Institute for Nuclear Theory Weekly Seminar Schedule

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Visiting Physicists for the Week of July 6 - July 10, 1998
 
Alivisatos, Paul, UC Berkeley................................July 6
Berry, R. Stephen, U. Chicago................................July 5 - July 11
Bigot, Jean-Yves, Strasbourg.................................July 5 - July 9
Bloomfield, Louis, U. Virginia...............................June 28 - July 18
Borgs, Christian, Microsoft..................................July 6
Brechignac, Catherine, CNRS Paris............................July 5 - July 9
Chelikowsky, James, U. Minnesota.............................July 5 - July 9
Chin, Siu Ah, Texas A&M......................................July 6 - July 24
Eberhardt, Wolfgang, Juelich.................................July 5 - July 9
Fiolhais, Carlos, Coimbra University.........................July 5 - July 18
Froebrich, Peter, Hahn-Meitner Institute.....................June 28 - July 11
Gerber, Gustav, U. Wuerzburg.................................July 5 - July 9
Gross, Dieter, Hahn-Meitner Institute........................July 4 - July 12
Grossman, Jeffrey, UC Berkeley...............................July 5 - July 8
Haberland, Hellmut, U. Freiburg..............................July 3 - July 10
Ho, Kai-Ming, Iowa State U...................................July 5 - July 8
Jarrold, Martin, Northwestern................................July 3 - July 8
Jellinek, Julius, Argonne....................................July 5 - July 12
Jena, Purusottam, Virginia Commonwealth U....................July 5 - July 14
Johnston, Roy, U. Birmingham.................................July 5 - July 18
Jungwirth, Pavel, J. Heyrovsky Inst..........................July 4 - July 9
Kresin, Vitaly, USC..........................................June 28 - July 11
Krotscheck, Eckhard, ITP Linz................................July 7 - July 30
Kunz, Ralph Eric, ITP Berlin.................................July 4 - July 9
Langhoff, Peter, UCSD-NPACI..................................July 6 - July 8
Lopez, Maria, U. Valladolid..................................June 27 - July 12
Louie, Steve, UC Berkeley....................................July 5 - July 8
Manninen, Matti, U. Jyvaeskylae.............................June 23 - August 4
Martin, T.P., Max-Planck Inst................................July 4 - July 10
Masson, Albert, CNRS.........................................July 5 - July 9
Nayak, Saroj, Virginia Commonwealth U........................July 5 - July 14
Pederson, Mark, Naval Res. Lab...............................July 5- July 9
Proykova, Ana, U. Sofia.....................................July 4 - August 29
Ramaswamy, Ramakrishna, Jawaharlal Nehru U...................July 5 - July 26
Rohlfing, Michael, UC Berkeley...............................July 6 - July 8
Rose-Petruck, Christoph, UC San Diego........................July 4 - July 9
Roth, Robert, GSI............................................July 1 - August 4
Rubio, Angel, Valladolid.....................................July 4 - July 10
Sadeghpour, Hossein, ITAMP...................................July 5 - July 9
Saito, Susumu, Tokyo Inst. Tech.............................June 26 - Sept. 15
Salahub, Dennis, U. Montreal.................................July 5 - July 9
Traeger, Frank, Kassel.......................................July 5 - July 8
Van Giai, Nguyen, IPN Orsay..................................June 26 - July 24
von Issendorff, Bernd, U. Freiburg...........................July 3 - July 11
von Plessen, Gero, Munich....................................July 4 - July 9
Wales, David, Cambridge......................................July 3 - July 10
Wang, Lai-Sheng, WSU.........................................June 27 - July 12
Woeste, Ludger, Freie University.............................July 2 - July 8
Yoshizaki, Koichi, Tohoku University.........................June 29 - July 11
Zanni, Martin, UC Berkeley...................................July 5 - July 9
WORKSHOP: DYNAMICS OF CLUSTERS
 
All talks will be held in the Physics/Astronomy Building, room C520.
 
Monday, July 6
"Phase Transitions"
T. Patrick Martin, Session Chair
 
8:45       Welcome  (G. Bertsch)
 
9:00       Hellmut Haberland, "Melting of Free Clusters"
 
9:30       Martin Jarrold, TBA
 
10:00      Coffee break
 
10:30      Catherine Brechignac, "Dynamics of thermal evaporation"
 
11:00      Paul Alivisatos, "Size-dependence of structural metastability in 
           semiconducting nanocrystals"
 
11:30      Steve Berry, "Simulations and theoretical models of the phase
           behavior of clusters"
 
12:00      Lunch
 
13:30      David Wales, TBA
 
14:00      Dieter Gross, "Phase transition without thermodynamic limit"
 
14:30      Christian Borgs, "Surface effects at first-order phase transitions"
 
15:00      Coffee break
 
15:30      Matti Manninen, "Simulations of cluster melting"
 
16:00      Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, "Dynamics and coexistence at phase
           transitions in finite systems"
 
17:00      Discussion
 
Tuesday, July 7
"Electronic Properties"
James Chelikowsky and Steven Louie, Session Chair
 
9:00       Kai-Ming Ho, "Structural optimization of atomic clusters using a
           genetic algorithm"
 
9:30       Mark Pederson, "Simulation of Transition Metal and Transition 
           Metal Carbide Clusters"
 
10:00      Coffee break
 
10:30      Dennis Salahub, TBA
 
11:00      Julius Jellinek, "Theoretical Studies of Metal Clusters"
 
11:30      Jeffrey Grossman, "Correlation in clusters and molecules"
 
12:00       Lunch
 
13:30       Angel Rubio, "(Mixed)-space-time method for response calculations"
 
14:00       Michael Rohlfing, "The role of electron-hole interaction in 
            ab-initio calculations of optical absorption spectra"
 
14:30       Coffee break
 
15:00       Jim Chelikowsky, "Optical and Dielectric Properties of Clusters 
            and Quantum Dots"
 
15:30       George Bertsch, "Real-time TDLDA"
 
16:00       Discussion
 
19:00       Dinner at Ivars Salmon House
 
Wednesday, July 8
"Picosecond Dynamics"
Gustav Gerber, Convenor
 
8:45        Introduction, "Decay of surface plasmons"
 
9:00        Frank Traeger, "Femtosecond time-resolved second harmonic
            generation by alkali metal particles: Towards the determination of 
            surface plasmon decay times"
 
9:30        Jean-Yves Bigot, "Dynamics of electrons in copper nanoparticles:
            the role of quasiparticles and plasmon damping"
 
10:00       Coffee break
 
10:30       Ludger Woeste, "Femtosecond probing of soft-landed, size-selected 
            silver clusters"
 
11:00       Gero von Plessen, "Damping of the surface plasmon in noble-metal
            clusters"
 
11:30       Bernd von Issendorff, "Lifetime and multi-excitation of the plasmon
            resonance of a free, mass-selected sodium cluster"
 
12:00       Wolfgang Eberhardt, "Femtosecond pump-probe photoemission from 
            clusters and solids"
 
12:30       Lunch
 
14:00       Introduction, "Clusters in moderate and higher laser fields"
 
14:15       Martin Zanni, "Time-resolved studies of ion cluster dynamics"
 
14:45       Coffee break
 
15:15       Gustav Gerber, "Ionization and fragmentation dynamics of 
            clusters in intense laser fields"
 
15:45       Christoph Rose-Petruck, "The ionization ignition model:  Ultrafast 
            electron and ion dynamics in laser driven clusters"
 
16:15       Discussion