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SCHEDULE
Thursday, August 21, 2025 (Pacific Time)
8:50 – 9:00 AM
Steven G. Louie (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
Welcome Remarks
Session I: Excited States Coupled with Phonons and Defects (Chair: Zhenglu Li)
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Chris Van de Walle (UC Santa Barbara)
Modeling excited states within density functional theory
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Yuanyue Liu (UT Austin)
Electron-defect scattering from first principles
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Cheol-Hwan Park (Seoul National University)
Phonon self-energy due to coupling with electronic excitations
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Break / Group Photo
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Marco Bernardi (Caltech)
Addressing quantum interactions in materials: compression, diagrammatics, and strong coupling
11:30 – 12 noon
Zhenfa Zheng (Univ. of Southern California)
Ab initio time-dependent GW approach for nonequilibrium exciton-phonon coupled dynamics
Session II: Novel Correlated States and Coherent Phases (Chair: Mauro Del Ben)
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Ting Cao (Univ. of Washington)
Controlling magnetism and excitons in 2D materials: From vdW magnets to moiré superlattices
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Fang Zhang (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
Signatures of excitonic insulating phase in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide
2:30 – 3:30 PM
Poster Session
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Gurjyot Sethi (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
Quantum theory of exciton magnetic moment
4:00 – 4:30 PM
Cyrus E. Dreyer (Stony Brook / Flatiron)
Fermi-liquid T2 resistivity: Dynamical mean-field theory meets experiment
Friday, August 22, 2025 (Pacific Time)
Session III: Excited-State Phenomena in Complex Systems (Chair: David Strubbe)
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Sahar Sharifzadeh (Boston Univ.)
Using approximate methods to understand exciton-phonon interactions in materials
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Xifan Wu (Temple Univ.)
Probing hydrogen-bond ordering via optical absorption in liquid water and ice
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Linn Leppert (Univ. of Twente)
Excitons in low-dimensional metal-halide perovskites from first-principles calculations
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Victor Yu (Argonne National Laboratory)
Advancing large-scale excited-state materials simulations for quantum technologies
11:30 – 12 noon
Bowen Hou (Yale)
Machine learning accelerated many-body calculations in real materials
Session IV: Recent Progress on Excited-State Methodology (Chair: Felipe da Jornada)
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Graham Fleming (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
Energy flow and its regulation in the photosystem II supercomplex
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Aaron Altman (Stanford)
Excitonic and atomic evolution from many-body perturbation theory
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Dipti Jasrasaria (Univ. of Chicago)
Vibrational dynamical mean-field theory: Simulating strongly anharmonic lattice dynamics beyond perturbation theory
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Stephen Gant (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
Phonon Screening in the Bethe-Salpeter equation: Mechanisms of exciton dissociation
4:00 – 4:15 PM
Poster Prize Announcement / Conclusing Remarks
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