Welcome Message and Motivation

It is our great honor to welcome you to attend the 13th International Workshop on Oxide Surfaces (IWOX-XIII), which will be held in Phoenix Ski Resort, Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, from Jan. 9 to Jan. 14, 2022. Pyeongchang is a beautiful city where Winter Olympic 2018 was held.

International Workshop on Oxide Surfaces (IWOX) is the leading international forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge basic research in the physics and chemistry of oxide surfaces. Since its inception in 1999, after the Les Houches oxide conference in France in 1997 ("IWOX-0"), IWOX workshops have been held every two years, rotating between the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For the last three Workshops, IWOX-X was held in China, IWOX-XI in Spain, and IWOX-XII in Lake Placid, US.

This meeting will bring together specialists in the field to present and discuss cutting-edge research on oxides, their surfaces, and interfaces. The scientific topics will include: supported oxide and metal clusters, adsorption and surface functionalization surfaces interacting with gases and liquids, two-dimensional materials and thin films, and energy conversion and storage applications. The program will include plenary, invited, and contributed talks, several poster sessions, and two afternoons with free format discussions in the comfort of the hotel or on the ski lifts at this beautiful location. Participation of students and postdocs is strongly encouraged.

I hope you will enjoy the fruitful and active discussion, the beauty of Pyeongchang, South Korea. We look forward to meeting you in Pyeongchang in January 2022.

IWOX International Board

Scott Chambers	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Zdenek Dohnalek	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
M.Veronica Ganduglia	Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry-CSIC
Xue-Qing Gong	State Key Lab of Chemical Engineering
Nicholas Harrison	Imperial College
Hiroshi Onishi	Kobe University
Paola Luches	Istituto Nanoscienze, CNR, Modena
Miquel Salmeron	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Javier Sanz	University Sevilla
Annabella Selloni	Princeton University
Dario Stacchiola	Brookhaven National Laboratory
Martin Sterrer	University of Graz
Christof Woll	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

IWOX-XIII Local Organizing Committee

Hye Ryung Byon	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Joong Il Jake Choi	Institute for Basic Science
Minkee Choi	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Beomgyun Jeong	Korea Basic Science Institute
Hyun You Kim	Research Institute of Nano Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University
Jeehoon Kim	Postech
Ki-jeong Kim	Pohang Accelerator Laboratory
Sang Hoon Kim	Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Hyunhwa Lee	Institute for Basic Science
Hangil Lee	Sookmyung Women's University
Bongjin Simon Mun	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Heejun Yang	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology