Conference Presentations, attended or given personally                   September 2011                       Filinchuk Yaroslav

 

1.     Filinchuk Ya.E., Mys’kiv M.G. Copper(I) nitrate pi-complexation with diallylamine. // Abstr. of Papers 5th Sci. Conf. “Lviv Chemical Forum-95”, May 26, 1995, P. 111.

2.     Filinchuk Ya.E., Mys’kiv M.G. Copper(I) pi-complexes with N-allylazomethines // Abstr. of Papers 6th Sci. Conf. “Lviv Chemical forum-97”, May 29-30, 1997, P. 164.

3.     Filinchuk Ya.E., Goreshnik E.A., Mys’kiv M.G. Coordination behaviour of 1,2,3-triallyl­guanidinium and 1,3-diallylbenzimidazolium cations in zwitter-ionic copper(I) halide pi-complexes. // V International Seminar on Physics and Chemistry of Solids. Zloty Potok (near Czestochow), Poland, May 19-22 1999. P. 33.                    oral presentation

4.     Filinchuk Ya.E., Mys’kiv M.G. Quinoid and aromatic forms of N-allyl-4-(N',N'-dimethylamino)-benzaldiminium cation (H+L) in [H+L]CuX2 (X = Cl, Br) and [H+L]Cu3Cl4 pi-complexes. // Abstr. of Papers 7th Sci. Conf. “Lviv Chemical Forum-99”, May 27-28, 1999, P. 4.                     oral presentation

5.     Filinchuk Ya.E. 1-Allylthiosemicarbazide – unique pi,n-chelating ligand in copper(I) complexes. Abstr. of Papers of 1st Ukrainian Conf. of students and graduate students “The Modern Problems of Chemistry”, Kiev, May 18-19, 2000, P. 55.             oral presentation, 1st prize

6.     Filinchuk Y.E., Yvon K. Evidence for hydrogenation induced metal atom exchange in the C14 type structure of CeMn1.8Al0.2. // Book of Abstr. 20th Europ. Crystallogr. Meet., Krakow, Aug. 25-31, 2001, P. 342. POSTER in PDF-file

7.     Lisnyak V.V., Stus N.V., Filinchuk Y.E. The diphosphate LiMo2P2O8, first representative of zero valent molybdenum containing clusters: Mo3O8 and Mo2O4. // Book of Abstr. 20th Europ. Crystallogr. Meet., Krakow, Aug. 25-31, 2001, P. 251.

8.     Filinchuk Ya.E., Mykhalichko B.M., Mys’kiv M.G. Investigations of Cu(I)-multiple C-C-bond interaction peculiarities in olefine and acetylene copper(I) pi-complexes by alternating-current electrochemical  synthesis and X-ray diffraction analysis. // Abstr. of Papers of 15th Ukrainian Conf. on inorganic chemistry with international participation, Kiev, Sept. 4-6, 2001, P. 29.                      oral presentation

9.     Filinchuk Y.E., Yvon K. Evidence for hydrogenation induced metal atom exchange in the C14 type structure of CeMn1.8Al0.2. // Book of Abstr. of the annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography, Yverdon, Oct. 18, 2001, P. 12.

10.  Filinchuk Y., Birkedal H., Cerny R., Hostettler M., Bodak O., Yvon K. Structural heterogeneity in twinned Yb2-x(Fe,Ga)17+2x polytypes. // Book of Abstr. of the XIXth IUCr congress, Geneva, Aug. 6-15, 2002, P. 270. Abstract in PDF-file (Acta Crystallogr., 2002, A58, C270).   POSTER in PDF-file

11.  Filinchuk Y.E., Sheptyakov D., Yvon K. Hydrogenation induced metal atom exchange near room temperature in the C14-type metal sub-structure of CeMn1.8Al0.2H4.4. // Book of Abstr. of the intl' symposium on metal hydrogen systems (MH2002), Annecy (France), Sept. 2-6, 2002, P. 48. POSTER in PDF-file

