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Workshop Programme

Monday, 21 July: Introduction and Overview
14:00 - 15:00 Registration
15:00 - 15:15 Opening remarks
15:15 - 16:45 L1 M. Scheffler
Present status of ab initio electronic structure calculations (abstract)
16:45 Coffee
17:15 - 18:30 L2 P. Kratzer
Fast guide to density-functional calculations (abstract)
18:30 Reception and get-together

Tuesday, 22 July: Pseudopotentials and the Plane wave Method
9:00 - 10:15 L3 E. Pehlke
The plane-wave pseudopotential method (abstract)
10:15 Coffee
10:45 - 12:00 L4 M. Fuchs
Pseudopotentials for ab initio electronic structure calculations (abstract)
12:15 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 D1 E. Penev
Constructing pseudopotentials with the program fhi98PP   (talk)
14:30 - 18:00 E1 Practical session
18:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 23 July: Methodological and Calculational Aspects
9:00 - 10:00 L5 J. Neugebauer
Algorithms for total energy minimisation (abstract)
10:00 - 11:00 L6 P. Kratzer
Prerequisites for reliable modelling with first-principles methods (abstract)
11:00 Coffee
11:30 - 12:00 L7 S. Boeck
Introduction to the SFHIngX code  (abstract)
12:15 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 D2 F. Grzegorzewski
Calculation of bulk properties  (talk, handout)
14:30 - 18:00 E2 Practical session
18:30 Dinner
19:45 - 20:15 M. Scheffler
The historic Dahlem district and the Fritz-Haber-Institut
20:15- 21:30 Poster Parade

Thursday, 24 July: Surface Physics and Chemistry
9:00 - 10:00 L8 M. Fuchs
Density functionals for exchange and correlation: From LDA to GGA and beyond (abstract)
10:00 - 11:00 L9 E. Pehlke
Surface structure, chemisorption, and reactions (abstract)
11:00 Coffee
11:30 - 12:30 L10 K. Reuter
Ab initio atomistic thermodynamics and its applications in heterogeneous catalysis (abstract)
12:45 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 D3 A. Dick and S. Frank
Bulk band-structure calculations  (talk, handout)
14:30 - 18:00 E3 Practical session
18:30 Poster session (contributions by participants)

Friday, 25 July: Description and Comparison of ab inito Methods
9:00 - 9:50 L11 P. Blaha
The FP-LAPW and APW methods  (abstract)
9:50 - 10:40 L12 P. Bloechl
The Projector augmented wave method (abstract)
10:40 Coffee
11:10 - 12:00 L13 J. Behler
DMol3 - A Standard Tool for Density Functional Calculations (abstract)
12:00 - 12:30 L14 M. Scheffler
Comparison of First-Principles Methods/Codes (abstract)
12:45 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 D4 T. Hammerschmidt and L. Lymperakis
Surface relaxation and band structures  (talk, handout)
14:30 - 18:00 E4 Practical session
18:30 Dinner

Saturday, 26 July: Excursion Departure from Harnack-House

Monday, 28 July: Molecular Dynamics, Charged States, and more...
9:00 - 10:15 L15 J. Neugebauer
Multi-scale approaches to bridge length and time scales (abstract)
10:15 Coffee
10:45 - 12:00 L16 L. Ismer
First-principles molecular dynamics (abstract)
12:15 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 D5 L. Ismer
Molecular Dynamics  (talk, handout)
14:30 - 18:00 E5 Practical session
18:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 29 July: Beyond the ground state: TDDFT, exact exchange, GW
9:00 - 10:00 L17 K. Tatarczyk
When States Get Excited - or - a Short Guide to the Time-dependent DFT (abstract)
10:00 - 11:00 L18 A. Qteish
Exact-exchange approach of the Kohn-Sham formalism (abstract)
11:00 Coffee
11:30 - 12:30 L19 A. Schindlmayr
Quasiparticle band structures and the GW approximation (abstract)
12:45 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 D6 P. Eggert and M. Wahn
Quasiparticle band structures and Exact-exchange    (talk 1/ 2)
14:30 - 18:00 E6 Practical session
18:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 30 July: Engineering and Biology
9:00 - 10:15 L20 J. Dabrowski
Ab initio total energy calculations for silicon microelectronics (abstract)
10:15 Coffee
10:45 - 12:00 L21 J. Ireta
Structural analysis of biological systems (abstract)
12:15 Lunch


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