20th Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods

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

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.

Speakers

The list of speakers includes:

  • James Allen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Ferdi Aryasetiawan, Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba, Japan
  • Davide Ceresoli, SISSA, Trieste, Italy "Ab-initio pseudopotential theory of the orbital magnetization" Abstract
  • Tzu-Liang Chan, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
  • Morrell Cohen, Rutgers University, "Partition Theory; Further Developments"
  • Valentino Cooper, Rutgers University,"Applications of the van der Waals density functional to DNA and metal organic framework materials"
  • Richard Hennig, Cornell University
  • Laxmikant Kale, University of Illinois
  • Jan Kunes, University of Augsburg, Germany, "Transition Metal Oxides: Mott Transition under Pressure"
  • Deyu Lu, University of California, Davis "Microscopic representations of the dielectric response in ice and water"
  • Richard Needs, Cambridge University, "Predicting crystal structures by random searching" Abstract
  • Qian Niu, University of Texas at Austin, "Berry phase effects on electron properties"
  • Emil Prodan, Yeshiva University, New York "Tunneling conductance of molecular wires" Abstract
  • Fernando Reboredo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Fullerenes: a workbench for many-body theories benchmarks"
  • Lucia Reining, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
  • Sandro Sorella, SISSA, Trieste, Italy "Recent progress with Lattice Regularized Diffusion Monte Carlo"
  • Phillip Werner, Columbia University, "Diagrammatic Monte Carlo simulation of quantum impurity models" Abstract
  • Li Yang, UC Berkeley, "GW-BSE Calculation of the Optical Response of Spin Polarized Materials and Nanostructures"
  • Shiwei Zhang, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, "A stochastic independent-electron approach for correlated systems" Abstract

Sponsors

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

Questions

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