EXC!TiNG Program

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S - Summer School


Monday, June 23, 2003

08.30-10.00

Opening remarks (Börje Johansson/Rajeev Ahuja)
Börje Johansson
History of Density Functional Theory (DFT)
10.30-12.00 Brian Vohnsen
A short history of optics
14.00-16.00 Ulf von Barth
Basic Density-Functional theory - an overview
Part 1
16.30-18.00 Kjeld Pedersen
Introduction to basic experimental optics
Part 1

Tuesday, June 24, 2003

08.30-10.00 Ulf van Barth
Basic Density-Functional theory - an overview
Part 2
10.30-12.00   EXC!TiNG group and task leaders
EXC!TiNG Research Training Network meeting and strategic discussions
14.00-15.00 Xavier Gonze
Pseudopotentials plane waves - projector augmented waves
15.00-16.00 Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl
Augmented planewave methods
16.30-17.30 Olle Eriksson
Electronic structure and magneto resistance of metal oxides
17.30-18.00 Ulf von Barth
Basic Density-Functional theory - an overview
Part 3
19.45-20.15 Xavier Gonze
Brief introduction to PAW
20.15-22.00 Poster session

Wednesday, June 25, 2003

08.30-10.00 Eberhard K. U. Gross
Beyond the (LDA) ground state I
Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT)
10.30-12.00 Adolfo G. Eguiluz
Beyond the (LDA) ground state II
The GW approximation
14.00-15.00 Torsten Andersen
Linear and nonlinear semiclassical optiocs beyond the electric dipole approximation and the Born approximations
15.00-16.00 Wolfgang Hübner
Nonlinear optics: density functional theory and more...
16.30-17.30 Kjeld Pedersen
Introduction to basic experimental optics
Part 2

Thursday, June 26, 2003

08.30-10.00 Giovanni Bussi
Beyond the (LDA) ground state III
The Bethe Salpeter equation
10.30-12.00 Eberhard K.U. Gross
Beyond the (LDA) ground state IV
Orbital functionals in Density Functional Theory:
the connection withe many-body theory
14.00-15.00 Silvana Botti
Applications of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
15.00-16.00 Kjeld Pedersen
Second-harmonic generation spectroscopy on thin metal films on Si(111)
16.30-17.30 Brian Vohnsen
Scanning Optical Microscopy for Nano- and Microstructure Imaging
17.30-18.30 Sangeeta Sharma
Second-order optical response from first principles
19.45-22:20 Adolfo G. Eguiluz
GW in a nutshell

Friday, June 27, 2003

08.30-10.00 Björgvin Hjörvarsson
What is a surface? Monolayers, islands, etc.
10.30-12.00 Julius Hohlfeld
Time-dependent SHG spectroscopy on gold
13.00-19.00 Excursion
Visit to Luossavaara Kirunavaara AB (LKAB) InfoMine in Kiruna



Saturday, June 28, 2003

08.30-10.00
                    
Andrea Damascelli
Probing the low-energy electronic structure of complex systems by ARPES
10.30-12.00 Bert Koopmans
Separation of bulk and surface contributions in experimental linear and nonlinear (magneto-)optics
14.00-15.00 Julius Hohlfeld
Magneto-optical experiments II
15.00-16.00   General Discussion
16.30-16.50 Kerstin Hummer
Excitonic effects in anthracene under high pressure
16.50-17.10 Devis Bellucci
Manipulating the coupling in artificial molecules using high magnetic fields
17.10-17.30 Nataliya Daoenkova
First-principles calculation of nonlinear surface magneto-optical response of ferromagnetic supperlattices [Ni(xML)/Cu(xML)]N
17.30-17.50 Mikahil Katsnelson
Excitation spectra and magnetism of strongly correlated systems: Ab initio Dynamical Mean Field Theory
17.50-18.10 Tobias Burnus
Bonds in Motion: the time-dependent electron localizazion function
20.00-22.00 Conference Dinner
Reindeer BBQ

Sunday, June 29, 2003

08.30-10.00 Jan Kunes
Magnetism and magneto-optics in Density Functional Theory
10.30-12.00 Wolfgang Kuch
X-ray magnetic circular dichroism for quantitative element-resolved magnetic microscopy
14.00-15.00 Alice Ruini
Ab initio optical absorption in conjugated polymers: the role of dimensionality
15.00-16.00 Bengt Holm
Cancellation effects in the GW approximation
16.30-16.50 Helmut Rathgen
Kramers-Kronig transformation and analytical continuation in ab initio calculations of the dielectric function
16.50-17.10 Clotilde Cucinotta
Static polarizability and hyper-polarizabilities of atoms: a computational analysis of new exchange-correlation approximations
17.10-17.30 Yann-Michel Niquet
The Linear-Response Sham-Schlüter Equation: Asymptotic Behaviour of the Exchange-Correlation Potential
17.30-17.50 Angelica Zacarias
Transport properties from DFT calculations
17.50-18.10 Jürgen Spitaler
Optical properties and Raman scattering of vanadium ladder compounds
17.50-18.10 Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl
Closing remarks