The Villa Conference on Complex Oxide Heterostructures (VC-COH) aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for a diverse of researchers working on synthesis, theory, modeling, and characterization of functional complex oxides, bridging materials research and applications. International scientists with common professional interests in oxide materials will gather in a friendly and informal atmosphere to share both recent developments and their new ideas about revolutionary approaches that promise materials with new functionalities and behaviors.

The conference style is reminiscent of the Gordon Research Conferences (GRCs), which are well recognized for their effectiveness in promoting communication between scientists in a setting other than one would find at large scientific meetings. While GRCs prohibit direct publication and reference to the conference in publications, we are encouraging open-access to all information presented at Villa conferences, regardless whether given in a talk, a poster, or the following conference proceedings.

VC-COH is designed for discussions both in small groups and plenary sessions, to stimulate in-depth understanding of new materials discovery, design, synthesis, and characterization, on both experimental and theoretical issues.

In this year’s conference, recent advances in materials design at the atomic-scale to tailor inter-facial phenomena that control the macroscopic physical properties will be the main focus. In particular, new emerging physical phenomena in complex oxide thin films and heterostructures with functionalities designed through controlling and understanding the interactions of electrons, phonons, photons, atoms, ions, etc. are of great interest for future oxide electronics. Special emphasis will be also given to complex oxides for energy technologies. Both experimental and theoretical issues of nanoscale phenomena that promise materials with new functionalities and/or unobserved behaviors will be discussed.

Ivan Bozovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York;

Melanie Cole, Army Research Laboratory, Baltimore, Maryland;

Elbio Dagotto, University of Tennessee/ORNL, Tennessee;

James Scott, University of Cambridge, UK;

Dave Blank, University of Twente, Netherlands;

Ralph Claessen,University of Wuerzburg,Germany;

Evgeny Tsymbal, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska;

Pam Thomas, University of Warwick, UK;

Hiroshi Kumigashira, University of Tokyo, Japan;

Yusuka Kozuka, University of Tokyo, Japan;

Ram Katiyar, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico;

Gervasi Herranz, ICMAB-CSIC, Spain

Alexander Boris, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany;

Roy Clarke, University of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan;

Philip Willmott, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland;

Manuel Bibes, Thales Research and Technology,France;

Gopalan Srinvasan, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan;

Matthew Dawber, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York;

Xavier Moya, University of Cambridge, UK;

Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Christian Bernhard , University of Fribourg,Switzerland;

John Freeland, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois;

Jorge Iniguez, ICMAB-CSIC, Spain

Javier Junquera, University of Cantabria, Spain;

Brahim Dkhil, Ecole Centrale, Paris, France;

Omar Chmaissem, Northern Illinois University,  Illinois;

Andrei Kirilyuk, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands;

Jak Tchakhalian, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 

Craig J. Fennie, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York;

Eva Pavarini, Institut f"ur Festk"orperforschung (IFF), Germany;

Alexei Gruverman,  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska;

Pamir Alpay, University of Connecticut, Connecticut;

Jacobo Santamaria,  Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain; 

Jens Kreisel, CNRS, France;

Hannes Lichte, Institut für Strukturphysik (ISP), Germany;

Yoshihiro Iwasa, Tohoku University, Japan;

Jim Eckstein, University of Illinois, Illinois;

Daniel Haskel, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois;

Wilfred Prellier, CRISMAT Laboratory, France;

Laurent Bellaiche, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; 

Rossitza Pencheva, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany;

Charles Ahn, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut;

Suzanne Te Velthuis,Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois;

Helene Bea,University of Geneva, Switzerland;

Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota, Minnesota;

Chonglin Chen, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas;

Davor Pavuna, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley, California;

Sashi Satpathy, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri;

Maria Valera, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee;