SMALL is Beautiful: Theory Meets Experiment

Berlin, Germany, November 9 - November 12, 2011

Program

We recommend to arrive to Berlin on November 8th and leave on November 12th or later. The conference will take place from 9 am on November 9th to 7pm on November 11th.

Wednesday, November 9th.
08:15 - 09:00Registration (Harnack Haus, Jesse Owens Saal)
09:00 - 09:10Introductory remarks
09:10 - 10:10State-of-the-art in electronic structure codes (V. Blum)
10:10 - 11:10Concepts of condensed-matter theory and DFT (S. Levchenko)
11:10 - 11:30Break
11:30 - 12:30Approaches for van der Waals interactions (A. Tkatchenko)
12:30 - 14:00Lunch (FU - Mensa)
14:00 - 15:00Theoretical spectroscopies (M. L. Bocquet)
15:00 - 16:00Approaches beyond DFT in terms of accuracy (X. Ren)
16:00 - 16:30Break
16:30 - 17:30Approaches beyond DFT in terms of computational cost (J. Behler)
19:30 - open endOuting in "Brauhaus Lemke"
Thursday, November 10th.
09:00 - 11:00STM and STS techniques (A. Vazques de Parga and T. Linderoth)
11:10 - 11:30Break
11:30 - 12:30IR Spectroscopy (R. Raval)
12:30 - 14:00Lunch (FU - Mensa)
14:00 - 16:00XPS and XAS techniques (A. Schnadt)
16:00 - 16:30Break
16:30 - 17:30LEED technique (G. Held)
17:30 - 18:30Workshop: fitting data analysis (A. Schnadt and G. Held)
Friday, November 11th.
09:00Introduction and coordinators report (J. O'Shea)
09:15Tour de Table - Introduction of all the supervisors
09:30Fellow presentations. Part I (10 min. each, comprising 7 min. presentation and 3 min. questions)
10:30Break
11:00Fellow presentations. Part II (10 min. each, comprising 7 min. presentation and 3 min. questions)
12:30Lunch (FU - Mensa)
14:00Fellow presentations. Part III (10 min. each, comprising 7 min. presentation and 3 min. questions)
15:00Meeting between project officer and the fellows (During this time there will be a supervisory board meeting)
16:30Discussion and closing remarks
17:00Poster session and drinks reception
19:00Close