14th International Workshop on
Computational Physics and Materials Science:
Total Energy and Force Methods
8 - 10 January 2009
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The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Leonardo Building
Trieste
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Jointly organized by:
ICTP and all its offices will be closed from December 23rd (2008)
until January 6th (2009) [included].
During that period, it will be impossible to reach the workshop
secretary. Please make sure to arrange your travel and, most
importantly, housing before that date.
This Workshop will follow the series started in Oxford, U.K. (1983)
and continued in Braunschweig, Germany (1984) and in Trieste, Italy
(1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and
2007). Following the tradition of the previous meetings, the Workshop
will be devoted to recent advances in computational condensed matter
physics and materials science, based on realistic calculations of the
electronic structure of complex systems.
Conference announcement
The workshop program will occupy three full days, beginning
in the morning on Thursday 8 January and concluding at the
end of the afternoon on Saturday 10 January.
The poster announcement of the conference can be found
here.
Please see also the official ICTP conference website
here.
You can register for the conference following this
link.
Organizers
Ralph GEBAUER (ICTP Trieste), local organizer
Francesco MAURI (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
David VANDERBILT (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA)
Workshop programme
A preliminary programme of the workshop can be found here.
Invited Speakers
Ali Alavi (Cambridge, UK): Electron correlation via path-counting
Claudio Attaccalite (San Sebastian, Spain): Electron correlation in graphene: band structure and electron-phonon interaction from GW
Lilia Boeri (Max Plank, Stuttgard, Germany): Pnictides superconductors
Roberto Car (Princeton, US): Quantum effects in water with path integrals
Davide Ceresoli (MIT, US): Orbital magnetisation: ferromagnetic metals and EPR g-tensor
Ron Cohen (Carnegie Institution, US): Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Behavior at Extreme Conditions
Ismaila Dabo (Universite Paris-Est, France): First-principles electrochemistry for fuel cells and batteries
Rosa di Felice (Modena, Italy): Electronic structure in DNA
Abhishek Dhar (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore India): Thermal transport in low dimensional systems
Davide Donadio (Davis, US): Thermal transport at the nanoscale
Zhong Fang (CAS, Beijing, China): LDA+Gutzwiller method
Giulia Galli (UCD, US): Efficient calculation of dielectric matrices for GW
Borje Johansson (Uppsala, Sweden): Modeling materials at high pressure for Earth Sciences
Jeff Neaton (Molecular Foundry, Berkeley, US): Electronic transport in nanostructures
Huy-Viet Nguyen (Sissa, Trieste): Efficient calculation of
RPA and RPA+ correlation energy of real systems
Beate Paulus (Berlin): Explicitly correlated ab initio methods for metals
Chris Pickard (St. Andrews, UK): Predicting new crystal phases ex-nihilo
Gianni Profeta (Universita dell'Aquila, Italy): Hydrogen Superconductivity and other superconductors
Lucia Reining (Ecole Polytecnique, Paris, France): Photoemission and optical absorption of correlated systems
Karsten Reuter (Fritz-Haber-Institute, Berlin, Germany): Multiscale modeling approaches to surface chemistry and catalysis
Gian-Marco Rignanese (Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium): GW for band offsets
Jose Soler (Univ. Atonome Madrid, Spain): Van der Waals forces within DFT
Young-Woo Son (Korea Institute for Advanced Study): Energy Gaps in Graphene nanoribbons and related problems
Geoffrey Stenuit (Sissa, Trieste, Italy): GW with Wannier functions
Troy Van Voorhis (MIT, US): Constrained Density functional theory and self-interaction
Alex Zettl (University of California at Berkeley, US):
Keynote talk in honor of Steve Louie's 60th birthday
The preliminary programme of the workshop is available here.
Contributed Posters
During the activity there will be one or more poster sessions. If you
want to present a poster, please indicate this in the corresponding
field of the
online registration.
An abstract of the poster must be sent to the workshop secretary no
later than 20 November 2008 in order to prepare the booklet.
You can download a template for the abstract in
.doc or in
.tex format.
Please send your abstract to the workshop secretary at the following
address: smr2014[at]ictp.it. Please submit the abstract either
in pdf or in doc format.
Deadlines:
19 September 2008 Registration, if requesting funds (participants from
developing countries only) or if VISA assistance is needed
1 November 2008 Registration, if NOT requesting funds
20 November 2008 Submission of abstracts
Registration:
Attendance is open and free, but it is necessary to register
on a first-come, first-served basis (room capacity constrains
us to a maximum of 300 participants, including the speakers).
To register, please follow this
link.
Coming to Trieste:
General information about ICTP and how to come to Trieste can be found
here.