Thursday, June 22

2:00 - 11:00 pm	Register and check into residence hall
6:00 - 9:00 pm	RECEPTION (Physics Research Building - Atrium)

Friday, June 23

7:00 - 8:30 am	BREAKFAST SERVED  (dorm-resident only)
	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM  (Holiday Inn, Ballroom CD)
	Session Chair: Sven Rudin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:00 - 9:35 am	Art Epstein, The Ohio State University Conducting polymers
9:35 - 10:10 am	Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology Excitonic effects and optical properties of Si nanowires
10:10 - 10:30 am	COFFEE BREAK
	Session Chair: David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
10:30 - 11:05 am	Murilo L. Tiago, The University of Texas at Austin Optical and electronic excitations in nanosystems from first-principles Green's function methods
11:05 - 11:40 am	Michele Lazzeri, Universite' Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Electron transport and hot phonons in carbon nanotubes
11:40 - 12:15 pm	Peter Schultz, Sandia National Laboratory Defect levels in semiconductors: Is the "band gap problem" truly a problem?
12:30 - 1:30 pm	LUNCH SERVED  (Holiday Inn, Ballroom AB)
	Session Chair: Natalie Holzwarth, Wake-Forest University
1:30 - 2:05 pm	Julien Toulouse, Cornell University Multi-configurational density functional theory by decomposition of the electron-electron interaction into long-range and short-range contributions (abstract, talk)
2:05 - 2:40 pm	Paolo Umari, SISSA, Trieste, Italy Linear and non-linear dielectric response of periodic systems from quantum Monte Carlo
3:30 - 5:00 pm	POSTER SESSION I  (Physics Research Building)
6:00 pm	CONFERENCE BANQUET  (Physics Research Building)

Saturday, June 24

7:00 - 8:30 am	BREAKFAST SERVED  (dorm-residents only)
	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM  (Pfahl 140)
	Session Chair: John Wilkins, The Ohio State University
9:00 - 9:35 am	Bruce Harmon, Iowa State University & Ames Lab Introduction to the theory of magnetism in solids (abstract, talk)
9:35 - 10:10 am	Peter Dederichs, Forschungszentrum Juelich Exchange interactions in dilute magnetic semiconductors
10:10 - 10:30 am	COFFEE BREAK
	Session Chair: John Wilkins, The Ohio State University
10:30 - 11:05 am	Mark Jarrell, University of Cincinnati Dynamical Mean Field Theory - Beyond infinite dimensions and single sites (abstract, talk)
11:05 - 11:40 am	Olle Heinonen, Seagate Inc. Materials, microstructure, magnetism, and spin transport: the physics soup of recording heads
11:40 - 12:15 pm	Plenary Discussion
12:30 - 1:30 pm	LUNCH SERVED  (Physics Research Building)
	Session Chair: Jerry Bernholc, North Carolina State University
1:30 - 2:05 pm	Massimiliano Stengel, University of California, Santa Barbara Origin of the dielectric dead layer in nanoscale capacitors
2:05 - 2:40 pm	Ivo Souza, UC Berkeley Wannier interpolation for calculation of anomalous Hall conductivity in ferromagnets (abstract, talk)
2:40 - 3:10 pm	Oswaldo Dieguez, Rutgers University Mapping of energy versus polarization in ferroelectric materials
3:30 - 5:00 pm	POSTER SESSION II  (Physics Research Building)

[ DINNER ON YOUR OWN ]



Sunday, June 25

7:00 - 8:30 am	BREAKFAST SERVED  (dorm-residents only)
	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM  (Pfahl 140)
	Session Chair: Richard Hennig, Cornell University
9:00 - 9:35 am	Cyrus J. Umrigar, Cornell University Systematic elimination of fixed-node error by optimiziation of nodes of many-body wavefunction (abstract, talk)
9:35 - 10:10 am	Wissam Al-Saidi, College of William and Marry Auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo with localized basis sets - Applications to atoms and molecules using a Gaussian basis
10:10 - 10:30 am	COFFEE BREAK
	Session Chair: Dallas Trinkle, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
10:30 - 11:05 am	Artem Oganov, ETH Zurich Crystal structure prediction with ab initio evolutionary algorithms
11:05 - 11:40 am	Rampi Ramprasad, University of Connecticut The local dielectric permittivity in multi-component systems: Theory and Applications
11:40 - 12:15 am	Mark Asta, University of California, Davis Ab-initio alloy thermodynamics
12:15 - 12:20 pm	CONCLUDING REMARKS
12:30 - 1:15 pm	BOXED LUNCH SERVED  (Physics Research Building)

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