The list of confirmed invited speakers in now online!

The schedule of events is now updated!

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NOTE

GREAT NEWS!! Abstracts updated on May 31st, 2011

A. Electronic structure techniques for topological insulators

Arun Bansil – Northeastern U – Electronic Structure and Modeling of Highly Resolved Spectroscopies in Topological Insulators and Other Complex Materials

David Vanderbilt – Rutgers U – Orbital magnetoelectric effects and topological insulators

Charlie Kane – UPenn – Topological Insulators and Topological Band Theory

B. New Density Functionals

Zhong Fang – Institute of Physics CAS – LDA+Gutzwiller method for correlated electron systems

Sangeeta Sharma – MPI-Halle – Treatment of strongly correlated systems within the framework of reduced density matrix functional theory

Gustavo Scuseria – Rice U – Symmetry breaking and restoration

Martin Head-Gordon – U.C. Berkeley – Post-modern valence bond theory

C. New approaches to electronic quantum Monte Carlo

Ali Alavi – Cambridge U – Quantum Monte Carlo approach to the Full CI problem

Henry Krakauer – College of William+Mary – Auxiliary-field QMC: recent methodological developments and applications to real materials

Lubos Mitas – North Carolina State U – Quantum Monte Carlo: structure of many-body fermion nodes and spins as dynamical variables

Sandro Sorella – SISSA, Trieste, IT – Efficient calculation of forces by quantum Monte Carlo

D. Harnessing GPUs for efficient electronic structure computing

Ken Esler – Stone Ridge Technology – Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Real Materials on GPU Clusters

Robert J. Harrison – Oak Ridge Natl Labs – Paths for computational chemistry to the exascale

E. The GW method for correlated modeling of excitations

Georgy Samsonidze – UC Berkeley – Unoccupied continuum and resonant orbitals in GW quasiparticle calculations

Lucia Reining – Ecole Polytechnique – Satellite structure in electronic spectra

Dario Rocca – UC Davis – Solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation without empty electronic states

F. Orbital localization and DMFT

Xiaofeng Qian – MIT – Exploring quantum transport and chemical bonding using ab initio quasiatomic orbitals

Richard Martin – U Illinois Urbana-Champaign

G. General: Connecting electronic structure to research beyond it

Tom Clune – NASA – Managing Complex Scientific Applications - A Climate Modeling Perspective

Chris Murray – UPenn – Building with artificial atoms: Emergent properties in multi-component nanocrystal superlattices

Schedule information

ES-11 activities (still subject to minor changes):

Registration

• 3-7PM Registration at Harrison College House
• 7-9PM Opening Reception and Panel Discussions 1 and 2

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

8AM -- 9AM Breakfast at Chemistry building
• *** New density functionals (part 1) and Climate Modeling
9:00AM       Gustavo Scuseria
9:30AM       Martin Head-Gordon
10:00AM      Tom Clune
10:30AM      Coffee break

• *** Experimental probes of electronic structure and orbital localization
11:00AM      Chris Murray
11:30AM      Xiaofeng Qian
12-1:30PM    Lunch

• *** Electronic structure techniques for topological insulators
1:30PM       Charlie Kane
2:00PM       Arun Bansil
2:30PM       David Vanderbilt
3:00PM-5:00  Coffee break and Poster Session 1
7:00PM-9:00  Reception and Panel Discussions 3 and 4

Wednesday,June 8, 2011

8AM -- 9AM Breakfast at Chemistry building
• *** Quantum Monte Carlo (part 1) and DMFT
9:00AM       Ali Alavi
9:30AM       Sandro Sorella
10:00AM      Richard Martin
10:30AM      Coffee break

• *** Harnessing GPUs for efficient electronic structure computing
11:00AM      Ken Esler
11:30AM      Robert Harrison
12-1:30PM    Lunch

• *** The GW method and correlated modeling of excitations
1:30PM       Georgy Samsonidze
2:00PM       Lucia Reining
2:30PM       Dario Rocca
3:00PM-5:00 Coffee break and Poster Session 2
6:00PM-10   Banquet at Penn University Museum

Thursday,June 9, 2011

8AM -- 9AM Breakfast at Chemistry building
• *** New density functionals (part 2) and QMC (part 2)
9:00AM       Zhong Fang
9:30AM       Lubos Mitas
10:00AM     Sangeeta Sharma
10:30AM     Coffee break
11:00AM     Henry Krakauer
11:30AM     TBA
12-1:30PM  Lunch
1:30PM       Depart

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

1. Collaborative software building in the US
2. New functionality: Innovations maturing, ready for widespread use
3. Recognizing and rewarding tool building
4. Fostering a community of methodology innovation