1998 Workshop on

Spectroscopy of Electronic Excitations in Materials

U. Valladolid , Valladolid, Spain
Monday 7 - Wednesday 9 September 1998


PROGRAMME

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Speakers have been allocated 45, 30 or 20 minutes. The talk should last for 30-35, 20, and 15 minutes, respectively, allowing the rest of the time to be devoted to questions and discussion (which may include brief viewgraphs from members of the audience).
 
 
 

Monday 7 September

09:30 Welcome and Announcements
Chairperson: R.W. Godby
09:45 Eberhard Gross Time-dependent density functional approach to molecular excitations and van der waals functionals 
10:30 John Dobson Optimal local-density-memory approximations for time-dependent and nonlinear phenomena 
11:15 Coffee Break
Chairperson: R. Del Sole
12:05 Robert van Leeuwen Excitational properties: relation between TDDFT and Green function approaches. 
12:50 O.V. Gritsenko Density-functional-theory response-property calculations with accurate exchange-correlation potentials. 
13:20 Lunch
Chairperson: A. Rubio
15:30 Lars Hedin Incommensurate magnetic order and optical properties of doped Mott-Hubbard systems
16:15 Ulf von Barth title to be announced 
17:00 Martin Petersilka  TD-DFT for atoms in strong laser fields 
17:20 Coffee Break
17:40 ROUND TABLE:  TD-DFT and alternative DFT methods 
18:40 End

Tuesday 8 September

Chairperson: S. Louie
09:00 Mauro Boero Calculated I_V characteristics of 1D-0D-1D and 3D-0D-3D double-barrier quantum dot structures
09:20 Stefan Albrecht Ab initio calculation of excitonic effects in optical properties
9:55 Michael Rohlfing Ab-initio calculation of optical absorption spectra 
10:40 Coffee Break
11:00 Eric Shirley Ab initio calculation of absorption spectra with excitonic effects 
11:45 Gianfranco Pacchioni Configuration Interaction Cluster Studies of Optical Properties of Defects in Oxide Materials 
12:30 Arno Schindlmayr Spectra and total energies from self-consistent many-body perturbation theory 
12:50 Lunch

 

Chairperson: G. Onida

15:00 EXCAM groups presentations  (brief presentation of each group's activities by the EXCAM group leaders) 
16:00 Juergen Furthmueller Self-interaction-corrected pseudopotentials: Possible improvements of the scheme 
16:30 M.A. Cazalilla title to be announced 
16:45 Coffee Break
17:05 ROUND TABLE:  Calculations of spectra 
18:00 Meeting of the EXCAM groups (to discuss future activities etc)
19:00 End
20:00 Social Dinner

Wednesday 9 September

Chairperson: U. von Barth
09:30 Lars Hedin On correlation effects in electron spectroscopies and the GW approximation 
10:15 Fernando Flores A LCAO-OO approach for the calculation of quasi-particle levels in highly correlated systems 
11:00 Coffee Break
11:20 Lutz Steinbeck Self-energy calculations for III-V semiconductors with the real-space imaginary-time GW method 
11:40 Marc Torrent Calculation of the electronic structure of clusters in a plane-wave basis : a discussion 
12:00 Valerio Olevano Calculation of the dielectric constant of silicon beyond the local density approximation 
12:30 To be announced to be announced 
13:05 Lunch
Chairperson: L. Reining
15:00 E. Chulkov Lifetime of image potential states on metal surfaces 
15:30 To be announced to be announced 
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 ROUND TABLE:  Technical developements 
17:20 CONCLUDING REMARKS 
17:35 End
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