Monday October 22

Intro and welcome

Karim Kadir and D. Noréus
"Recent developments of new metal hydrides and intermetallic compounds"

Hilde Grove, Sabrina Sartori, Magnus H. Sorby, Bjørn C. Hauback
"The decomposition of AlD3"

Gunnar K. Pálsson and Björgvin Hjörvarsson
"The influence of amorphous Al2O3 coating on hydrogen uptake of materials"

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Johannes Voss and Tejs Vegge
"DFT modeling of new borohydride structures"

Qing Shi and Tejs Vegge
"Hydrogen dynamics from quasi-elastic neutron scattering and DFT"

Martin Sahlberg and Yvonne Andersson
"Hydrogen absorption in YMgGa"

Stefano Deledda, Bjørn C. Hauback and Helmer Fjellvåg
"Ball Milling of Mg-Li-H Powders"

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Ana V. Borissova, Stafano Deledda and Bjørn C. Hauback
"Synthesis, characterization and hydrogen storage properties of Mg-Ti-Ni system, produced by different ball milling techniques"

Matylda Guzik, Klaus Yvon, Bjørn C. Hauback
"Study on ternary LaxMg2-xNi7 and its deuterides/hydrides"

Pavel Bessarab and Valery Uzdin
"Tuning of the exchange coupling with ogen: simple quantum-mechanical models"

Valery Uzdin
"Evolution of the electronic structure with external etic field"

dinner

Tuesday October 23

Ponniah Vajeeston and Helmer Fjellvåg
"Search for novel hydrogen storage materials - a theoretical approach"

Martynas Lelis and Darius Milcius
"Hydrogenation of Mg thin films doped by aluminum additives"

Anna-Karin Eriksson and Sveinn Ólafsson
"Composition and hydrogen uptake of phase separated Mg:C think films"

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Katrín Í. Kortsdóttir and H. Jónsson
"Small Mg and Mg-H clusters"

Jón S. G. Mýrdal and H. Jónsson
"Small Al and Al-H clusters"

Daniel Azofeifa and Björgvin Hjörvarsson
"Electrical and optical studies of hydrided rare earth thin films"

Simone Casolo and Ole M. Løvvik
"A simple model for hydrogen chemisorption on graphite"

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meeting of the MH2008 organizing committee