Hi all,
Sorry for the late reminder - today Thomas will give group meeting. Note that it's for an indepenedent research proposal. See below for the title and abstract.
As always, the group calendar and
group meeting schedule are kept up to date in case I fall asleep too early without sending an abstract.. If you'd like to give a group meeting to practice a talk etc, let me know.
Apart from that, group meetings will be shifting an hour later (to a 3:30 start) beginning in mid-May or early June - more on this later.
Best,
Ian
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Speaker: Thomas Markovich
Title: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love TDDFT
Abstract: I will present some recent work that I've done with building dispersion corrections into time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The talk will start with a motivating example, and then move to a (hopefully) clear exposition of DFT and TDDFT. Building on this, the failures of TDDFT will be explored. In particularly, I will explain physically why TDDFT fails for excitations with significant charge transfer character, and I will provide some theoretical rationale for why dispersion corrections could provide a way forward. I will present a couple provocative, but by no means complete, computational examples where dispersion has an effect. Finally, I will present a multi-step road map for this project.
Please note: I will be practicing my independent research proposal, so this will be a speculative group meeting.