Talks+&+Discussions

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pfaffians and many-body nodes of ground and excited states** || All interested ||
 * ~ Date ||~ Time ||~  __Place*__ ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Mon, Oct 5 || 12:15pm || Aud || //Kieron Burke// || **The Breadth and Depth of Modern Electronic Structure Theory** || Blackboard Lunch Seminar**;** all scientists welcome. ||
 * || 2:00 pm || SSR || //Coordinators// || **Organizational Meeting** || All interested. ||
 * Tue, Oct 6 || Noon ||  || //ALL// || **Lunch at the cafe across from KITP** || All interested ||
 * || 2pm || SSR || //ALL// || **Another organizational meeting** || All (interested or not). ||  ||
 * Wed, Oct 7 || 10:30 || Aud || //Lubos Mitas// || **Electronic structure quantum Monte Carlo:
 * || 2pm || FR || //ALL// || **Discusson:** @Gaps, EXX, & hybrids || All (interested or not). ||  ||
 * Thu, Oct 8 || 10:30am || Aud || //Suchismita Guha// || **Can theory help in understanding photoexcitations in organic semiconductors? An experimentalist's perspective.** || Abstract ||
 * || 2.30pm || Aud ||  || **Discussion:** @van der Waals interactions ||   ||
 * Fri, Oct 9 || 10:30am || Aud || //Matthias Scheffler// || **At the fifth rung of Jacob's ladder: closer to heaven or to hell?** ||  ||
 * || 1pm || SSR ||  || **More van der Waals and open discussion** ||   ||

a theorist view, focus on conjugated polymers || [|Caldas-KITPformal2009.pdf] ||
 * ~ Date ||~ Time ||~  __Place*__ ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Mon, Oct 12 || 2pm || SSR || //ALL// || **Discussion:** Oxides || All interested ||
 * Tue, Oct 13 || 2pm || SSR || //ALL interested// || **Discussion:** Relationships among methods || All interested ||
 * Wed, Oct 14 || 2pm || SSR || //All// || More discussion about relationships || All interested ||
 * Thu, Oct 15 || 2pm || Aud || //Marilia Caldas// || Challenges in understanding defects in organic materials:
 * Fri, Oct 16 || 2pm || SSR || //ALL interested// || Open || All interested ||
 * || 4pm || ESB 1001 || //Patrick Rinke// || Theoretical Spectroscopy - getting to know your favorite group-III-nitride || MD/MRL colloquium ||

transport** || Formal talk || //Roberto Car// || **Some lessons from the KS exact exchange potential at metal surfaces**
 * ~ **Date** ||~ Time ||~  __Place*__ ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||~  ||
 * Mon, Oct 19 || 10:30 am || Aud || //Kieron Burke// || **Tutorial on DFT for molecular electronics** || Informal talk ||
 * || 2pm || SSR || //ALL// || **Discussion (open)** || All ||
 * Tue, Oct 20 || 2pm || SSR || //Stefan Blügel// || **Spintronics** || Informal talk ||
 * Wed, Oct 21 || 10:30 am || Aud || //Giulia Galli// || **Thermal Transport** || Formal talk ||
 * || 2pm || SSR || //ALL// || **Discussion: Thermal Transport and related** || All interested ||
 * Thu, Oct 22 || 10:30 am || Aud || //Stefan Kurth// || **Multiple steady states and derivative discontinuities in time-dependent
 * || 2pm || Aud || //Rex Godby// || **GW-like approaches to quantum transport** || Informal talk ||
 * Fri, Oct 23 || 10:30 am || Aud || //Carsten Ullrich// || **Spin Coulomb Drag** || Informal talk ||
 * || 2pm || SSR || //Txema Pitarke//,
 * Anharmonicity** || A few slides (15 minutes approx) for discussion ||

(some slides from Rex Godby; Kris Delaney [UCSB]; Lucia Reining; Ferdi Aryasetiawan; any others?) || Discussion || discussion continued || Discussion || Lucia Reining: 15 min on "reduced quantities" || All interested ||
 * ~ **Date** ||~ Time ||~  __Place*__ ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Mon, Oct 26 || 2pm || SSR || //ALL// || **Discussion:**Some more on self-consistent GW
 * Tue, Oct 27 || 10:30 || SSR || Ferdi, Kris || GW and self-consistency?
 * || 2pm || SSR || //Patrick Rinke// || **On LDA+U, //GW//, and //f//-electron oxides** || Informal talk ||
 * Wed, Oct 28 || 10:30pm || SSR || //Stefan Kurth// || **Overhauser's spin density wave in Hartree-Fock, RDMFT, and exact-exchange spin-DFT** || Informal talk ||
 * || 2pm || SSR || //Ken Jordan// || **Dispersion interactions in water clusters** ||  ||
 * Thu, Oct 29 || 10:30 am || Aud || //John Rehr// || **Real-space Green's function approach for electronic, vibrational and optical properties** || Formal talk ||
 * || 2pm || Aud || //Carsten Ullrich// || **Tutorial: TDDFT for excitations in finite and extended systems** || Informal talk ||
 * Fri, Oct 30 || 10:30 am || Aud || Franca Manghi || **e-e interaction in strongly - and not so strongly correlated materials** || informal talk ||
 * || 2pm || SSR || //ALL// || **Open discussion**

**The full schedule of KITP events can be found [|here].**
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 * ~ **__Date__** ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Nov 9 || 2pm || SSR || //ALL// || **Organizational meeting and Carlos Garcia-Cervera** Asymptotic-based sublinear scaling methods for electronic structure computations of materials || Informal talk ||
 * Tues Nov 10 || 10:30 || Aud || Walter Thiel || QM/MM Methods: Current Developments and Applications || formal talk ||
 * || 2pm || SSR || Paolo Carloni || First Principle Electronic Structure Calculations for Molecular and Cell Biology: a Perspective from Trieste || Informal ||
 * Weds, Nov 11 || 2pm || SSR || All || QM/MM discussion ||  ||
 * Thu, Nov 12 || 10:30 || Aud || Robert van Leeuwen || Correlated time-dependent transport with the Kadanoff-Baym equations || Formal talk ||
 * || 2pm || Aud || Rudy Magyar || Exact solution to 1D Hydrogen, Hubbard model, and TDDFT || Informal talk ||
 * Fri, Nov 13 || 10:30 || Aud || Ulf von Barth || Correlation energy functional and potential from time-dependent exact exchange theory. || Formal talk ||
 * || 2pm || SSR || //ALL// || **Open discussion** || All interested ||

November 16-20: Focus week on Theoretical Spectroscopy (organiser: Rex Godby)
further contributions may be flagged here, with slides linked if desired ||  || - Kieron Burke (30 minutes) - further contributions may be flagged here, with slides linked if desired ||  || Kris Delaney: 15 min on "[|GW Calculations: Total Energies and Input Dependence] " ||   ||
 * ~ **__Date__** ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon || Nov 16 || 10:30am || Aud || Robert van Leeuwen || Conserving approximations in TDDFT: connections to many-body perturbation theory ||  ||
 * Mon || Nov 16 || 2:00pm || SSR || Ulf von Barth || - to lead discussion on "guiding principles" in theoretical spectroscopy:
 * Tue || Nov 17 || 10:30am || Aud || John Rehr || Real-time approaches for linear and nonlinear optical response ||  ||
 * Tue || Nov 17 || 2:00pm || SSR ||  || Discussion on TDDFT functionals for spectroscopy of finite systems, including
 * Wed || Nov 18 || 10:30am || Aud || Paolo Umari || Non resonant Hyper-Raman spectra from first principles: application to vitreous silica ||  ||
 * Wed || Nov 18 || 2:00pm || - ||  || No focus-week talk - KITP General Colloquium: see [] ||   ||   ||
 * Thu || Nov 19 || 10:30am || Aud || Werner Hanke || Superconductivity in the iron pnictides: from DFT to a functional-renormalization-group study ||  ||
 * Thu || Nov 19 || 2:00pm || Aud || Wei Ku || Local approach for excitations in strongly correlated materials: Frenkel excitons and their propagation ||  ||
 * Fri || Nov 20 || 10:30am || Aud || Gian-Marco Rignanese || Vibrational Spectroscopy ||  ||
 * Fri || Nov 20 || 2:00pm || SSR ||  || General discussion on theoretical spectroscopy, including


 * ~ **__Date__** ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon || Nov 23 || 10.30am || Aud || Neepa Maitra || Some challenges in TDDFT and some possible solutions in phase-space || outside visitor ||
 * ||  || 2:00pm || SSR || Tom Berlijn || Wannier Function Based First-Principles Method for Disordered Systems ||   ||
 * Tue || Nov 24 || 10.30am || Aud || Timo Thonhauser || Berry-phase Modern Theory of Orbital Magnetization ||  ||
 * ||  || 2:00pm || ?? || Kieron Burke || The unreasonable accuracy of asymptotic expansions: Why density functional theory works || KITP seminar ||
 * Wed || Nov 25 || 10.30am || Aud || Carla Molteni || Modelling excited states in biological chromophore: from TDDFT to GW+BSE ||  ||
 * Wed || Nov 25 || 2:00pm ||  || Any || Open discussion ||   ||
 * Thu || Nov 26 ||  ||   ||   ||   || Thanksgiving Holiday ||
 * Fri || Nov 27 ||  ||   ||   ||   || Thanksgiving Holiday ||


 * ~ **__Date__** ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon || Nov 30 || 10:30am || Aud || Hong Jiang || Localized and itinerant states in a unified picture beyond DFT ||  ||
 * Mon || Nov 30 || 2:00pm || SSR ||  || Discussion "beyond DFT" || please upload your slides ||
 * Tue || Dec 1 || 10:30am || Aud || Sergey Savrasov || Electronic Structure Calculations with Dynamical Mean Field Theory ||  ||
 * Tue || Dec 1 || 2:00pm || SSR ||  || Discussion "beyond DFT" || please upload your slides ||
 * Wed || Dec 2 || 10:30am || Aud || Mark van Schilfgaarde || The Quasiparticle Self-Consist GW Approximation - Prospects for Improvement ||  ||
 * Wed || Dec 2 || 2:00pm || SSR ||  || Discussion "beyond DFT" || please upload your slides ||
 * Thu || Dec 3 || 10:30am || SSR || Kai-Ming Ho || Beyond LDA - The Gutzwiller Approach ||  ||
 * Thu || Dec 3 || 2:00pm || Aud ||  || Discussion "beyond DFT" || please upload your slides ||
 * Fri || Dec 4 || 10:30am || SSR ||  || open discussion ||   ||
 * Fri || Dec 4 || 2:00pm || SSR ||  || Discussion "beyond DFT" || please upload your slides ||

Toward an ab-initio description of strongly correlated systems** ||  ||
 * ~ **__Date__** ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon || Dec 7 || 10.30am || Aud ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || 2:00pm || SSR || //Ann E. Mattsson// || **Multiscale Dynamic Materials Modeling MS 1322** ||   ||
 * Tue || Dec 8 || 10:30am || Aud ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || 2:00pm || SSR ||   || **Discussion on AM05 functional** ||   ||
 * Wed || Dec 9 || 10:30am || Aud ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || 2:00pm || SSR ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Thu || Dec 10 || 10:30am || Aud || //Hardy Gross// || **Reduced-density-matrix-functional theory:
 * ||  || 3:30pm || SSR ||   || **Discussion** ||   ||
 * Fri || Dec 11 || 10:30am || SSR ||  || **Discussion on "impurity orbitals in materials"** ||   ||
 * ||  || 2:00pm || SSR ||   || **Discussion** ||   ||


 * ~ **__Date__** ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Topic__ ||~ __Speakers__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon || Dec 14 || 10.30am || SSR || The fastest RPA in the west || Filipp Furche || Informal talk ||
 * ||  || 2:00pm || SSR || Which code to use? Best of ... || Risto Nieminen, Volker Blum, Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl || Discussion ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || Best of ... || Risto Nieminen ||   ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || Best of FHI-aims || Volker Blum ||   ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || Best of exciting || Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl || [[file:exciting_KITP.pdf]] ||
 * Tue || Dec 15 || 10:30am || Aud || Scalable Algorithms for Electronic Structure Calculations || Francois Gygi || Formal talk ||
 * ||  || 2:00pm || SSR || Excited states || Mark van Schilfgaarde, Stephan Sagmeister[[file:Sagmeister_KITP_matrix-elements.pdf]], Xinguo Ren, [[file:discussion-LAPW-GW.pdf| Hong Jiang]], John Rehr || Discussion ||
 * Wed || Dec 16 || 10:30am || SSR || Large scale computing, speedup, scaling || Volker Blum, Kieron Burke[[file:PDFT2.pdf]][[file:PDFT2.pptx]], Francois Gigy || Discussion ||
 * ||  || 2:00pm || SSR ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Thu || Dec 17 || 10:30am || SSR || Code sharing, organization, I/O || Rex Godby[[file:ETSF talk at KITP Dec 2009.pdf]], Christian Meisenbichler || Discussion ||
 * ||  || 2:00pm || SSR || Challenges: multiplets, RIXS, PES, EMCD, NMR… || all || Discussion ||
 * Fri || Dec 18 || 10:30am || SSR ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || 2:00pm || SSR ||   ||   ||   ||

***Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room** **FR=Founders' Room** The official KITP schedule of events for the current week is available [|here]. While it is not as complete or up-to-date as the present page, it does contain activities which are not part of the "Excitations" program, including talks of general interest (denoted with a pointing finger). ||  ||