HoW exciting! 2016, Berlin, August 3-11
Conference photos!
- Some photos taken during the conference can be found here.

Conference talks
- The list of conference talks is given in the following. Click on the title to get the corresponding PDF file, when available.
Keynote lectures
- A direct approach to the calculation of many-body Green's functions: Theoretical spectroscopy beyond quasiparticles — Lucia Reining
- The electronic structure of transition metal oxides probed by high- (and higher-) energy spectroscopies — Marco Grioni
- Topological properties and transversal transport coefficients — Ingrid Mertig
- Relativistic approximations in DFT calculations of solids — Andris Gulans
- Bethe-Salpeter equation approach to excitations in transparent conducting oxides — Friedhelm Bechstedt
- Attosecond soft x-rays and spectroscopy — Jens Biegert
- Ab-initio calculations of electronically excited states for large molecular systems — Martin Schütz
- New kernels for time-dependent density-functional theory calculations — Santiago Rigamonti
- Optical excitations in bilayer graphene under pressure: Topological effects — Jorge Sofo
- Optical absorption spectra at finite temperature — Feliciano Giustino
- Temperature-dependence and zero-point renormalisation of the electronic structure of solids — Xavier Gonze
- Strong electron-vibrational coupling and ab-initio theory of heat transport — Matthias Scheffler
- Understanding hybrid organic/inorganic materials and structures from first principles — Leeor Kronik
- New materials for solar cells — Clas Persson
- High-energy optical conductivity in oxides heterostructures and correlated electron systems — Andrivo Rusydi
- Inelastic losses and satellites in x-ray and electron spectra — John Rehr
- Electronic structure and electron dynamics in novel two-dimensional materials — Philip Hofmann
Contributed talks
- Tunnelling spintronics across MgO driven by double oxygen vacancies — Beata Taudul
- Electronic and optical excitations at the pyridine@ZnO hybrid interface — Olga Turkina
- Electronic sum-frequency generation and XUV four wave mixing: Novel non-linear optical probes of exciton dynamics — Laura Foglia
- Wave-like nature of van-der-Waals interactions in polarizable nanostructures — Alberto Ambrosetti
- Bond-polarisability model of SFG reveals strong and weak H-bonds at the Al2O3(0001)-H2O interface — Mark DelloStritto
- Switchable polarisation in graphene-based monolayers — Md. Noor-A-Alam
- Topological invariants preserved for stanene-like derived sheets on (0001)-SiC surfaces — Filipe Matusalem
- Dynamical effects on the low temperature dependence of polar semiconductors — Jean Paul Nery
- Influence of order and disorder on photovoltaic properties of AnE-PV copolymers — Chuanding Dong
- Ultrafast modulation of x-ray absorption by coherent phonon excitations — Jannick Weisshaupt
- X-ray absorption spectroscopy: Temperature effects using BSE — Weine Olovsson
- Theoretical investigation of BCN materials and simulated x-ray absorption spectra — Regiane Nascimento
exciting-related lectures
- A touch of "exciting" — Pasquale Pavone
- Density-functional theory from an "exciting" perspective — Pasquale Pavone
- Crystal relaxation, elasticity, and lattice dynamics — Pasquale Pavone
- Behind the "exciting" curtain: The (L)APW+lo method — Andris Gulans
- The "exciting" GW method — Dmitrii Nabok
- The LDA-1/2 method in "exciting" — Ronaldo Pela
- The Bethe-Salpeter equation: Excitons in "exciting" — Caterina Cocchi
- Core-level excitations in "exciting" — Christian Vorwerk
- Time-dependent density-functional theory in "exciting" — Santiago Rigamonti
- LayerOptics: Microscopic modeling of optical coefficients in layared materials — Christian Vorwerk
- CELL: Cluster expansion for large parent cells — Santiago Rigamonti & Maria Troppenz
- Novel materials discovery: The NOMAD project — Claudia Draxl
Remarks
- Workshop closing remarks — Caterina Cocchi