Dear Colleague,

 Please find below the announcement for the Gordon Research Conference
on Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory of 2009. We would appreciate
if you could forward this message to anyone who might be interested.

 Thank you,

 Miguel Marques & Angel Rubio

P.S. Our apologies if your receive this message in duplicate

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                     Gordon Research Conference
                                -
              Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory


                         July 5-10, 2009
                                -
        http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2009&program=timedepen


                       Colby-Sawyer College
                        New London, NH, USA


_Introduction_

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is an extension of
density functional theory (DFT) to time-dependent problems, and can be
viewed as an alternative formulation of time-dependent quantum
mechanics. The use of TDDFT is increasing, and it is fast becoming one
of the tools of choice to get accurate and reliable predictions for
excited-state properties in solid state physics, chemistry and
biophysics, both in the linear and non-linear regimes. This interest has
been motivated by the recent developments of TDDFT (and time-dependent
current functional theory) and include the description of
photo-absorption cross section of molecules and nanostructures,
electron-ion dynamics in the excited state triggered by either a small
or high intense laser fields, van der Waals interactions, development of
new functionals coping with memory and non-locality effects,
applications to biological systems, transport phenomena, optical spectra
of solids and low-dimensional structures (as nanotubes, polymers, and
surfaces), etc.

The purpose and scope of this Gordon Research Conference is to provide a
platform for discussing the current state of the art of the rapidly
progressing, highly interdisciplinary field of TDDFT, to identify and
debate open questions, and to point out new promising research
directions. We plan to bring together scientists of different
backgrounds, from chemistry and physics to biology and material science,
in the unique intellectual environment provided by a Gordon Research
Conference.


_Workshop Program_

Chairs:         Miguel A. L. Marques & Angel Rubio
Vice-chairs:    Troy Van Voorhis & Fillipp Furche

Session 1:      Theoretical foundations
Kieron Burke, E.K.U Gross*, R. v. Leeuwen

Session 2:      New functionals
Stephan Kuemmel, Kimihiko Hirao, Gustavo E. Scuseria, Francesc Illas*

Session 3:      Van der Waals interactions
Troy Van Voorhis, John Dobson*, Georg Kresse

Seession 4:     Electronic Transport
Massimiliano di Ventra, Harold Baranger, Kristian Thygessen, Mark
Ratner*

Session 5:      Charge transfer/non adiabatic phenomena
Neepa Maitra, Martin Head-Gordon, Todd Martinez

Session 6:      Computational challenges
Stefano Baroni, Giulia Galli, Xavier Andrade, Nicola Marzari

Session 7:      Non-linear phenomena
Carsten Ullrich, André D. Bandrauk, Daniel Neuhauser

Session 8:      Biological applications
Filipp Furche, Paolo Carloni, Dage Sundholm

Session 9:      Spectroscopy
Angel Rubio, Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, Alberto Castro, Elisa Molinari

* To be confirmed

_More Informations_

Application Deadline: Applications for this meeting must be submitted by
June 14, 2009.  Please look at the following web page for more
information

 http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2009&program=timedepen

or write an email to

 marques@tddft.org