20th Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • June 18–20, 2008
Materials Research Laboratory and Engineering Sciences Building, 104 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana Illinois

Announcements

8/10/2009 The videos are back online, and in Flash format.

6/26/2008 The group photo is now available. Nearly all the talk slides are available below. The videos will be completed in a few weeks, and will also be linked below.

6/19/2008 Congratulations to winners of the Poster Presentation Competition:

Overview

This workshop series brings together participants in electronic structure theory from around the world, in particular from the US. The presentations describe new methods for computing previously inaccessible properties, breakthroughs in computational efficiency and accuracy, and novel applications of these approaches to the study of molecules, liquids, and solids.

The program will consist of invited oral presentations and contributed posters describing new methods for computing previously inaccessible properties, breakthroughs in computational efficiency and accuracy, and novel applications of these approaches to the study of molecules, liquids, and solids.

Invited Speakers

Name Talk
James Allen, University of Michigan Synergistic Opportunities for ARPES and Theory of Correlated Electron Solids ( Slides )
Ferdi Aryasetiawan, Chiba University, Japan Constrained RPA calculations of the Hubbard U ( Slides )
Davide Ceresoli, SISSA Ab-initio pseudopotential theory of the orbital magnetization ( Slides )
Tzu-Liang Chan, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences Efficient algorithms for the electronic structure of nanocrystals ( Slides )
Morrel Cohen, Rutgers and Princeton Cancelled--Partition Theory; Further Developments
Valentino Cooper, Rutgers University Applications of the van der Waals density functional to DNA and metal organic framework materials ( Slides )
Richard Hennig, Cornell University Quasi-two-dimensional electronic states in a dense three-dimensional Li-Be alloy ( Slides )
Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale, University of Illinois Techniques for Developing Efficient Petascale Applications
Jan Kunes, University of Augsburg Transition Metal Oxides: Mott Transition under Pressure ( Slides )
Deyu Lu, University of California, Davis Cancelled--Microscopic representations of the dielectric response in ice and water
Richard Martin, University of Illinois and Stanford University Closing Remarks
Burkhard Militzer, UC Berkeley First-Principles Simulations in Planetary Science ( Slides )
Richard Needs, University of Cambridge Predicting crystal structures by random searching ( Slides )
Qian Niu, University of Texas Berry phase effects on electron properties ( Slides )
Emil Prodan, Yeshiva University Tunneling conductance of molecular wires ( Slides )
Fernando Reboredo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fullerenes: a workbench for many-body theories benchmarks ( Slides )
Lucia Reining, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique Ab initio calculations of electronic response ingredients, results and challenges ( Slides )
Sandro Sorella, SISSA Recent progress with Lattice Regularized Diffusion Monte Carlo ( Slides )
Philipp Werner, Columbia University Diagrammatic Monte Carlo simulation of quantum impurity models ( Slides )
Li Yang, University of California at Berkeley GW-BSE Calculation of the Optical Response of Spin Polarized Materials and Nanostructures ( Slides )
Shiwei Zhang, College of William and Mary A stochastic independent-electron approach for correlated system ( Slides )

Sponsors

This year's workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation and these organizations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: