Schedule: Density Functional Theory, Montauk 2006

Tuesday, September 5th

Date	Time		Speaker		Title
	Continental Breakfast-Waterside room ( 8:00am-9:00am )
	9:00-9:10	Wei Ku		Opening remarks
	9:10-9:50	Seamus Davis		Atomic Resolution Spectroscopic STM for Correlated Electron Systems: Status and Future Directions
	9:50-10:30	Elbio Dagotto		Recent Developments in the Study of Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems
	10:30-10:40	coffee break
	10:40-11:20	Richard M. Martin		Density functional theory meets strong correlation - on the way to St. Ives
	11:20-12:00	Gabriel Kotliar		Some Applications of Dynamical Mean Field Theory
Lunch-Lobby Patio ( 12:00pm-1:30pm )
	1:30-2:10		Thomas Maier		The Dynamical Cluster Quantum Monte Carlo Method: Toward an Understanding of High-Temperature Superconductors
	2:10-2:50		Karsten Held		Dynamical vertex approximation- a step beyond dynamical mean field theory
	2:50-3:00		coffee break
	3:00-3:40		Peter Reynolds		On Wave Function Nodes of Small Atoms: Evading the Sign Problem
	3:40-4:20		Ting-Kuo Lee	Recent progress on the study of t-J type models by variational approach
Discussion/Networking ( 4:20pm-6:00pm )
Dinner-Turtle Room ( 6:00pm-8:00pm )

Wednesday, September 6th

Date	Time	Speaker	Title
	Continental Breakfast-Waterside Room ( 8:00am-9:00am )
	9:10-9:50	John Hill	Electronic excitations in transition metal oxides: from femtoseconds to minutes
	9:50-10:30	Wei-Guo Yin	Wannier States Analysis of the LDA+U Band Structure:An Realistic Approach To Effective Hamiltonians For Strongly Correlated Electronic Materials
	10:30-10:40	coffee break
	10:40-11:20	Garnet Chan	Ab-initio Density Matrix Renormalization Group and Canonical Transformation Theories
	11:20-12:00	Frithjof Anders	Extension of the Numerical Renormalization Group to Non-Equilibrium: Real-time dynamics of a single spin coupled to Fermionic and Bosonic Baths
Lunch-Lobby Patio ( 12:00pm-1:30pm )
	1:30-2:10	Uli Schollwoeck	Time-dependence and impurity physics with DMRG
	2:10-2:50	Reinhard M. Noack	Recent Issues on Density Matrix Renormalization Group
	2:50-3:00	coffee break
	3:00-3:40	Robert Harrison	Chemistry free of basis set errors
	3:40-4:20	Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl	What can we learn from the exact exchange method ?
Poster and Networking 1 ( 4:20pm-6:00pm )
Dinner-Turtle-Room ( 6:00pm-8:00pm )

Thursday, September 7th

Date	Time	Speaker	Title
	Continental Breakfast-Waterside Ballroom ( 8:00am-9:00am )
	9:10-9:50	James W. Allen	Opportunities and challenges from electron spectroscopy for realistic correlated electron theory
	9:50-10:30	Andre'-Marie Tremblay	Insights into correlated layered organics and cuprates from non-perturbative approaches
	10:30-10:40	coffee break
	10:40-11:20	Oleg Pankratov	Putting in the electron-hole correlations in the kernel:excitons in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
	11:20-12:00	Giovanni Vignale	Time-dependent density functional theory beyond the local density approximation
Lunch-Lobby Patio ( 12:00pm-1:30pm )
	1:30-2:10	John W. Perdew	Self-Interaction Correction of Density Functional Approximations: Promise and Problems
	2:10-2:50	Helmut Eschrig	High-precision LSDA+U+CPA with a local basis:application to doped cuprates
	2:50-3:00	coffee break
	3:00-3:40	Martin Head-Gordon	Simple wavefunction models for strong electron correlations
	3:40-4:20	Shiwei Zhang	An auxiliary-field approach for electronic structure computations
Poster & Networking 2 ( 4:20pm-6:00pm )
Dinner-Turtle Room ( 6:00pm-8:00pm )

Friday, September 8th

Date	Time	Speaker	Title
	Continental Breakfast-Waterside Ballroom ( 8:00am-9:00am )
	9:10-9:50	Cyrus Umrigar	Energy Optimization of Many-Body Wave Functions
	9:50-10:30	Sandro Sorella	Weak chemical bonds in aromatic molecules by an efficient Resonating Valence Bond approach
	10:30-10:40	coffee break
	10:40-11:20	Weitao Yang	Building Self-Interaction-Free Density Functionals from the Adiabatic Connection
	11:20-12:00	Byounghak Lee	Exchange-correlation and semicore states in the screened-exchange density functional method
Lunch-Lobby Patio ( 12:00pm-1:30pm )

Posters

Antonio Cancio: "On developing an empirical Laplacian-based model for the adiabatic
exchange-correlation energy density"
Santanu Chaudhuri: " Study of the mechanism of catalysis in Hydrogen storage materials
using density functional theory"
Ching Cheng: "Possible origins of the enhanced magnetic moment and conductivity in NiFe_2O_4 spinel ultrathin films"
Armin Comanac: "Low temperature optical properties of the one-band Hubbard model-a DMFT calculation"
Claude Ederer: " Exchange couplings in the spinel magnets CoCr_2O_4 and MnCr_2O_4: an LDA+U study"
Emanuel Gull: "Performance Comparison of DMFT solvers"
Richard Hennig: "Quantum Monte-Carlo calculations benchmark the accuracy of density functionals
for defects and crystal structures of silicon"
Patrick Huang: "Correlated embedded wave functions in condensed matter: application of the many-body Kondo state"
Robert Klie: "Direct observation of correlated behaviour during magnetic transitionin a mixed-valence manganite model interface"
Boris Kozinsky: "First principles study of electronic structure of nanotubes"
" Dielectric screening and Luttinger liquid parameters"
Chi-Cheng Lee: "In-gap d-d excitations of NiO and CoO investigated by non-resonant inelastic X-ray scattering and energy-resolved Wannier Functions"
Chungwei Lin: "The DMFT calculation on manganite superlattice"
Ru-Fen Liu: "Ab initio studies of the possible magnetism in BN sheet by non-magnetic impurites and defects"
Adrienn Ruzsinszky: "The problem of fractional charge dissociation in DFT"
Julien Toulouse: "Optimization of quantum Monte-Carlo wave functions by energy minimization"
Meta van Faassen: "Toward low-energy electron-molecule scattering with TDDFT"
Dmitri Volja: "Lattice, charge, magnetic and orbital ordering of insulating La_0.5Ca_0.5MnO_3"
Wan Xiangang: "Calculated magnetic exchange interaction in Mott-Hubbard systems using LDA-DMFT method"
Daoxin Yao: "Universal scaling of the Neel temperature of near-quantum-critical quasi-two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnets"
Quan Yin: "Photoemission spectroscopy in transition metal oxides: comparison between LDA+DMFT and experiment"