12.  Filinchuk Y., Birkedal H., Cerny R., Hostettler M., Bodak O., Yvon K. Structural heterogeneity in twinned Yb2-x(Fe,Ga)17+2x polytypes. // Book of Abstr. of the VIII intl' conf. on crystal chemistry of intermetallic compounds, Lviv (Ukraine), Sept. 25-28, 2002, P. 15. PowerPoint presentation                  oral presentation

13.  Filinchuk Y., replacing K. Yvon. Destabilization of metal hydride complexes and theoretical modelling. // International Energy Agency (IEA) Task 17 Workshop, Tateshina, Japan, March 16-19, 2003.     PowerPoint presentation       oral presentation

14.  Filinchuk Y., Yvon K. Hydrogen-induced structure transition in LaNi3B. // Book of Abstr. of the 22nd European Crystallographic Meeting, Budapest, Aug. 26-31, 2004, P. 219. Abstract in PDF-file (Acta Crystallogr., 2004, A60, s219).   POSTER in PDF-file

15.  Filinchuk Y., Yvon K. Directional metal-hydrogen bonding in interstitial hydrides, I – ErNi3Hx (0<x<3.7). // Book of Abstr. of the intl' symposium on metal hydrogen systems (MH2004), Cracow (Poland), Sept. 5-10, 2004, P. 136. Abstract in PDF-file     POSTER in PDF-file

16.  Yvon K., Filinchuk Y., S. Gomes, G. Renaudin, Y. Tokaychuk. Structural studies of metal-hydrogen interactions in solid-state metal hydrides. // Book of Abstr. of the 7th SINQ users' meeting, PSI, Villigen (Switzerland), Jan. 27, 2005. Abstract in PDF-file     PowerPoint presentation  oral presentation

17.  Filinchuk Y. Transition metal-based hydrides: combination of in-situ and high-resolution neutron powder diffraction studies. // Book of Abstr. of the 8th SINQ users' meeting, PSI, Villigen (Switzerland), May 10, 2006. Abstract in PDF-file       invited talk

18.  Filinchuk Y. In-situ and high-resolution powder diffraction studies of complex metal-hydrogen systems. // Book of Abstr. of EPDIC-10, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 1-4, 2006. Abstract in PDF-file           invited talk

19.  Chotard J-N., Filinchuk Y., Yvon K. La2MgNi2H8, the first mixed polyanionic transition metal hydride. // Book of Abstr. of EPDIC-10, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 1-4, 2006. Abstract in PDF-file     POSTER in PDF-file

20.  Filinchuk Y., Yvon K. Deuterium Site Occupancies in Ce2Ni7D4 and Comparison with CeNi3D2.8. // Book of Abstr. of the intl' symposium on metal-hydrogen systems (MH2006), Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, USA, Oct. 1-6, 2006.          Abstract in PDF-file       oral presentation

21.  Chotard J-N., Filinchuk Y., Clayton N., Yvon K. A new example for a hydrogen induced insulating state in the La-Mg-Ni-H system. // Book of Abstr. of the intl' symposium on metal-hydrogen systems (MH2006), Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, USA, Oct. 1-6, 2006.      Abstract in PDF-file   oral presentation by J.N. Chotard

22.  Yartys V.A., Maehlen J.P., Denys R.V., Fichtner M., Frommen Ch., Bulychev B.M., Emerich H., Filinchuk, Y.E. Alane AlH3 for Hydrogen Storage. // Book of Abstr. of the intl' symposium on metal-hydrogen systems (MH2006), Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, USA, Oct. 1-6, 2006.      Abstract in PDF-file   oral presentation by V.A. Yartys

23.  Chernyshov D., Dmitriev V., Filinchuk Y., Pattison P. The Swiss-Norwegian Beamline – BM01A. // Book of Abstr. of the annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography, Berne, Oct. 20, 2006, P. 33.     Poster in PowerPoint file

24.  Chotard J.-N., Filinchuk Y., Yvon K. La2MgNi2H8, the first mixed polyanionic transition metal hydride. // Book of Abstr. of the annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography, Berne, Switzerland, Oct. 20, 2006, P. 38.     PowerPoint presentation                  oral presentation

25.  Filinchuk Y., Intermetallic hydrides beyond the “interstitial” model. // Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA, July 8-13, 2007.    invited talk

26.  Cerny R., Filinchuk Y., Hagemann H., Yvon K. Magnesium borohydride: synthesis and crystal structure // Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA, July 8-13, 2007. POSTER in PDF-file

27.  Filinchuk Y., Chernyshov D. Looking at hydrogen atoms with X-rays: comprehensive synchrotron diffraction study of LiBH4 // 24th Europ. Crystallogr. Meeting, Marrakech, Aug. 22-27, 2007. Abstract in PDF-file (Acta Crystallogr., 2007, A63, s240).  Oxford Cryosystems poster prize

28.  Participated on the panel discussion at the International Symposium on Materials Issues in a Hydrogen Economy, Richmond, USA, Nov. 12-15, 2007. The summary of the round table discussion was published in Materials Issues in a Hydrogen Economy (Jorgensen S.W., Chahine R., Meyers J.P., Parks G.D., Pundt A.A., Filinchuk Y. Panel summary) 2007. P. 325-333. member of the panel discussion

29.  Filinchuk Y., Talyzin A., Hagemann H., Chernyshov D., Dmitriev V. Synchrotron diffraction to study new forms of light borohydrides. // Book of Abstr. of the annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland, Sept. 12-13, 2007.            oral presentation

30.  Cerny R., Filinchuk Y., Hagemann H., Yvon K. Magnesium borohydride: synthesis and crystal structure. // Book of Abstr. of the annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland, Sept. 12-13, 2007.

31.  Filinchuk Y., Chernyshov D., Nevidomskyy A., Dmitriev V. Destabilization of light borohydrides by pressure, temperature and by reaction with water. // Intl' symposium on metal-hydrogen systems (MH2008), Reykjavík, Iceland, Jun. 24-28, 2008. Abstract in PDF-file    invited talk

32.  Buchter F., Lodziana Z., Remhof A., Mauron Ph., Züttel A., Filinchuk Y. Experimental electronic charge density of complex hydrides from maximum entropy method. // Intl' symposium on metal-hydrogen systems (MH2008), Reykjavík, Iceland, Jun. 24-28, 2008. Abstract in PDF-file

33.  Filinchuk Y., Chernyshov D., Dmitriev V. Light metal borohydrides: going beyond crystal structures // Book of Abstr. of the XXIst IUCr congress, Osaka, Japan, Aug. 23-31, 2008, C83. Abstract in PDF-file (Acta Crystallogr., 2008, A64, C83).   PowerPoint presentation          invited talk

34.  Filinchuk Y. Light metal hydrides under non-ambient conditions: probing chemistry by diffraction // Summer school on high-pressure Crystallography, Erice, Italy, June 4-14, 2009.         invited lecture + two workshops (in watch-me and follow-me formats, the workshops' title: "Structure solution from high-pressure diffraction data")

35.  Filinchuk Y., Chernyshov D., Dmitriev V., Cerny R., Ravnsbæk D., Jensen T., Hagemann H., Nevidomskyy A. Porous and dense frameworks in borohydrides and phase transition phenomena in ammonia borane // Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Lucca (Barga), Italy, July 12-17, 2009. short oral on invitation

36.  Černý R., Penin N., Ravnsbæk D., Severa G., Filinchuk Y., Hagemann H. New borohydrides - crystal structures // Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Lucca (Barga), Italy, July 12-17, 2009.

37.  Hagemann H., D’Anna V.,  Černý R., Filinchuk Y. New vibrational spectra and structures of borohydrides // Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Lucca (Barga), Italy, July 12-17, 2009.

38.  Jensen T.R., Ravnsbæk D., Filinchuk Y., Cerenius Y. Mixed-metal boron-based hydrides as potential future hydrogen storage materials // Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Lucca (Barga), Italy, July 12-17, 2009.

39.  Skripov A.V., Soloninin A.V., Buzlukov A.L., Stepanov A.P., Filinchuk Y., Chernyshov D. Nuclear magnetic resonance study of the rotational motion and diffusion in LiBH4  // Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Lucca (Barga), Italy, July 12-17, 2009.

40.  Filinchuk Y., Chernyshov D., Dmitriev V., Nevidomskyy A. Probing strong and weak interactions in Mg(BH4)2 and NH3BH3 by diffraction under high pressure // 25th Europ. Crystallogr. Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 16-21, 2009. (Acta Crystallogr., 2009, A65, s125-s126)   oral presentation

41.  Filinchuk Y. Chemistry by diffraction: unveiling bonding from the wealth of experiments // ESRF Users' meeting, Grenoble, France, Feb. 10, 2010.            plenary on invitation, ESRF young scientist award lecture

42.  Filinchuk Y. Looking into chemistry of hydrogen storage materials using synchrotron powder diffraction and extras // 40th Danish Crystallographers Meeting and 3rd DANSCATT Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 31-June 1, 2010. invited talk

43.  Ravnsbæk D., Filinchuk Y., Černý R., Skibsted J., Jensen T.R. Novel metal borohydrides - crystal structures, thermal decomposition and reactivity // 40th Danish Crystallographers Meeting and 3rd DANSCATT Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 31-June 1, 2010.

44.  Jepsen L.H., Rude L.H., Filinchuk Y., Jensen T.R. Synthesis and investigation of borohydride-flourides // 40th Danish Crystallographers Meeting and 3rd DANSCATT Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 31-June 1, 2010.

45.  Rude L.H., Filinchuk Y., Sørby M.H., Hauback B.C., Besenbacher F., Jensen T.R. Anion substitution in Ca(BH4)2-CaI2. The structure of three new compounds // 40th Danish Crystallographers Meeting and 3rd DANSCATT Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 31-June 1, 2010.

46.  Filinchuk Y. "How to study metal and chemical hydrides under non-ambient conditions" and "Solving structures of new hydrides from powder diffraction data" // Summer School-2010 on Materials for the Hydrogen Society, ISSP, Chernogolovka, Russia, July 14-18, 2010.          two invited lectures

47.  Filinchuk Y., Černý R., Ravnsbæk D., Richter B., Jensen T.R., Chernyshov D., Dmitriev V., Hagemann H. Structure and bonding in metal borohydrides // Intl' symposium on metal-hydrogen systems (MH2010), Moscow, Russia, July 19-23, 2010.         invited talk

48.  Ravnsbæk D., Filinchuk Y., Černý R., Jensen T.R. Novel metal borohydrides – crystal structures, thermal decomposition and reactivity // Intl' symposium on metal-hydrogen systems (MH2010), Moscow, Russia, July 19-23, 2010.

49.  Babanova O.A., Soloninin A.V., Skripov A.V., Filinchuk Y., Hagemann H. Reorientational motion in Mg(BH4)2: a nuclear magnetic resonance study // Intl' symposium on metal-hydrogen systems (MH2010), Moscow, Russia, July 19-23, 2010.

50.  Hagemann H., D'Anna V., Rapin J.P., Černý R., Filinchuk Y., Kim K., Sholl D., Parker S.F. New experimental studies on Mg(BH4)2 and other borohydrides // Intl' symposium on metal-hydrogen systems (MH2010), Moscow, Russia, July 19-23, 2010.

51.  Fijałkowski K.J., Genova R., Filinchuk Y., Jaroń T., Budzianowski A., Grochala W.  Novel mixed-cation amidoborane of lithium and sodium – not a simple solid solution of LiNH2BH3 and NaNH2BH3 // Intl' symposium on metal-hydrogen systems (MH2010), Moscow, Russia, July 19-23, 2010.

52.  Filinchuk Y., Chernyshov D., Dmitriev V. High pressure studies as a knowledge-based approach to chemistry of hydrogen storage materials // 48th European High Pressure Research Group Conference, EHPRG 48, Uppsala, Sweden, July 25-29, 2010. invited talk

53.  Filinchuk Y., Richter B., Ravnsbæk D., Jensen T.R.,  Chernyshov D., Dmitriev V., Černý R. Porosity and polymorphism as a sign of directional bonding in light hydrides // 26th European Crystallographic Meeting, ECM 26, Darmstadt, Germany, Aug. 29-Sept 2, 2010.         invited talk

54.  Černý R., Filinchuk Y., Ropka J., Li Y.  Local atomic order in apparently disordered crystals: what we can learn from Pair Distribution Function // 26th European Crystallographic Meeting, ECM 26, Darmstadt, Germany, Aug. 29-Sept 2, 2010.

55.  Mondal S., van Smaalen S., Schönleber A., Filinchuk Y., Zarechnaya E.Yu., Dubrovinskaia N., Dubrovinsky L. Experimental charge density study of g-B28 // 26th European Crystallographic Meeting, ECM 26, Darmstadt, Germany, Aug. 29-Sept 2, 2010.

56.  Dubrovinskaia N., Zarechnaya E.Yu., Caracas R., Merlini M., Hanfland M., Filinchuk Y., Chernyshov D., Dmitriev V., Dubrovinsky L. Pressure-induced isostructural phase transformation in g-B28. // 26th European Crystallographic Meeting, ECM 26, Darmstadt, Germany, Aug. 29-Sept 2, 2010.

57.  Filinchuk Y. Structure solution from poor powder data – seeking help from chemistry and theory // 12th European Powder Diffraction Conference, EPDIC 12, Darmstadt, Germany, Aug. 27-30, 2010.        oral presentation

58.  Chairing the Microsymposium 17 "Materials for energy storage and conversion" // 12th European Powder Diffraction Conference, EPDIC 12, Darmstadt, Germany, Aug. 27-30, 2010. chairman

59.  Filinchuk Y., Černý R., Lindemann I., Domènech Ferrer R., Dunsch L., Hagemann H., D'Anna V., Lawson Daku L.M., Gutfleisch O., Chernyshov D., Dmitriev V., Nevidomskyy A. Light hydrides studied by the combination of X-ray powder diffraction and theory // Book of Abstr. of the annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 16-17, 2010.

60.  Černý R., Filinchuk Y., Ropka J., Li Y. Local atomic order in apparently disordered crystals: what we can learn from the pair distribution function // Book of Abstr. of the annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 16-17, 2010.

61.  Chernyshov D., Pattison P., Filinchuk Y., Dmitriev V. Update from the Swiss-Norwegian Beam Line BM01A at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility // Book of Abstr. of the annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 16-17, 2010.

62.  Filinchuk Y. In-situ powder diffraction // Summer school "The power of powder diffraction", Erice, Italy, June 2-12, 2011. invited lecture

63.  Riktor M.D., Filinchuk Y., Sørby M.H., Hauback B.C. Thermal phase evolution of Ca(BH4)2 studied by SR-PXD // Summer school "The power of powder diffraction", Erice, Italy, June 2-12, 2011.

64.  Filinchuk Y., Richter B., Jensen T.R., Dmitriev V., Chernyshov D., Hagemann H. Reactivity of Mg(BH4)2: dehydrogenation pathways, new polymorphs, interaction with H2, N2, CH4 and CO2 // Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Easton (near Boston), MA, USA, July 17-22, 2011.

65.  Babanova O.A., Soloninin A.V., Skripov A.V., Hagemann H., Richter B., Jensen T.R., Filinchuk Y. Reorientational motion of BH4 groups in different phases of Mg(BH4)2: NMR studies // Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Easton (near Boston), MA, USA, July 17-22, 2011.

66.  Hauback B.C., Riktor M.D., Filinchuk Y., Fichtner M., Sørby M.H. Decomposition studies of Ca(BH4)2 // Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Easton (near Boston), MA, USA, July 17-22, 2011.

67.  Ravnsbæk D., Filinchuk Y., Jensen T.R. Crystal structures and reactivity of novel metal borohydrides // Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Easton (near Boston), MA, USA, July 17-22, 2011.

68.  Filinchuk Y. Energy related materials: borohydrides // XXIInd IUCr congress, Madrid, Spain, Aug. 22-30, 2011. keynote lecture (>3000 participants)

69.  Mondal S., van Smaalen S., Schönleber A., Filinchuk Y., Chernyshov D., Simak S.I., Mikhaylushkin A.S., Abrikosov I.A., Zarechnaya E.Y., Dubrovinsky L., Dubrovinskaia N. Electron deficient and polycenter bonds in γ-B28 // XXIInd IUCr congress, Madrid, Spain, Aug. 22-30, 2011.

 

Forthcoming meetings:

70.  Filinchuk Y. Hydrogen society // CLUSTER Course in Materials for Energy, Tällberg, Sweden, Oct. 9-14, 2011. confirmed invited speaker

71.  Filinchuk Y. Title to be defined later // Materials for Hydrogen Storage – Future Perspectives?, Hurtigruten, Norway, Jun. 14-18, 2012. confirmed invited speaker

72.  27th European Crystallographic Meeting, ECM 27, Bergen, Norway, Aug. 7-11, 2012.

73.  Intl' Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen systems (MH2012), Kyoto, Japan, Oct. 21-26, 2012.

 

Other conferences attended as a registered participant:

1.     CDD'01, Crystallography & Drug Design, Lodz (Poland), Sept. 1-3, 2001.

2.     International Energy Agency (IEA) Task 17 Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 9-11, 2002.

3.     Annual meetings of the Swiss Society for Crystallography: Zurich (2003), Neuchatel (2004), Lausanne (2005).

4.     MaThCryst, 3-days Workgroup "Mathematical and Symmetry Aspects", a satellite Meeting of ECM 22, Budapest, Aug. 24-26, 2004.

5.     16th ESRF Users Meeting, Grenoble, France, Feb. 6-10, 2006.

6.     High Pressure and Synchrotron Radiation Satellite Workshop, Grenoble, France, Feb. 8-10, 2006.

7.     'Under the Bonnet' Powder Diffraction Software Workshop, a satellite of EPDIC-10, Geneva, Sept. 1, 2006.

8.     Nano-materials and Powder Diffraction, Satellite to EPDIC-10, Geneva, Aug. 31, 2006.

9.     Swiss-Norwegian workshop on in-situ experiments at SNBL using high gas pressures, Grenoble, France, Nov. 8-9, 2007.

10.  FPSchool-2008 - 1st ILL Annual School on Advanced Neutron Diffraction Data Treatment using the FullProf Suite, Grenoble, France, Feb. 11-15, 2008.

11.  Swiss-Norwegian workshop on simultaneous Raman-X-ray diffraction/absorption studies for the in-situ investigations, Grenoble, France, June 18-19, 2008.

12.  8th iNANO Annual Meeting, Aarhus, Denmark, Jan. 20, 2010.

Lectures, seminars

1.     Filinchuk Y. Ni-H interaction and structural transitions in novel intermetallic hydrides. // Seminar at the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Lviv, Ukraine, Sept. 3, 2004, PowerPoint presentation (in Ukrainian).

2.     Filinchuk Y. Directional Metal-Hydrogen bonding in interstitial hydrides. Structural study of Ce2Ni7H4. // Seminar at the Lab. of Crystallography, University of Geneva, Switzerland, March 8, 2005. PowerPoint presentation

3.     Filinchuk Y. Structural complexity of Metal-Hydrogen systems. // Seminar at the Swiss-Norwegian Beam Lines (SNBL) at ESRF, Grenoble, France, Sept. 6, 2005.

