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