[Wien] MORE 2008

[Peter Blaha]

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M O R E 2 0 0 8
Meeting on Optical Response in Extended Systems
November 19-21,2008
Vienna/Austria

Scope:
"MORE of LESS". MORE 2008 follows the spirit of the highly successful Low
Energy Spectrometry Symposium (LESS) that took place in Vienna in 2007.

Optical absorption spectroscopy, resonant inelastic Xray
scattering, reflection EELS, ellipsometry, and reflectance difference
spectroscopy are just a few of a large variety of experimental probes to
explore the optical and higherenergy response of
materials, including elemental solids, compounds, molecules on surfaces or
complex nanostructures.

On the theoretical side many body perturbation theory (MBPT) and
timedependent density functional theory (TDDFT) represent stateoftheart
developments to describe excitation processes in materials. Both, theory
and experiment being complementary, ideally should go hand in hand to
promote development and leading edge research.

The main intention of MORE 2008 is bringing together experimentalists and
theoreticians of these different fields and form a platform for leading
experts to discuss and exchange their recent results and scientific
concepts. At the same time, tutoriallike lectures given by key experts of
these fields will provide highquality introductions for young researchers.
To ensure lively and fruitful discussions and a personal atmosphere, we
limit the number of participants including speakers to 50. Contributions
in the form of posters are readily welcome.

Invited Speakers (confirmed):
· C. AmbroschDraxl (MU Leoben, Austria)
· F. J. Garcia de Abajo (CSIC Madrid, Spain)
· R. GomezAbal (FHI Berlin, Germany)
· R. Hambach (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
· M. Kociak (CNRSOrsay,France)
· G. Kresse (CMS Vienna, Austria)
· M. A. Loi (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
· A. Marini (Univ. of Rome, Italy)
· M. G. Ramsey (University of Graz, Austria)
· L. Reining (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
· A. Rubio (Univ. del Pays Vasco, Spain)
· P. Schattschneider (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
· W. Sigle (MPI f. Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany)
· J. Verbeeck (Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium)
· W. Werner (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
· P. Zeppenfeld (JKU Linz, Austria)

Venue:
The MORE 2008 is located at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute
for Mathematical Physics (ESI), Boltzmanngasse 9, 1090 Vienna
(www.esi.ac.at).

Registration:
The fee for attending this symposium including tutorial is EUR 195,.
This fee covers the coffee breaks and the conference dinner.
Registration is now available at http://www.physics.at/.
The final deadline for registration is October 19, 2008.
The payment of the registration fee should be done by
Bank Transfer, without charges for the beneficiary, to
"Freunde der Festkoerpherphysik"
Account Number 304.149.150.06, Volksbank Wien, Bank Code 43.000
IBAN: AT11 4300 0304 1491 5006
SWIFT/BIC: VBWIATW1
Please do not forget to indicate the name of the participant!

Organizers:
C. Ambrosch-Draxl (MU Leoben, Austria)
K. Hummer (Univ. Vienna, Austria)
J. Luitz (Lausanne, Switzerland)
P. Schattschneider (TU Vienna, Austria)

Programme:
Wednesday, November 19
13:30 14:00 Registration
14:00 14:10 Welcome
14:10 16:10 Tutorial 1 (incl. 10min break)
             Lucia Reining
             "Electronic response-theoretical approaches and link to
              experiment"
16:10 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 18:30 Tutorial 2 (incl. 10min break)
             Peter Schattschneider
             "EELS in the TEM"
18:30 19:30 Aperitif

Thursday, November 20
08:30 -- 09:00 Registration
09:00 -- 09:15 Opening
09:15 -- 10:00 Claudia AmbroschDraxl
               "The role of electronphonon interaction in photoemission
                spectra: an abintio study"
10:00 -- 10:45 Andrea Marini
               "Breakdown of the electronic picture of the excitonic
                states: evidence of phonon mediated bright to dark
                (and vice-versa)transitions"
10:45 -- 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 -- 12:00 Mathieu Kociak
               "Nanometerscale mapping of electromagnetic fields in the
                visible range"
12:00 -- 12:45 Georg Kresse
               "TDDFT using hybrid functionals: an alternative to GW & BSE?"
12:45 -- 14:15 Lunch
14:15 -- 15:00 Ricardo Gomez-Abal
               "All-electron GW method based on LAPW: Implementation and
                applications"
15:00 -- 15:45 Peter Zeppenfeld
               "Reflectance Difference Spectroscopy for quantitative
                surface and thin film analysis"
15:45 -- 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 -- 17:00 Wilfried Sigle
               "Valence electron spectroscopy using energy-filtered TEM"
17:00 -- 17:45 Wolfgang Werner
               to be announced
19:00 -       Dinner

Friday, November 21
09:00 -- 09:45 Angel Rubio
               "Modelling excited state dynamics in low dimensional systems"
09:45 -- 10:30 Maria A. Loi
               "Organic-inorganic hybrids: from photophysical properties to
                devices"
10:30 -- 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 -- 11:45 Ralf Hambach
               "Electron Energy Loss Spectra of Graphite, Graphene and
                Carbon Nanotubes: Plasmon Dispersion and Crystal Local
                Field Effects"
11:45 -- 12:30 Michael G. Ramsey
               "Angle-resolved photoemission studies of intra- and
                intermolecular band dispersion"
12:30 -- 14:00 Lunch
14:00 -- 14:45 Johan Verbeeck
               "Recovering the dielectric function from nanoscale regions
                with low loss EELS: dream or reality?"
14:45 -- 15:30 Javier Garcia de Abajo
               "Plasmons in metallic nanoparticles"
15:30 -- 16:00 Closing

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