CECAM Workshop on

Excited Electrons in Molecules, Solids and Atoms

Monday 8 - Wednesday 10 September 1997

CECAM, Lyon, France

Programme

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Each speaker has been allocated 40 minutes. The talk should last for no more than 30 (ideally 25) minutes, allowing 10-15 minutes to be devoted to questions and discussion (which may include brief viewgraphs from members of the audience).

Monday 8 September

09:30Announcements
09:40J.V. Ortiz The Electron Propagator Approach to Quantum Chemistry and the Theory of Chemical Bonding
10:20Antonio Sgamellotti Green's function calculations on doubly ionized molecular states and the simulation of Auger spectra
11:00Coffee
11:30Peter Bobbert GW-quasiparticle energies in conjugated polymers; a pilot study
12:10Richard Needs Calculations of excitation energies using quantum Monte Carlo methods
12:50Lunch
15:00Lars Hedin The transition from the adiabatic to the sudden limit in core electron photoemission
15:40E.K.U. Gross Excited states and time-dependent phenomena in density functional theory
16:20Coffee
16:50Barry Pickup The perturbed electron propagator
17:30Jaap G. Snijders Dynamic response properties of molecules through Time Dependent Density Functional Theory
18:10Michael Deleuze On the adequacy of the one-particle picture of ionization for polymers
18:50End

Tuesday 9 September

09:00Eric Shirley Modeling Core-Hole Effects in X-ray Absorption and Resonant Fluorescence
09:40Alok Shukla Obtaining Wannier Functions of a Crystalline Insulator within a Hartree-Fock approach
10:20Rex Godby Space-Time Method for Ab Initio Self-Energy Calculations
11:00Coffee
11:30Ulf von Barth New variational expressions for the total energy and response functions of electronic systems
12:10Carl-Olof Almbladh Improved local-field corrections to the G0W approximation: Importance of consistency relations
12:50Lunch
15:00Friedhelm Bechstedt Ab initio calculations of optical properties including many-body effects
15:40Lucia Reining Ab initio calculation of excitons
16:20Coffee
16:50Peter Fulde Energy-band calculations for semiconductors by quantum-chemical methods
17:30Discussion 1
18:10End
20:00Conference dinner in central Lyon

Wednesday 10 September

09:00Steven G. Louie Quasiparticle and Optical Excitations in Small Silicon Clusters
09:40Giovanni Onida Electronic structure and optical properties of GaAs(110) calculated within GW
10:20Discussion 2
11:00Coffee
11:30Olle Gunnarsson Model Hamiltonian and electronic properties of A3C60 (A= K,Rb)
12:10Robert MocciaTo be announced
12:50Lunch
14:30Angel Rubio Core polarization in the optical response of metal clusters: generalized time-dependent density-functional-theory
15:10Francesco Mauri Excitonic self-trapping in diamond
15:50Coffee
16:10Rodolfo Del Sole Electronic structure calculations beyond the LDA: cohesive energies of silicon and diamond
16:50Discussion 3
17:30End

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