Kobe workshop for material design on strongly correlated electrons in molecules and materials
February 17-18, 2016 Kobe Japan
"Kobe workshop for material design on strongly correlated electrons in molecules and materials" concentrates on showcasing the advances and achievements in methods for describing strong correlation in materials and molecules and computing properties in order to facilitate material design.
This workshop includes talks from both younger and more established researchers on the topics:
We welcome you to join the workshop.
Please contact James Anderson by February 12th (contact info at the bottom of the page) with the following information so we know how many will attend:
Book of abstracts (pdf file, updated on Feb. 16)
09:30- | Registration |
10:00 | |
10:05- | Opening Remarks |
10:10 | |
Session 1 (Chair: Mario Piris) | |
10:10- | Paul W. Ayers, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University |
10:55 | Methods for strong correlation from the wavefunction forms of exactly solvable models |
10:55- | Wataru Uemura, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo |
11:40 | Configuration interaction with antisymetrized geminal powers |
11:40- | Photo |
11:50 | |
11:40- | Lunch |
13:10 | |
Session 2 (Chair: Paul W. Ayers) | |
13:10- | Seiichiro Ten-no, Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University |
13:55 | TBA |
13:55- | Hiroyuki Nakashima, Quantum Chemistry Research Institute |
14:40 | Solving the Schrödinger equations of interstellar molecules |
14:40- | Break |
15:10 | |
Session 3 (Chair: Seiichiro Ten-no) | |
15:10- | Mario Piris, Kimika Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea |
15:55 | Natural Orbital Functional Theory: an alternative to DFT |
15:55- | Maho Nakata, Advanced Center for Computing and Communication, RIKEN |
16:40 | The PubChemQC Project: a large chemical database from the first principle calculations |
Session 4 (Chair: Annika Bande) | |
9:50- | Sergei Manzhos, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore |
10:35 | Large-scale density functional based methods from the perspective of computational materials science |
10:35- | Jeng-Da Chai, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University |
11:20 | TAO-DFT and its applications to zigzag graphene nanoribbons |
11:30- | K Computer Presentation / Photo |
12:00 | |
12:10- | Lunch |
13:20 | |
Session 5 (Chair: Sergei Manzhos) | |
13:20- | Annika Bande, Institute of Methods for Material Development and Joint Ultrafast Dynamics Lab JULiq in Solutions and at Interfaces, Freien Universität Berlin |
14:05 | Electron Dynamics of Ultrafast Energy Transfer Processes in Quantum Dots |
14:05- | Juan Ignacio Rodriguez Hernandez, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional |
14:50 | Theoretical study on the structural, electronic and optical properties of nanostructures used in organic solar cells |
14:50- | Break |
15:05 | |
Session 6 (Chair: TBA) | |
15:05- | Aron Beekman, Department of Physics & Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences, Keio University |
15:50 | Duality methods in quantum melting phase transitions |
15:50- | Hiroshi Shinaoka, Department of Physics, Saitama University |
16:35 | Relativistic first-principles study of pyrochlore oxides |
16:35- | Mohammad Khazaei, Computational Materials Science Unit, National Institute for Materials Science |
17:20 | Electronic structures of MAX phases and MXenes |
17:20- | Closing Remarks |
17:25 |
The workshop will be held at RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS).
Access details: [RIKEN/AICS Official Website] http://aics.riken.jp/en/map
Below is a list of the hotels near the venue.
Please ask hotels directly for availability and rates.
For further information and help, please contact us.
Computational Materials Science Research Team,
RIKEN/AICS, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
e-mail: