2009 ETSF Workshop on Electronic Excitations

Preliminary program:

Sunday, September 13

20:00		(at the Hotel)

Monday, September 14

12:30		(at the Hotel)
14:00	SC meeting
16:00
16:30	SC meeting
	IT meetings	(as arranged by IT convenors and members)
20:30		(at the Hotel - Buffet)

Tuesday, September 15

9:00	Welcome address
9:20	Steven Louie	Spectroscopic and Transport Properties of Graphene and Graphene Nanostructures
10:20
10:50	Patrick Rinke	Auger recombination rates in nitrides from first principles
11:10	Hannes Huebener	Second Harmonic Generation in Bulk Silicon
11:30	Julien Vidal	How can ab initio calculations help to improve solar cells?
12:10	Nicola Spallanzani	Photo-excitation of light-harvesting supra-molecular triad: a TDDFT study
12:30		(at the Hotel)
14:30	Gustavo Scuseria	New models for mixing wavefunctions with density functional theory
15:30
16:00	Steen Nielsen	Absorption spectra of chromophore ions obtained from storage ring experiments
17:00	Adriano Conte	A theoretical investigation on the first step of the mechanism of vision in living beings
17:20	Marius Wanko	Multiscale Approaches for Protein Spectroscopy
17:40	Round Table	Interaction of ETSF with users
20:00		(at "Jardim do Paço" restaurant)

Wednesday, September 16

9:00	Emily Carter	Ab Initio Treatment of Excited States and Strongly Correlated Electrons in Crystals
10:00	Federico Iori	In strong correlation do we trust? The paradigm of V2O3
10:20
10:50	Matteo Guzzo	Exchange and correlation effects in the electronic properties of transition-metal oxides: The example of NiO
11:10	Martin Stankovski	Oxidise this: A study of PAW+QPSCGW calculations on Zn and Sn oxides
11:30	Jim Greer	Calculation of electron correlations and excitation spectra from a Monte Carlo configuration generation technique
12:10	Dietrich Foerster *	Extension of the LCAO method to excited states
12:30		(at the Hotel)
14:30	W. Temmermann	Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Rare Earths and Actinide Compounds
15:30
16:00	Xinguo Ren	Assessing the random phase approximation: CO adsorption and weakly bonded systems
16:40	Esa Räsänen	Functionals in low-dimensional systems
17:00	Ulf von Barth	Correlation energy functional and potential from time-dependent exact-exchange theory
18:00		(Light dinner - cheese and wine tasting at "Rota dos Vinhos")

* with Peter Koval

Thursday, September 17

9:00	Hervé Ness	Non equilibrium and many-body effects in quantum transport through nanoscale devices
9:40	Hector Mera	Are Kohn-Shamm conductances accurate?
10:00	Valerio Olevano	Effective 1D theory and generalized Fisher-Lee formula for quantum transport at nanocontacts
10:20
10:50	Simon Dubois	Quantum Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons
11:30	Zeila Zanolli	Transport properties of carbon atomic wires
11:50	Aurelien Lherbier	Charge transport in 2D graphene including dopants/defects ... ab initio and tight-binding coupled approach
12:30		(at the Hotel)
14:30	Juan Garcia-Lastra	Classical and Many-Body Theory of Image Potentials at Solid-Molecule Interfaces
15:10	Andreas Gierlich	All-electron GW Calculations for Perovskite Transition-Metal Oxides
15:30	J.A. Berger	GW without empty states
15:50	Pina Romaniello	The self-energy beyond GW
16:10
16:40	Poster Session
20:00		(at "Jardim do Paço" restaurant)

Friday, September 18

9:00	Alberto Castro	Quantum Optimal Control Theory with TDDFT
9:40	Ilya Tokatly	Linear Continuum Mechanics for Quantum Many-Body Systems
10:00
10:30	Andre Schleife	From Ideal Bulk to Reality - Interplay of Excitonic Effects with Defects and Doping
11:10	Claudia Roedl	Absorption Spectra of Magn. Insulators: Antiferromagn. Trans.-Metal Oxides and Ferrogmagn. CrBr3
11:30	M. Cazzaniga	Ab-initio long wavelength dielectric properties of bulk iron
11:50	Giancarlo Cappellini	Optical absorption ... polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
12:10	Giovanni Onida	Spectroscopy of Monoatomic Carbon wires connecting sp2 carbon fragments
12:30		(at the Hotel)
14:30	Pierluigi Cudazzo	Ab Initio Description of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Dense Molecular Hydrogen
14:50	Frank Fuchs	Ab-initio study of atomic gold-wires on Ge(001)
15:10	Hansi Weissker	Temperature effects on the electronic and optical properties of silicon clusters
15:30	Final remarks
15:40
16:00		ETSF Members' meeting
20:00		(Banquet at the Hotel)

Saturday, September 19

9:00	SC meeting
10:30
11:00	SC meeting
12:30		(at the Hotel)