The NANOQUANTA/ETSF series of workshops has grown into a five day format with more than 100 participants.
Presentations are given by invited and contributed speakers from in- and outside the network and are organized in separate sessions, each one illustrating a particular aspect of the focus topic(s). The program of oral presentations is complemented by a dedicated poster session, but posters are almost always on display for the whole conference duration.
Discussions after every presentation and at the posters are usually active and lively. The most interesting or controversial aspects and possible new trends or paradigms that emerge throughout the conference are collected and channelled into more in-depth round table discussions that take place towards the end of the meeting. Since 2006 an expert on gender or society issues is invited to every meeting to give a seminar on one of the non-scientific topics that affects all of our daily lives as scientists and that forms part of the ETSF's social policy.
The meeting will discuss recent advancements in both conceptual developments as well as applications to real systems.
Here a non-exaustive list:
- development of new exchange-correlation kernels in TDDFT
- exciton-phonon coupling for the calculation of optical spectra and fine-spectra
- spin-dependent Bethe-Salpeter equation
- higher order corrections to the GW-method ("vertex corrections")
- self-consistency problems: iteration scheme, starting point
- X-ray spectroscopy
- quantum transport
- new materials: approaches, techniques, problems
- nano-crystals, nanotubes and nanowires
- biomolecules
- highly correlated materials
- graphene systems
- new code developments
This year, for the first time, all non-scientific tasks and meetings are placed before and after the scientific sessions, namely on Monday 22nd and on the afternoon of Saturday 27th and morning of Sunday 28th.
