Friday, June 14
Talks
Dilip Kanhere, chair
9:00-9:25 Michele Parrinello (ETH, Lugano, Switzerland): "Molecular dynamics simulation of nucleation and growth of crystals from solution"
9:30-9:55 Takeo Fujiwara (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan): "Electronic structure and Li ion dynamics in Thio-LISICON(Li4GeS4 and Li3PS4)"
10:00-10:25 Eva Zurek (SUNY, Buffalo, USA): "Building a Chemical Intuition Under Pressure: Predictions of Novel Hydrides"
10:30-10:55 Coffee
Helena Petrilli, chair
11:00-11:25 Massimo Altarelli (European XFEL, Hamburg, Germany): "Theory challenges from X-ray FEL's"
11:30-11:55 Maurits W. Haverkort (MPI-CPfS, Dresden, Germany): "Testing the reality of Wannier orbitals and their tight-binding hamiltonian"
12:00-12:25 Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber Institut, Berlin, Germany): "Intrinsic Defects and Adsorption at Oxide Surfaces:
Theoretical Challenges, Concepts, and Insights"
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Walter Lambrecht, chair
14:30-14:55 Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta (SN Bose Center, Kolkata, India): "Modeling Complex Materials: A NMTO-Wannier Function Approach"
15:00-15:25 Niels Egede Christensen (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark): "Quasi-Particle Band Structures and Thermoelectrics of PbX (X=Te,Se,S)"
15:30-15:55 Ilja Turek (Institute of Physics of Materials, Brno, Czech Republic): "Relativistic LMTO theory of electron transport in random alloys"
16:00-16:30 Coffee
Michael Methfessel, chair
16:30-16:55 Walter Harrison (Stanford Univ., USA): "The Benefits of Giving Up Accuracy"
17:00-17:25 Luciano Pietronero (Univ. of Rome Sapienza, Italy): "Economic complexity"
17:30-17:55 Jan Zaanen (Univ. of Leiden, The Netherlands): "From strange metals to black holes"
18:30-22:00 Posters and food