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From: Miguel Marques <mmarques(a)lpmcn.univ-lyon1.fr>
Date: Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:15 AM
Subject: 4th school & workshop on TDDFT: Prospects and Applications
To: olivares(a)fas.harvard.edu
Dear Colleague,
Please find below the announcement for the 4th school & international
workshop "Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and
Applications". We would appreciate if you could forward this message
to anyone who might be interested.
Thank you,
Miguel Marques, Fernando Nogueira, Angel Rubio, and E.K.U. Gross
P.S: Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this
announcement.
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4th "Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and Applications"
January 2-15th 2010
Benasque Center for Physics, Spain
Organizers:
*) E. K. U. Gross
*) Miguel A. L. Marques
*) Fernando Nogueira
*) Angel Rubio
For registration and further details go to:
http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2009tddft/
and
http://www.tddft.org/TDDFT2010/2010tddft.htm
Scientific Motivation for this event:
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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
(chromophores), transport phenomena, optical spectra of solids and
low-dimensional structures (as nanotubes, polymers, surfaces...).
Despite the rising interest in the calculation of excited state properties
of
quantum systems, the techniques being used have usually been just one of the
topics covered in international meetings, schools and workshops. This means
that
scientists new to the field face difficulties in grasping its many aspects
that
could be alleviated if they could attend a school on time-dependent density
functional theory (TDDFT) or Many-Body Techniques (MBT).
The school is followed by an international workshop, where the new
developments of TDDFT and Many-Body Techniques for the calculation of
excitations are discussed. Students attending the school are encouraged
to attend the workshop, so they can get in contact with state of the art
research in the field. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together
leading
experts in all these fields with different backgrounds, like density
functional,
many-body, nuclear physics, quantum chemists, and biophysicists. This allows
the exchange of ideas between the different fields and the creation of links
between the traditionally separated communities.
Tentative program for the school:
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The school will be attended by a maximum of around 50 students, and will
last 9
days, with theoretical sessions (mostly) in the mornings and practical
(tutorial) sessions in the afternoons. The theoretical sessions will consist
of
four 45m lectures (including discussions) per day.
The practical sessions will last for 3 hours per day and a computer will be
allocated for every two students. This will allow the students to have some
time every day for studying and talking to the teachers.
The program of the school starts with basic TDDFT, then continues with
more complex theoretical and numerical aspects of TDDFT, and ends with an
outline of some of its many applications. Basic knowledge on ground state
DFT
calculations is required. Also during the school we will address other
approaches to describe excited state properties based on either many-body
perturbation theory or quantum-chemistry schemes.
The preliminary program can be downloaded from
http://www.tddft.org/TDDFT2010/2010tddft.htm
Tentative list of teachers:
--- For the theoretical classes
K. Capelle (Sao Carlos, Brazil) - Current DFT
and C. Ullrich (U Missouri, USA)
Franz Himpsel (USA) - Overview of spectroscopies
A. Castro (FU Berlin, Germany) - Propagation schemes
Optimal control theory
R.W. Godby (York, UK) - Many-Body - GW
E.K.U Gross (FU Berlin, Germany) - TDDFT
M. Head-Gordon (UC Berkeley, USA) - TDDFT as a tool in chemistry
M. Lein (MPI Heidelberg, Germany) - Models for time-dependent
phenomena
X. Lopez (San Sebastian, Spain) - TDDFT as a tool in biophysics
N. Maitra (New York, USA) - Advanced TDDFT
I. Tokatly (San Sebastian, Spain)
or L. Reining (Paris, France) - Many-Body - BSE
R. van Leeuwen (Groningen, The Netherlands) - TDDFT versus Many-Body
Stefano Ossicini (Modena, Italy) - Fraud in Science
--- For the practical sessions
Xavier Andrade (San Sebastian, Spain)
Silvana Botti (Paris, France)
Alberto Castro (Berlin, Germany)
Pablo Garcia (Madrid, Spain)
Andrea Marini (Rome, Italy)
Conor Hogan (Rome, Italy)
Daniele Varsano (Modena, Italy)
Yann Pouillon (San Sebastian, Spain)
Micael Oliveira (Coimbra, Portugal)
During the school we will incentive a close and informal contact between the
students and the teachers. Furthermore, the students will be stimulated to
talk
about their current research activities and future interests. We feel that
this
is an important point, since young scientists should be involved in the
building
up of a strong community.
