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
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LioqdopHr5ZAmn0GaCQwLUTYoU4ZJuvfrMYE6zCVhqI/edit#gid=0>
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.
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