MORE 2008 - Meeting on Optical Response in Extended Systems November 19-21, 2008 Vienna/Austria
MORE of LESS MORE 2008 follows the spirit of the highly successful Low Energy Spectrometry Symposium (LESS) that took place in Vienna in 2007. Optical absorption spectroscopy, resonant inelastic X-ray scattering, reflection EELS, ellipsometry, and reflectance difference spectroscopy are just a few of a large variety of experimental probes to explore the optical and higher-energy response of materials, including elemental solids, compounds, molecules on surfaces or complex nanostructures. On the theoretical side many body perturbation theory (MBPT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) represent state-of-the-art developments to describe excitation processes in materials. Both, theory and experiment being complementary, ideally should go hand in hand to promote development and leading edge research. Bringing together experimentalists and theoreticians of these different fields is the main intention of MORE 2008. To ensure lively and fruitful discussions and a personal atmosphere, we limit the number of participants including speakers to 50. Contributions in the form of posters are readily welcome. For more information and registration please visit http://www.physics.at/cms/index.php?section=31 With kind regards Joachim Luitz Programme Wed, 19.11.2008 14:10-16:10 Tutorial 1 - Lucia Reining (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Electronic response - theoretical approaches and link to experiment 16:30-18:30 Tutorial 2 - Peter Schattschneider (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) EELS in the TEM Thu, 20.11.2008 09:15-10:00 Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl (MU Leoben, Austria) The role of electron-phonon interaction in photoemission spectra: ab ab-initio study 10:10-10:45 Andrea Marini (Univ. of Rome, Italy) Breakdown of the electronic picture of the excitonic states: evidence of phonon mediated bright to dark (and vice-versa) transitions 11:15-12:00 Mathieu Kociak (CNRS-Orsay, France) Nanometer-scale mapping of electromagnetic fields in the visible range 12:00-12:45 Georg Kresse (CMS Vienna, Austria) TD-DFT using hybrid functionals: an alternative to GW & BSE? 14:15-15:00 Maria A. Loi (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Organic-inorganic hybrids from photophysical properties to devices 15:00-15:45 P. Zeppenfeld (JKU Linz, Austria) Reflectance Difference Spectroscopy for quantitative surface and thin film analysis 16:15-17:00 Wilfried Sigle (MPI f. Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany) Valence electron spectroscopy using energy-filtered TEM 17:00-17:45 Wolfgang Werner (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) to be announced Fri, 21.11.2008 09:00-09:45 Angel Rubio (Univ. del Pays Vasco, Spain) Modelling excited state dynamics in low dimensional systems 09:45-10:30 Ricardo Gomez-Abal (FHI Berlin, Germany) All-electron GW method based on LAPW: Implementation and applications 11:00-11:45 Ralf Hambach (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Electron Energy Loss Spectra of Graphite, Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes: Plasmon Dispersion and Crystal Local Field Effects. 11:45-12:30 Michael G. Ramsey (Universtiy of Graz, Austria) Angle-resolved photoemission studies of intra-and inter-molecular band dispersion 14:00-14:45 Johan Verbeeck (Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium) Recovering the dielectric function from nanoscale regions with low loss EELS: dream or reality? 14:45-15:30 F.J. Garcia de Abajo (CSIC Madrid, Spain) Plasmons in metallic nanoparticles -- www.luitz.com