The preliminary program of the workshop is:
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The 4 day workshop will start January 10, 2010 in the afternoon and will end
January 15 in the morning. It will include both invited talks on key aspects
of TDDFT (45m each), contributed talks (30m) and a poster session. The
tentative
list of invited speakers is:
** Foundations of TDDFT, new developments and challenges
W. Kohn (Santa Barbara, USA)
N. Maitra (City University of New York, USA)
A. Goerling (Munich, Germany)
S. Kuemmel (MPI-Dresden, Germany)
K. Burke (Irvine, USA)
J. Dobson (Brisbane, Australia)
** Experimental challenges
A. Zewail (Pasadena, USA)
F. Krauz (Munich, Germany)
P.B. Corkum (Ottawa, Canada)
G. Gerber (Wuerzburg, Germany) or L. Woeste (Berlin, Germany)
** TD-DMFT, optimal control theory and strong laser fields
O. Gritsenko (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
S. Kummel (Dresden, Germany)
M. Lein (Kassel, Germany)
T. Seidemann (Chicago, USA)
** Excited state dynamics and chemical reactivity
O. Sugino (Tokyo, Japan)
K. Reuter (Berlin, Germany)
J. Hutter (Zurich, Switzerland)
Y. Miyamoto (NEC, Japan)
F. Martin (Madrid, Spain)
** Molecular Transport
T.N. Todorov (Belfast, UK)
R. van Leeuwen (Jyvaskyla, Finland)
R. Car (Princeton, New Jersey, USA)
M. di Ventra (Virginia, USA)
R. Baer (Jerusalem, Israel)
R. Godby (York, UK)
** Applications: nanotubes, quantum dots, nanostructures, solids and
surfaces
S.G. Louie (Berkeley, USA)
R. Nieminen (Helsinki, Finland)
C. Ambrosch-Draxl (Graz, Austria)
M. Scheffler (Berlin, Germany)
G. Kresse (Wien, Austria)
S. Baroni (Trieste, Italy)
** Biological applications
E.J. Baerends (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
I. Tavernelli (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland)
M. Sprik (Cambridge, UK)
F. Furche (Irvine, USA)
Klaus Schulten (Illinois, USA)
Some of the lecturers at the school will also contribute to the workshop.
There will be two contributed talks from the winners of the 2nd Pedro
Pascual Prize
for the best posters presented at the school.
Format of the workshop:
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We plan an informal workshop with sufficient time for discussions. The
informal
character of the talks will be encouraged and presentations which are partly
tutorial, given the mixed character of the audience, are most welcome. The
time
for each talk will be divided into 75% for the presentation plus 25%
discussion.
Speakers will be encouraged to divide their available time into
two separate parts if their topic falls under more than one heading.
Applications/Support:
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All persons who wish to participate should fill out the application form
at
http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2009tddft/
In the comments section, please indicate if you wish to participate in
the Summer Summer School or in the Workshop (or in both).
School only:
As we have a very limited number of places for the school, students
will be selected from among an open pool of applicants who have
demonstrated a strong interest in computational sciences, applied to
chemistry, physics, materials science and biology. Therefore, in order
that we can make a reasonable selection, we ask that *all* candidates
include in the comments section the following information:
*) Date of birth, gender
*) Motivation/Why they want to come (just a couple of lines is
enough)
*) What is their current and previous positions (if PhD or Post-
doc state your supervisor).
We will *not* accept applications that do not include this information.
Furthermore, we will give priority to students willing to participate in
both the Summer School and the Workshop.
We also have a certain number of grants available that cover traveling
and part of the stay in Benasque. If you want to apply for a grant,
please indicate explicitly that you wish to be supported in the comments
section, and explain why (just a couple of lines is enough).
For participants coming from the USA, please check the following address
for support:
http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/travel/