Dear Colleagues,

As the abstract submission deadline for the 2016 APS March Meeting approaches, we would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a contributed talk to the DMP Focus Topic "Many-Body Perturbation Theory for Electronic Excitations in Materials"

This focus topic is new to the APS March Meeting. It is dedicated to recent advances in many-body perturbation theory for electronic excitations, their scalable implementations in electronic structure codes, and their applications to functional materials, interfaces, molecules, and nano-structures. For a more detailed description of the focus topic please follow this link: http://goo.gl/0dtv4j

Focus topics play a critical role at the March Meeting of the APS in general and the Division of Materials Physics (DMP) in particular. Their aim is to promote and coordinate active, focused areas of research at the March Meeting. The number of invited speakers in a focus topic, the continuity of the focus topic in subsequent years and, thus, the overall success of a focus session is determined by the number of contributed abstracts. Hence, we strongly encourage you to strengthen this exciting and active area of research by submitting your abstract to this focus topic.

Abstracts can be submitted via the APS website: http://abstracts.aps.org

The deadline for abstract submission is Friday, November 6.

Looking forward to seeing you at the 2016 March Meeting of the APS,

Noa Marom, Tulane University
Claudia Draxl, Humboldt Universität Berlin
Volker Blum, Duke University
Thomas Körzdörfer, University of Potsdam