM - 02:30 PM
SSRL Tour (Proposed)