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Session #1



    

Exact time-dependent density functional theory for non-perturbative dynamics of helium atom

  • Presenter: Davood Dar (Rutgers University-Newark)
  • Introduction by: Lionel Lacombe (Rutgers University-Newark)
  • Supervisor: Neepa Maitra (Rutgers University-Newark)

From the ground state to ultranonlocal effects: An analysis of exchange-correlation kernels for the uniform electron gas

  • Presenter: Aaron Kaplan (Temple University)
  • Introduction by: Niraj Nepal (Temple University)
  • Supervisor: John Perdew (Temple University)

Time-dependent exciton wavefunctions from TDDFT

  • Presenter: Jared Williams (University of Missouri-Columbia)
  • Introduction by: Matt Anderson (University of Missouri-Columbia)
  • Supervisor: Carsten Ullrich (University of Missouri-Columbia)

Renormalized singles Green’s function in Bethe-Salpeter equation for accurate excitation energy

  • Presenter : Jiachen Li (Duke University)
  • Introduction by : Weitao Yang (Duke University)
  • Supervisor: Weitao Yang (Duke University)

 


Session #2



    

New approximation to the exchange correlation potential using connector theory

  • Presenter : Ayoub Aouina (Laboratoire des solides irradiés, École polytechnique)
  • Introduction by : Vitaly Gorelov (Laboratoire des solides irradiés, École polytechnique)
  • Supervisor: Lucia Reining (Laboratoire des solides irradiés, École polytechnique)

  

On the relationship between the Kohn-Sham potential, the Paulipotential, and the exact electron factorization

  • Presenter : Jakub Kocak (ETH Zürich)
  • Introduction by : Axel Schild (ETH Zürich)
  • Supervisor: Axel Schild (ETH Zürich)

Chemical accuracy at low computational cost: Optimizing sigma-functionals for the Kohn-Sham correlation energy for different input orbitals and eigenvalues

  • Presenter : Steffen Fauser (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  • Introduction by : Egor Trushin (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  • Supervisor: Andreas Görling (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

 


Session #3



    

Forces from stochastic density functional theory in a local basis-set representation

  • Presenter : Ben Shpiro (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  • Introduction by : Marcel Fabian (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  • Supervisor: Roi Baer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

London Dispersion Interactions without Density Distortion: the Fixed Diagonal Matrices (FDM) formalism

  • Presenter : Derk Kooi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Introduction by : Derk Kooi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Supervisor: Paola Gori-Giorgi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Variations of the Hartree-Fock fractional-spin error for one electron

  • Presenter : Clotilde Marut (Université Paul Sabatier)
  • Introduction by : Fabris Kossoski (Université Paul Sabatier)
  • Supervisor: Pierre-Francois Loos (Université Paul Sabatier)

The Quest for an LDA Functional in Quantum Electrodynamics

  • Presenter : Vasil Rokaj (Max Planck Institute)
  • Introduction by : Michael Ruggenthaler (Max Planck Institute)
  • Supervisor: Angel Rubio (Max Planck Institute)

 


Session #4



    

Density-driven correlations in ensemble density-functional theory

  • Presenter: Filip Cernatic (Université de Strasbourg)
  • Introduction by: Sajanthan Sekaran (Université de Strasbourg)
  • Supervisor: Emmanuel Fromager (Université de Strasbourg)

Householder transformed density matrix functional embedding theory

  • Presenter: Sajanthan Sekaran (Université de Strasbourg)
  • Introduction by: Sajanthan Sekaran (Université de Strasbourg)
  • Supervisor: Emmanuel Fromager (Université de Strasbourg)

Exchange-correlation density functionals with spin-density accuracy for open shells

  • Presenter: Benjamin J. Pearce (Durham University)
  • Introduction by: Timothy James Callow (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
  • Supervisor: Nikitas Gidopoulos (Durham University)

Towards a density functional theory of molecular fragments

  • Presenter: Víctor Chávez (Purdue University)
  • Introduction by: Adam Wasserman (Purdue University)
  • Supervisor: Adam Wasserman (Purdue University)

Adiabatic connection approaches to thermal density functional theory

  • Presenter: Brittany Harding (University of California, Merced)
  • Introduction by: Juri Grossi (University of California, Merced)
  • Supervisor: Aurora Pribram-Jones (University of California, Merced)

 


Session #5



    

DFT Surrogate modeling with the Materials Learning Algorithms (MALA) – Theoretical Background

  • Presenter: Lenz Fiedler (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
  • Introduction by: Timothy James Callow (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
  • Supervisor: Attila Cangi (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

Constrained Machine Learning de-orbitalization of meta-GGA exchange-correlation functionals

  • Presenter: Kanun Pokharel (Tulane University)
  • Introduction by: James Furness (Tulane University)
  • Supervisor: Jianwei Sun (Tulane University)

Statistical learning of electron dynamics in molecular systems

  • Presenter: Karnamohit Ranka (University of California, Merced)
  • Introduction by: Sapana Soni (University of California, Merced)
  • Supervisor: Christine Isborn (University of California, Merced)

 


Session #6



    

Nuclear–Electronic Orbital Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory: Excited State Energies, Geometries and Dynamics

  • Presenter: Coraline Tao (Yale University)
  • Introduction by: Saswata Roy (Yale University)
  • Supervisor: Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Yale University)

Exchange-correlation kernels with density-based ingredients

  • Presenter: Santosh Neupane (Temple University)
  • Introduction by: Niraj Nepal (Temple University)
  • Supervisor: Adrienn Ruzsinszky (Temple University)