Semiclassical Origins of Density Functional Approximations

September 4 - 6, 2013

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
Kieron Burke (University of California, Irvine (UCI))

Semiclassical Origins of Density Functional Approximations
PDF Presentation

 
10:00 - 10:35
Barry Simon (California Institute of Technology)

The Semiclassical Limit of Thomas Fermi Theory - Forty Years After
PDF Presentation

 
10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:50
Berthold-Georg Englert (National University of Singapore)

Density-potential functionals and Wigner functions
PDF Presentation

 
12:00 - 12:35
Jan Philip Solovej (University of Copenhagen)

The Scott correction with relativistic and magnetic effects included
PDF Presentation

12:45 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:35
2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:50
William Miller (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

Semiclassical Theory of Electronically Non-Adiabatic Dynamics

 
4:00 - 4:35
Qian Niu (University of Texas at Austin)

Berry phase effects on electronic properties
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

 
4:45 - 6:15 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:35
Elliott Lieb (Princeton University)

Current Densities in Density Functional Theory
PDF Presentation

 
9:45 - 10:20
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:35
11:45 - 12:20
Eric Heller (Harvard University)

Semiclassical statistical mechanics and correlated Thomas Fermi theory

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:35
Francis Nier (Université de Rennes I)

Phase-space approach to the bosonic mean field dynamics
PDF Presentation

 
2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:50
Jan-Michael Rost (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)

Dominant Interaction Hamiltonians
PDF Presentation

4:00 - 4:20
Attila Cangi (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)

 

4:25 - 5:00 Discussion

Friday, September 6, 2013

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:35
 
9:45 - 10:20
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:35
11:45 - 12:20
Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

Decay of correlations for normally hyperbolic trapping
PDF Presentation

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:35
Carlos Garcia-Cervera (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))

Spin-polarized transport in ferromagnetic multilayers

2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:50
Gero Friesecke (Technische Universtitat München)

'Density functional theory and optimal transport with Coulomb cost

4:00 - 4:35
Eric Cances (École Nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées)