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Schedule of Events
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
| 3:00 - 7:00 PM | Dorm check-in and Registration (Dupont Hall) |
| 6:00 - 8:00 PM | Reception (Dupont Hall) |
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
| 8:00 - 8:50 AM | Registration - Continental Breakfast (Miller Hall, Brinkley Room) |
| 8:50 - 9:00 AM | Opening Remarks: Dennis Manos, Vice Provost for Research and Graduate/Professional Studies |
Scientific Program (Miller Hall, Brinkley Room)
Experimental and Theoretical Spectroscopy
Session Chair: David Ceperley
| 9:00 - 9:35 AM | Mumtaz Qazilbash | Infrared Spectroscopy and Nanoscale Imaging of the Metal-Insulator Phase Transition in Vanadium Dioxide (abstract) |
| 9:35 - 10:10 AM | Steven Louie | Electronic Excitations in Solids and Nanostructures: GW, GW-BSE, and Beyond (abstract) |
| 10:10 - 10:40 AM | Coffee Break | |
Complex Oxides
Session Chair: Mei-Yin Chou
| 10:40 - 11:15 AM | Chris van de Walle | Complex Oxide Interfaces (abstract) |
| 11:15 - 11:50 AM | Nicole Benedek | Exploring the Structure and Properties of Complex Oxides: New Ideas and Insights from Theory and Simulation (abstract) |
| 11:50 - 1:10 PM | Lunch (Miller Hall, Brinkley Room) | |
New Methods
Session Chair: Stefano Baroni
| 1:10 - 1:45 PM | Roberto Car | Correlated electron calculations with Hartree-Fock scaling (abstract) |
| 1:45 - 2:20 PM | Jiawang Hong | Beyond Piezoelectrics: First-Principles Theory and Calculation of Flexoelectricity (abstract) |
| 2:20 - 3:50 PM | Poster Session I - Coffee (In abstract book, lower-left corner has your poster number) | |
Quantum Monte Carlo
Session Chair: Jeongnim Kim
| 3:50 - 4:25 PM | Cyrus Umrigar | Semistochastic Quantum Monte Carlo -- A Hybrid of Exact Diagonalization and QMC Methods (abstract) |
| 4:25 - 5:00 PM | Saverio Moroni | Forces and Response Functions in QMC (abstract) |
| 6:30 - 7:00 PM | Cocktails (Sadler Center, Tidewater A&B) | |
| 7:00 - 9:30 PM | Conference Banquet (Sadler Center, Tidewater A&B) | |
Thursday, June 13, 2013
| 8:00 - 9:00 AM | Registration - Continental Breakfast (Miller Hall) |
Scientific Program (Miller Hall, Brinkley Room)
Topological Insulators
Session Chair: Enrico Rossi
| 9:00 - 9:35 AM | Ruqian Wu | Generating Topological Insulator Gap in Graphene with Heavy Adatoms (abstract) |
| 9:35 - 10:10 AM | Kevin Garrity | Heavy Adatoms on Magnetic Surfaces: A Search for Chern Insulators (abstract) |
| 10:10 - 10:40 AM | Coffee Break | |
Many-body
Session Chair: Andrew Rappe
| 10:40 - 11:15 AM | Markus Holzmann | Momentum Distribution and Effective Mass of Jellium and Simple Metals (abstract) |
| 11:15 - 11:50 AM | Abhijit Mehta | Zigzag Phase Transition in Quantum Wires (abstract) |
| 11:50 - 1:20 PM | Lunch (Miller Hall, Brinkley Room) | |
Strong Correlation
Session Chair: Paul Kent
| 1:20 - 1:55 PM | Sandro Sorella | Spin Liquid Phases in Strongly Correlated Lattice Models (abstract) |
| 1:55 - 2:30 PM | Emanuel Gull | Energetics of Superconductivity in the Two Dimensional Hubbard Model (abstract) |
| 2:30 - 4:00 PM | Poster Session II - Coffee (In abstract book, lower-left corner has your poster number) | |
DMFT, Fe Pnictides
Session Chair: David Vanderbilt
| 4:00 - 4:35 PM | Zhiping Yin | DFT+DMFT to Correlated Electronic Structures: Recent Developments and Applications to Iron-based Superconductors (abstract) |
| 4:35 - 5:10 PM | Michele Casula | Dynamical Screening Effects from First Principles: Implications for Low-Energy Models and Application to the Iron Pnictides (abstract) |
| 6:30 - 9:00 PM | Dinner (Miller Hall) | |
Friday, June 14, 2013
| 8:00 - 9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast (Sadler Center, Tidewater A&B) |
Scientific Program (Sadler Center, Tidewater A&B)
| 9:00 - 9:15 AM | Poster Awards |
Large scale
Session Chair: Jerry Bernholc
| 9:15 - 9:50 AM | Ravishankar Sundararaman | Nonlocal Polarizable Continuum Models from Joint Density-Functional Theory (abstract) |
| 9:50 - 10:25 AM | Emil Briggs | Electronic Structure Calculations on Thousands of CPUs and GPUs (abstract) |
| 10:25 - 10:50 AM | Coffee Break | |
Materials
Session Chair: Natalie Holzwarth
| 10:50 - 11:25 AM | Brian Kolb | The Bandgap of Pyrite: Bandgap Oscillations on an Ultrafast Timescale (abstract) |
| 11:25 - 12:00 PM | Stefano Curtarolo | The Quest for Descriptors in High-Throughput Searches: Thermoelectrics and Topological Insulators (abstract) |
| 12:00 - 12:10 PM | Closing Remarks | |
| 12:10 - 1:10 PM | Lunch (Sadler Center, Tidewater A&B) | |
List of invited speakers
Updated: June 4, 2013
| Nicole Benedek University of Texas (USA) | Exploring the Structure and Properties of Complex Oxides: New Ideas and Insights from Theory and Simulation |
| Emil Briggs North Carolina State University (USA) | Electronic Structure Calculations on Thousands of CPUs and GPUs |
| Roberto Car Princeton University (USA) | Correlated Electron Calculations with Hartree-Fock Scaling |
| Michele Casula Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (France) | Dynamical Screening Effects from First Principles: Implications for Low-Energy Models and Application to the Iron Pnictides |
| Stefano Curtarolo Duke University (USA) | The Quest for Descriptors in High-Throughput Searches: Thermoelectrics and Topological Insulators |
| Kevin Garrity Rutgers University (USA) | Heavy Adatoms on Magnetic Surfaces: A Search for Chern Insulators |
| Emanuel Gull University of Michigan (USA) | Energetics of Superconductivity in the Two Dimensional Hubbard Model |
| Markus Holzman Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) | Momentum Distribution and Effective Mass of Jellium and Simple Metals |
| Jiawang Hong Rutgers University (USA) | Beyond Piezoelectrics: First-Principles Theory and Calculation of Flexoelectricity |
| Brian Kolb Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) | The Bandgap of Pyrite: Bandgap Oscillations on an Ultrafast Timescale |
| Steven Louie University of California at Berkeley (USA) | Electronic Excitations in Solids and Nanostructures: GW, GW-BSE, and Beyond |
| Abhijit Mehta Duke University (USA) | Zigzag Phase Transition in Quantum Wires and Localization in Constrictions |
| Saverio Moroni International School for Advanced Studies (Italy) | Forces and Response Functions in QMC |
| Mumtaz Qazilbash College of William and Mary (USA) | Infrared Spectroscopy and Nanoscale Imaging of the Metal-Insulator Phase Transition in Vanadium Dioxide |
| Sandro Sorella International School for Advanced Studies (Italy) | Spin Liquid Phases in Strongly Correlated Lattice Models |
| Ravishankar Sundararaman Cornell University (USA) | Nonlocal Polarizable Continuum Models from Joint Density-Functional Theory |
| Cyrus Umrigar Cornell University (USA) | Semistochastic Quantum Monte Carlo -- A hybrid of Exact Diagonalization and QMC methods |
| Chris van de Walle University of California at Santa Barbara (USA) | Complex Oxide Interfaces |
| Ruqian Wu University of California at Irvine (USA) | Generating Topological Insulator Gap in Graphene with Heavy Adatoms |
| Zhiping Yin Rutgers University (USA) | DFT+DMFT to Correlated Electronic Structures: Recent Developments and Applications to Iron-based Superconductors |