BESC2024 Program
SCHEDULE
Thursday, August 15, 2024 (Pacific Time)
8:50 – 9:00 AM
Steven G. Louie (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
Welcome Remarks
Session I: Light-Matter Interaction and Excitonic Effects (Chair: Zhenglu Li)
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Alessandra Lanzara (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
Excitonic states and their fingerprints on electronic structure
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Shuyun Zhou (Tsinghua Univ.) (virtual)
Floquet engineering in black phosphorus
10:00 – 10:30 AM
John Rehr (Univ. of Washington)
Excited states and X-ray spectra in non-equilibrium and extreme conditions
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Jie Shan (Cornell) (virtual)
Excitonic insulators in atomic double layers
11:30 – 12 noon
Keshav Dani (OIST)
Excitons in momentum space
Session II: Excited States Coupled with Phonons and Defects (Chair: David Strubbe)
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Alfredo Correa (LLNL)
Electron and ion dynamics under large electronic excitations
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Enrico Perfetto (Univ. of Rome) (virtual)
Coherent-to-incoherent crossover in the ultrafast dynamics of electrons and phonons in photoexcited 2D materials
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Fangzhou Zhao (Max-Planck Institute)
Trap-assisted Auger-Meitner recombination from first principles
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Sheng Meng (Chinese Acad. of Sci.) (virtual)
Light control of coupled electron-lattice orders
Friday, August 16, 2024 (Pacific Time)
Session III: Recent Progress on Excited-State Methodology (Chair: Mauro Del Ben)
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Lucia Reining (ETSF) (virtual)
Strong electron-hole interaction effects in low density systems
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Tianyu Zhu (Yale)
Ab initio all-orbital DMFT for local and long-range electron correlations
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Samuel Poncé (UCLouvain) (virtual)
Toward simulation of ARPES, inelastic neutron scattering and resistive transport
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers) (virtual)
Interplay of topology and correlations: A LQSGW+DMFT study of FeSexTe1-x
11:30 – 12 noon
Jonah Haber (Stanford)
Maximally localized exciton Wannier functions: Theory, understanding, and application to exciton transport
Session IV: Novel Quantum States and Phenomena (Chair: Felipe da Jornada)
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Feng Liu (Univ. of Utah)
Excitonic Bose-Einstein condensation in a quantum semiconductor of flat band edges
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Sinisa Coh (UC Riverside)
Orbital magnetization of a metal is not a bulk property in the mesoscopic regime
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Di Xiao (Univ. of Washington) (virtual)
Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Ziyan (Zoe) Zhu (Stanford)
Microscopic theory for electron-phonon coupling in twisted bilayer graphene