CMSN Workshop on Excited State Properties and Response Functions

Executive Summary

Thursday, October 18, 2001

Welcome by:

Steven Louie and Michel Van Hove (UC Berkeley and LBNL), Horst Simon (NERSC, LBNL)

Session A Fundamental Theory

George Sawatzky (University of British Columbia); Defect states, both extended as in surfaces and interfaces, and local as in impurities in correlated systems.

Steven G. Louie (UC Berkeley and LBNL); Team EEC Report: Progress in Electron-hole Interaction and Optical Excitations

Session B Experimental Processes and Applications

John Rehr (University of Washington); Team EPA Report: Developments in x-ray spectroscopy codes: many-body theory vs TDLDA

Eric Shirley (NIST); Intrinsic birefringence and loss functions.

Hubert Ebert (University of Munich); Theoretical description of magneto-optical effects in the visible and X-ray regime

Session C Electronic Excitations and Time Dependent Phenomena

Jim Chelikowsky (University of Minnesota); Team TDP Report: TDLDA Methods Applied to Confined Systems

Andrew Canning (LBNL); NERSC update and new code developments

Richard M. Martin (University of Illinois); Calculations of nonlinear susceptibilities

Session D Brief Reports

Mei-Yin Chou (Georgia Tech.); Electronic structure of metal hydrides.

Michel Van Hove (LBNL and UC Davis); Coherence and Incoherence in Photoemission

Peter Langhoff (Indiana University, AFRL and UC San Diego); Theory of Excited Electronic states of Matter

 

Friday, October 19, 2001

Session E Brief Reports

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi (UC Berkeley and LBNL); Forces for excited states within the Bethe-Salpeter formalism.

Alexei Ankudinov (University of Washington, Seattle); Full potential real space multiple scattering theory.

Daniel Cociorva (Ohio State University); Quasiparticle calculations for semiconductor interfaces and defects.

Igor Vasiliev (University of Illinois); Optical properties of silicon nanoclusters with oxidized and reconstructed surfaces

Leeor Kronik (University of Minnesota); Orbital-resolved cross-section effects in photoelectron spectra of Ti02.

Wai-Yim Ching (University of Missouri-Kansas City); Core exciton, valence exciton and the optical properties of Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Y3A15012).

Lorin Benedict (LLNL); Screening in electron-hole exchange interaction

Wei Ku (UC Davis); Ab Initio Investigation of Collective Charge Excitations in MgB2

Prof. Sokrates Pantelides (Vanderbilt University); Time dependent response, linear and non-linear optical response