Time dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and Applications

2nd International Workshop and School   

2006, August 27 - September 11

Invited Talks

Andreas Goerling (Munich, Germany) - Exact exchange spin current density functional methods
Carsten Ullrich (Missouri, USA) - Time-dependent generating-coordinate method
Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl (Graz, Austria) - The role of core states on the excitation spectra of solids
Esa Rasanen (Berlin, Germany) - Optimal laser control of quantum rings
E. J. Baerends (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Avoided crossings of excited state surfaces and vibronic coupling in TDDFT
Eckhard Pehlke (Kiel, Germany) - Molecular dynamics simulations of non-adiabatic processes
Deborah Prezzi (Modena, Italy) - The role of excitons in the optical properties of carbon nanotubes
Dmitrij Rappoport (Karlsruhe, Germany) - Practical aspects of molecular TDDFT calculations
Gianluca Stefanucci (Lund, Sweden) - Classical Nuclear Motion in Quantum Transport
Ivano Tavernelli (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Juerg Hutter (Zurich, Switzerland) - TDDFT calculations with the Gaussian augmented-plane wave approach
Ludger Wirtz (Lille, France) - Electronic excitations in hexagonal layered systems (C and BN)
Mark Casida (Grenoble, France) - Two-electron excitations in TDDFT
Marti Pi (Barcelona, Spain) - TDDFT description of electronic systems in semiconductor heterostructures
Massimiliano di Ventra (San Diego, USA) - Transport in nanoscale systems: new approaches to an old problem
Matteo Gatti (Paris, France) - Nonlocality and frequency dependence of effective potentials
Myrta Grüning (Louvain la Neuve, Belgium) - The effect of nonlocality on the band gap within density functional theory
Neepa Maitra (New York, USA) - Some challenges for time-dependent density functional approximations - and some partial solutions.
Nektarios Lathiotakis (Berlin, Germany) - Reduced density matrix functionals for finite and periodic systems
Patrick Rinke (Berlin, Germany) - The band gap of InN and ScN: a quasiparticle energy study based on exact-exchange density-functional theory
Rex Godby (York, UK) - Exchange-correlation functionals and kernels for conductance and polarisation
Rodolfo del Sole (Rome, Italy) - Calculation of optical properties of complex systems within TDDFT
Roi Baer (Jerusalem, Israel) - Nonadiabatic functionals and their effects on electron dynamics in molecules and metal clusters
Silvana Botti (Paris, France) - How do rewritable DVDs work:optical properties of phase-change materials
Stefano Baroni (Trieste, Italy) - Turbocharging time-dependent density-functional theory with Lanczos chains
Stephan Kummel (Bayreuth, Germany) - Strong-field excitations and derivative discontinuities in TDDFT
Yoshi Miyamoto (NEC, Japan) - TDDFT-MD simulation of nano-carbons: decay dynamics of hot-carriers and electronic shakeup by high-speed ions/atoms

Other participants (besides the teachers and school participants)

Aldo Humberto Romero Castro (CINVESTAV, Mexico)
Barry Dunietz (Ann Arbor, USA)
Carla Molteni (London, UK)
Carlos Fiolhais (Coimbra, Portugal)
Claudio Attaccalite (Lille, France)
Eleonora Luppi (Paris, France)
Eneritz Muguruza Gonzalez (London, UK)
Michael Mundt (Bayreuth, Germany)
Nicholas Lambropoulos (CSIRO Energy Technology, Newcastle, Australia)
Yoshitaka Tateyama (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)