[Wien] Announcement: MORE2008 - Nov. 19-21, 2008, Vienna/Austria

[Joachim Luitz]

MORE 2008 - Meeting on Optical Response in Extended Systems
November 19-21, 2008
Vienna/Austria

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 X-ray scattering, 
reflection EELS, ellipsometry, and reflectance difference spectroscopy 
are just a few of a large variety of experimental probes to explore the 
optical and higher-energy response of materials, including elemental 
solids, compounds, molecules on surfaces or complex nanostructures.

On the theoretical side many body perturbation theory (MBPT) and 
time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) represent 
state-of-the-art 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.

Bringing together experimentalists and theoreticians of these different 
fields is the main intention of MORE 2008. 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.


For more information and registration please visit
http://www.physics.at/cms/index.php?section=31

With kind regards
   Joachim Luitz


Programme

Wed, 19.11.2008

14:10-16:10 Tutorial 1 - Lucia Reining (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
   Electronic response - theoretical approaches and link to experiment

16:30-18:30 Tutorial 2 - Peter Schattschneider (Vienna Univ. of 
Technology, Austria)
    EELS in the TEM

Thu, 20.11.2008

09:15-10:00 Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl (MU Leoben, Austria)
   The role of electron-phonon interaction in photoemission spectra: ab 
ab-initio study
10:10-10:45 Andrea Marini (Univ. of Rome, Italy)
    Breakdown of the electronic picture of the excitonic states:
    evidence of phonon mediated bright to dark (and vice-versa) transitions

11:15-12:00 Mathieu Kociak (CNRS-Orsay, France)
    Nanometer-scale mapping of electromagnetic fields in the visible range
12:00-12:45 Georg Kresse (CMS Vienna, Austria)
    TD-DFT using hybrid functionals: an alternative to GW & BSE?

14:15-15:00 Maria A. Loi (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
    Organic-inorganic hybrids from photophysical properties to devices
15:00-15:45 P. Zeppenfeld (JKU Linz, Austria)
    Reflectance Difference Spectroscopy for quantitative surface and 
thin film analysis

16:15-17:00 Wilfried Sigle (MPI f. Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany)
    Valence electron spectroscopy using energy-filtered TEM
17:00-17:45 Wolfgang Werner (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
    to be announced

Fri, 21.11.2008

09:00-09:45 Angel Rubio (Univ. del Pays Vasco, Spain)
    Modelling excited state dynamics in low dimensional systems
09:45-10:30 Ricardo Gomez-Abal (FHI Berlin, Germany)
    All-electron GW method based on LAPW: Implementation and applications

11:00-11:45 Ralf Hambach (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
    Electron Energy Loss Spectra of Graphite, Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes:
    Plasmon Dispersion and Crystal Local Field Effects.
11:45-12:30 Michael G. Ramsey (Universtiy of Graz, Austria)
    Angle-resolved photoemission studies of intra-and inter-molecular 
band dispersion

14:00-14:45 Johan Verbeeck (Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium)
   Recovering the dielectric function from nanoscale regions with low 
loss EELS: dream or reality?
14:45-15:30 F.J. Garcia de Abajo (CSIC Madrid, Spain)
   Plasmons in metallic nanoparticles




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