The tutorials covering the fundamentals in catalysis will be combined with lectures given by experts in the field of heterogenous and energy related catalysis:

• Burton Richter (SLAC/Stanford)
• Alex T. Bell (UC Berkeley)
• Miquel Salmeron (LBNL)
• Ulrike Diebold (Tech. University Wien)
• Karsten Reuter (Tech. University Munich)
• Anders Nilsson (SLAC/Stanford)
• Jakob Schiøtz (Tech. University Denmark)
• Todd J. Martinez (SLAC/Stanford)
• Robert Schlögl (Fritz Haber Institute Berlin)
• Hans W. Niemantsverdriet (Tech. University Eindhoven)
• Yang Shao-Horn (MIT)
• Ib Chorkendorff (Tech. University Denmark)
• Thomas F. Jaramillo (Stanford)
• Alan C. Luntz (SLAC/Stanford)
• Tejs Vegge (Tech. University Denmark)
• Kristin Persson (LBNL)
• Jens K. Nørskov (SLAC/Stanford)
• Felix Studt (SLAC/Stanford)
• Thomas Bligaard (SLAC/Stanford)
• Aleksandra Vojvodic (SLAC/Stanford)
• Andrew Medford (SLAC/Stanford)
• Jens S. Hummelshøj (SLAC/Stanford)
• Frank Abild-Pedersen (SLAC/Stanford)

Areas covered in the institute:

• Catalysis and energy challenges.
• Potential energy diagrams (adsorption, diffusion, surface reactions) and adsorbate-adsorbate interactions.
• Surface equilibria and rate theory.
• Reaction kinetics.
• Linear scaling relations and trends in surface reactivity.
• Electronic structure theory.
• Catalyst structure and the nature of the active site.
• Electro catalysis and photo electro catalysis.