Scientific Calendar Event



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  • Thursday, 8 January 2009
    • 08:00 - 08:50 REGISTRATION and ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 08:00 REGISTRATION and ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES 50'
    • 08:50 - 09:00 Welcoming Remarks
      • 08:50 Welcoming Remarks 10'
        Speaker: K.R. Sreenivasan ICTP Director, and Organizers
    • 09:00 - 09:35 Bridging the size gap between density-functional and many-body perturbation theory
      • 09:00 Bridging the size gap between density-functional and many-body perturbation theory 35'
        Speaker: Geoffrey Stenuit (CNR-INFM Democritos, Trieste, Italy)
    • 09:35 - 10:10 Efficient evaluation of dielectric matrices for ab-initio calculations of excited state properties and correlation energies
      • 09:35 Efficient evaluation of dielectric matrices for ab-initio calculations of excited state properties and correlation energies 35'
        Speaker: Giulia Galli (UC Davis, USA)
    • 10:10 - 10:45 Efficient and accurate calculation of exact exchange and RPA correlation energies in ACFD theory
      • 10:10 Efficient and accurate calculation of exact exchange and RPA correlation energies in ACFD theory 35'
        Speaker: Huy-Viet Nguyen (Hanoi National University of Education, Viet Nam and SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
    • 10:45 - 11:30 Coffee Break + Registration
      • 10:45 Coffee Break + Registration 45'
    • 11:30 - 12:05 Correlation in electronic excitations
      • 11:30 Correlation in electronic excitations 35'
        Speaker: Lucia Reining (École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
    • 12:05 - 12:40 Electron correlation in graphene: band structure and electron-phonon interaction from GW
      • 12:05 Electron correlation in graphene: band structure and electron-phonon interaction from GW 35'
        Speaker: Claudio Attaccalite (U. del Pais Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain)
    • 12:40 - 14:40 Lunch
      • 12:40 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:40 - 15:15 First-principles electrochemistry
      • 14:40 First-principles electrochemistry 35'
        Speaker: Ismaila Dabo (INRIA and Université Paris-Est, France)
    • 15:15 - 15:50 Ab-initio random structure searching: A window on structure space
      • 15:15 Ab-initio random structure searching: A window on structure space 35'
        Speaker: Chris Pickard (St. Andrews, UK)
    • 15:50 - 16:35 Coffee Break + Registration
      • 15:50 Coffee Break + Registration 45'
    • 16:35 - 17:10 Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of behavior at extreme conditions
      • 16:35 Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of behavior at extreme conditions 35'
        Speaker: Ron Cohen (Carnegie Institution, USA)
    • 17:30 - 18:15 Poster setup at Adriatico Guest House (Lower level 1)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 17:30 Poster setup at Adriatico Guest House (Lower level 1) 45'
    • 18:30 - 21:00 Poster session / free discussions
      Informal buffet for all participants during the poster session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 18:30 Poster session / free discussions 2h30'
  • Friday, 9 January 2009
    • 08:50 - 09:35 Welcoming Remarks and Presentation of the Award
      • 08:50 Welcoming Remarks and Presentation of the Award 45'
        Speaker: K.R. Sreenivasan (ICTP Director)
    • 09:35 - 10:10 LDA+Gutzwiller method for correlated electron systems
      • 09:35 LDA+Gutzwiller method for correlated electron systems 35'
        Speaker: Zhong Fang (Center for Quantum Simulation Sciences, CAS, Beijing, China)
    • 10:10 - 10:55 Coffee Break
      • 10:10 Coffee Break 45'
    • 10:55 - 11:30 Thermal transport at the nanoscale
      • 10:55 Thermal transport at the nanoscale 35'
        Speaker: Davide Donadio (UC Davis, USA)
    • 11:30 - 12:05 First-principles studies of single-molecule junction conductance: Links, length, and switching
