CMSN Workshop on Excited State Properties and Response Functions
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