4.     Filinchuk Y. Structural complexity of Metal-Hydrogen systems: instruments and methods to gain insight. // Seminar at the central Labs of General Motors, Warren (near Detroit), MI, USA, Nov. 1, 2005.

5.     Filinchuk Y. Solid state metal hydrides: probing chemistry by diffraction. // Seminar at the Hydrogen and Energy Section, EMPA, Dübendorf (near Zürich), Switzerland, Oct. 24, 2006.

6.     Filinchuk Y. Solid state metal hydrides: probing chemistry by diffraction. // Seminar at the Lab. of Crystallography, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov. 27, 2006.

7.     Filinchuk Y. Large facilities for small objects. // Seminar at the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Lviv, Ukraine, Dec. 26, 2006.

8.     Filinchuk Y. Synchrotron diffraction studies of light hydride systems. // Seminar at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław, Poland, Feb. 17, 2007.

9.     Filinchuk Y. Flexible Metal-Organic Frameworks: selective adsorption with pore opening. // Talk at the Experiments Division Meeting, ESRF, Grenoble, France, Apr. 24, 2007.

10.  Filinchuk Y. Synchrotron radiation in chemistry: a view from the Swiss-Norwegian Lab in Grenoble. // Seminar at the Section of Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland, June 21, 2007.       Abstract in PDF-file

11.  Filinchuk Y. Big experimental facilities: looking closer into new materials by good old crystallography. // Seminar at the Dept. of Physics, University of Sherbrooke, Canada, July 18, 2007.

12.  Filinchuk Y. Investigation of light metal hydrides: combining efforts. // BfE Project Meeting on Complex Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage, University of Geneva, Dec. 11, 2007.

13.  Filinchuk Y. Synchrotron diffraction studies of light borohydrides under high pressure. // Talk at the Experiments Division Meeting, ESRF, Grenoble, France, March 4, 2008.

14.  Filinchuk Y. Chemical crystallography extending beyond structure determination. Case studies of coordination/organic compounds and hydrides. // Seminar at the Section of Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland, June 21, 2007.

15.  Filinchuk Y. Simultaneous use of X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy, in-situ experiments under high gas pressures, measurement and treatment of large powder data series. // Practical workshop at the Swiss-Norwegian Beam Lines (SNBL) at ESRF, Grenoble, France, Oct. 10-14, 2007. Organizer. The course was attended by more than 15 participants

16.  Filinchuk Y. Practical aspects of powder diffraction. // Seminar at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Lviv, Ukraine, March 24, 2009.

17.  Filinchuk Y. Four-hour lecture course "Practical aspects of powder diffraction" for the students of the Faculty of Physics, University of Umeå, Sweden, May-June 2009.

18.  Filinchuk Y.  Light next to heavy: unexpected chemistry of hydrogen in metals. // Specialized iNANO lecture, University of Aarhus, Denmark, January 21, 2010.      abstract

19.  Filinchuk Y. Chemistry by diffraction: unveiling bonding from the wealth of experiments. // Specialized iNANO lecture, University of Aarhus, Denmark, February 23, 2010.   abstract

20.  Filinchuk Y. Lecture course "Powder diffraction for studies of structural chemistry and chemical reactions" for the students of the Faculty of Chemistry and iNANO, University of Aarhus, Denmark, Jan.-Feb., 2010. valued by 3 ECTS-credit

21.  Filinchuk Y. Metal borohydrides: from structure to bonding and properties. // Seminar at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), Kjeller, Norway, November 17, 2010.

22.  Filinchuk Y. New approaches to materials for energy storage and conversion. // Seminar at the Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden, January 10, 2011.

23.  Filinchuk Y. Intriguing chemistry of materials for hydrogen storage. // Seminar at the Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides, Université de Picardie - Jules Verne, France, March 10, 2011.

24.  Filinchuk Y.  Materials chemistry through the prism of modern diffraction. // Seminar at the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, April 1, 2011.