      • 11:30 First-principles studies of single-molecule junction conductance: Links, length, and switching 35'
        Speaker: Jeff Neaton (Molecular Foundry, LBNL, Berkeley, USA)
    • 12:05 - 14:40 Lunch
      • 12:05 Lunch 2h35'
    • 14:40 - 15:15 Fermion Quantum Monte Carlo in slater determinant spaces: A game of life, death and annihilation
      • 14:40 Fermion Quantum Monte Carlo in slater determinant spaces: A game of life, death and annihilation 35'
        Speaker: Ali Alavi (Cambridge, UK)
    • 15:15 - 15:50 Explicitly correlated ab initio methods for metals
      • 15:15 Explicitly correlated ab initio methods for metals 35'
        Speaker: Beate Paulus (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
    • 15:50 - 16:35 Coffee Break
      • 15:50 Coffee Break 45'
    • 16:30 - 17:05 Constrained DFT for electron transfer and reaction barrier heights
      • 16:30 Constrained DFT for electron transfer and reaction barrier heights 35'
        Speaker: Troy Van Voorhis (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
    • 17:10 - 17:45 Efficient first-principles van der Waals density functional forces
      • 17:10 Efficient first-principles van der Waals density functional forces 35'
        Speaker: Jose Soler (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
    • 17:45 - 18:30 Poster setup at Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 17:45 Poster setup at Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1) 45'
    • 18:30 - 21:00 Poster session / free discussions
      Informal buffet for all participants during the poster session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 18:30 Poster session / free discussions 2h30'
  • Saturday, 10 January 2009
    • 08:50 - 09:00 Introduction of Keynote Speaker
      • 08:50 Introduction of Keynote Speaker 10'
        Speaker: Organizers
    • 09:00 - 09:50 Exploiting the Electronic, Thermal, and Mechanical Properties of Carbon and BN Nanostructures
      Keynote talk in honor of STEVEN LOUIE's 60th Birthday
      • 09:00 Exploiting the Electronic, Thermal, and Mechanical Properties of Carbon and BN Nanostructures 50'
        Speaker: Alex Zettl (UC Berkeley, USA)
    • 09:50 - 10:25 Band offsets from many-body perturbation theory
      • 09:50 Band offsets from many-body perturbation theory 35'
        Speaker: Gian-Marco Rignanese (Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
    • 10:25 - 11:00 Energy gaps in graphene superstructures
      • 10:25 Energy gaps in graphene superstructures 35'
        Speaker: Young-Woo Son (KIAS, Seoul, Korea)
    • 11:00 - 11:45 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 45'
    • 11:45 - 12:20 Towards an error-controlled multi-scale catalysis modeling
      • 11:45 Towards an error-controlled multi-scale catalysis modeling 35'
        Speaker: Karsten Reuter (FHI-MPG, Berlin, Germany)
    • 12:20 - 12:55 Computational investigation of DNA derivatives for nano-electronics
      • 12:20 Computational investigation of DNA derivatives for nano-electronics 35'
        Speaker: Rosa di Felice (INFM-CNR, Modena, Italy)
    • 12:55 - 14:40 Lunch
      • 12:55 Lunch 1h45'
    • 14:40 - 15:15 DFT studies of FeAs superconductors
      • 14:40 DFT studies of FeAs superconductors 35'
        Speaker: Lilia Boeri (MPI-FKF, Stuttgart, Germany)
    • 15:15 - 15:50 Hydrogen superconductivity and other superconductors
      • 15:15 Hydrogen superconductivity and other superconductors 35'
        Speaker: Gianni Profeta (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy)
    • 15:50 - 16:35 Coffee Break
      • 15:50 Coffee Break 45'
    • 16:35 - 17:10 Ab-initio pseudopotential calculations of the orbital magnetization
      • 16:35 Ab-initio pseudopotential calculations of the orbital magnetization 35'
        Speaker: Davide Ceresoli (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
    • 17:10 - 17:45 Quantum protons in hydrogen bonded systems
      • 17:10 Quantum protons in hydrogen bonded systems 35'
        Speaker: Roberto Car (Princeton U., Princeton, USA)
    • 17:45 - 17:55 Concluding Remarks
      • 17:45 Concluding Remarks 10'