The workshop will be held at the University of Texas at Austin campus. Workshop talks will take place in the Avaya Auditorium (above) in the Institute for Computational Sciences & Engineering. The auditorium is located on the 2nd floor (street level) of the ACES building.
The breaks and lunches will take place in the Connector Lobby (above) of the ACES building, adjacent to the Avaya Auditorium.
The ES10 Map identifies workshop locations and other points of interest.
NOTE: Last updated Monday, May 31.
Monday, June 7, 2010
All Day -- Lodging Check-In -- San Jacinto Hall
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. -- Welcome Reception and Workshop Registration -- Etter-Harbin Alumni Center (ES10 Map). Main Lounge/Concourse.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
8:00 - 8:45 a.m. -- Continental Breakfast -- ACES Connector Lobby
8:45 - 9:00 a.m. -- Opening Remarks -- J. Tinsley Oden, Director, Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences
9:00 - 9:40 a.m. -- Manos Kioupakis - University of California at Santa Barbara - “First-principles calculation of Auger recombination and internal absorption loss in nitride light emitters.”
9:40 - 10:20 a.m. -- Joe Subotnik - University of Pennsylvania - “The initial and final states of electron and energy transfer processes.”
10:20 - 10:40 a.m. -- Break
10:40 - 11:20 a.m. -- Vivek Ranjan - North Carolina State University - "High Energy Density Storage in Ferroelectric Polymers"
11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. -- Leeor Kronik - Weizmann Institute of Science - Israel - “Predicting both dispersion interactions and electronic structure using density functional theory”
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. -- Lunch - ACES Connector Lobby
Len Kleinman Symposium. Speakers Chelikowsky, MacDonald and Phillips will honor the work of UT Austin Physics professor Leonard Kleinman.
1:00 - 1:40 p.m. -- Jim Chelikowsky - University of Texas at Austin - “Pseudopotential calculations 25 years after Kleinman-Bylander”
1:40 - 2:20 p.m. -- Allan MacDonald - University of Texas at Austin - “GW in Magnetic and Nearly Magnetic Systems”
2:20 - 3:00 p.m. -- Jim Phillips - Rutgers University - “Beyond Nostalgia: Electronic Structure Concepts for the 21st Century”
3:00 - 3:20 p.m. -- Break
3:20 - 4:00 p.m. -- Bruce Harmon - Ames Laboratory - U.S. Department of Energy - “FeAs superconductors: Electronic Structure Calculations are Relevant!”
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. -- Poster Session A - 2nd Floor Outside Avaya Auditorium
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. -- Dinner - Etter-Harbin Alumni Center (ES10 Map). Legends Room - 2nd Floor.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. -- Continental Breakfast -- ACES Connector Lobby
9:00 - 9:40 a.m. -- Jack Deslippe - University of California at Berkeley - “Pushing the limits of the GW-BSE methodology for complex materials, molecules and nano-systems”
9:40 - 10:20 a.m. -- Han Hsu - University of Minnesota - “Spin-state crossover in lower-mantle minerals and lanthanum cobaltite (LaCoO3)”
10:20 - 10:40 a.m. -- Break
10:40 - 11:20 a.m. -- Nancy Makri - University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign - “Iterative Monte Carlo Path Integral Formulation of Quantum Dynamics”
11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. -- Andrei Malashevich - University of California at Berkeley - "Theory of orbital magnetoelectric response"
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. -- Lunch - ACES Connector Lobby
1:00 - 1:40 p.m. -- Steve Young - University of Pennsylvania - “Bulk photvoltaic effect: Nonlinear Optical Contributions”
1:40 - 2:20 p.m. -- Craig Fennie - Cornell University - “Magnetoelectric coupling and switching in layered perovskites”
2:20 - 2:40 p.m. -- Break
2:40 - 3:20 p.m. -- Shengbai Zhang - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - “Boundary Effects on the Electronic States of Nanomaterials”
3:20 - 4:00 p.m. -- Suhuai Wei - National Renewable Energy Laboratory - U.S. Department of Energy - “Engineering of Bulk and Nano Materials for Energy Applications”
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. -- Poster Session B - 2nd Floor Outside Avaya Auditorium
Dinner: On your own.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. -- Continental Breakfast -- ACES Connector Lobby
9:00 - 9:40 a.m. -- Ken Shih - University of Texas at Austin - “Quantum size effects in metallic ultra-thin films: surface energy, workfunction, and superconductivity”
9:40 - 10:20 a.m. -- Salvador Barraza-Lopez - Georgia Tech University - “Effects of Metal Contacts on Electronic Transport through Two-Terminal Graphene Junctions”
10:20 - 10:40 a.m. -- Break
10:40- 11:20 a.m. -- Johannes Lischner - Cornell University - “Phonon-phonon interactions in carbon nanotubes”
11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. -- Jeff Neaton - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - U.S. Department of Energy - “First-Principles Approaches to Charge Transport and Energy Conversion with Self-Energy Corrections
12:00 - 12:15 p.m. -- Concluding Remarks
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. -- Lunch -- ACES Connector Lobby
Assortment of boxed salads, sandwiches and bottled drinks for easy transporting.
Residence Hall checkout is 2:00 p.m.