Dear colleagues,

we would like to invite you to the workshop on "Accelerating Theoretical Spectroscopy for Complex Multiscale Materials" taking place at the Lorentz Center in Leiden (Netherlands) from 20 - 24 March 2023.

Theoretical spectroscopy, i.e., calculating excitations from first principles, allows for an atomistic understanding of the formation, transport, and dissociation of excited states. While it can thus contribute importantly to the understanding and design of new materials, e.g., for energy conversion and storage, applications in practice are often challenged by the complexity of real-world materials and the required span of length- and time scales. The workshop aims to address this challenge by bringing together scientists from different fields such as many-body perturbation- and density functional-theory to discuss how theoretical spectroscopy can be advanced. The workshop will highlight new theoretical and computational developments, exploiting concepts from stochastic and low scaling methods, embedding and machine learning techniques, as well as algorithms for HPC.

Confirmed participants:

• Roi Bear (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Hilke Bahmann (University of Saarland)
• Mario Barbatti (Aix Marseille University)
• Mauro Del Ben (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
• Ivan Duchemin (Grenoble)
• Claudia Filippi (University of Twente)
• Dorothea Golze (TU Dresden)
• J. Mark Martirez (Princeton)
• Johannes Neugebauer (WWU Muenster)
• Patrick Rinke (Aalto University)
• Michael Rohlfing (WWU Muenster)
• Matthias Rupp (University of Konstanz)
• Rianne van den Berg (Microsoft Research)
• Luuk Visscher (Free University of Amsterdam)
• Julia Westermayr (University of Leipzig)
• Jan Wilhelm (University of Regensburg)

Registration for this workshop is open until end of December 2022.

We are inviting registrations from researchers at all career stages. Participation is free.

As the total number of participants is limited, we aim to make a definite decision on confirmation of the participation by mid January 2023.

If you have any question, feel free to contact [email protected].

Bjoern Baumeier
On behalf of the Scientific Organizers
Bjoern Baumeier (TU Eindhoven)
Linn Leppert (University of Twente)
Stephan Kümmel (University of Bayreuth)
Sandra Huber (University of Zürich)