Agenda

Thursday, December 10, 2009
Reception upon arrival after 6pm

12/11/09 Morning

7:00 am
Breakfast

8:30 am
Welcome by Renata and Lars

8:45 am
Review of exchange correlation treatments in density functional based calculations, John Perdew (Tulane University, Physics Department)

9:15 am
Density Functional Perturbation Theory and applications to phonons, Stefano Baroni (International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy)

9:45 am
Quasiharmonic theory of elastic properties, Renata Wentzcovitch (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences, U. of Minnesota)

10:15 am
Break

11:00 am
Quantum Monte Carlo methods for electronic structure calculations, David Ceperley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics Department) 11:30 am
Application of QMC Methods in mineral physics, Ron Cohen (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

12:00 pm Lunch

12/11/09 Afternoon

2:00 pm
Theoretical studies of diffusion in Earth materials, John Brodholt (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UCL, London)

2:45 pm
Plasticity in Earth materials, Patrick Cordier (Laboratoire de Structure et Propriétés de l'Etat Solide, CNRS/Université de Lille 1)

3:30 pm Break 4:00 pm
Thermal conductivity of Earth materials, Stephen Stackhouse, (Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan)

4:30 pm
Structural predictions with genetic algorithms Artem Oganov (Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University)

5:00 pm
Multi-megabar mineralogy Koichiro Umemoto (Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota)

7:00 pm
Dinner

12/12/09 Morning

7:00 am
Breakfast

8:30 am
Iron at core conditions, Dario Alfe (Department of Physics, UCL, London)

9:15 am
Inter-atomic potentials in mineral physics, Julian Gale (Western Australian Nanochemistry Research Institute, Australia)

9:45 am
Planetary fluids, Burkhard Militzer (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC- Berkeley)

10:30 am Break

11:00 am
Advances in the DFT+U method for strongly correlated materials, Matteo Cococcioni (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences, U. of Minnesota)

11:30 am
Spin transitions in mantle minerals, Renata Wentzcovitch (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences, U. of Minnesota)

12:00 pm Lunch

12/12/09 Afternoon

2:00 pm
Cluster expansion methods in Earth materials, Victor Vinograd (Goethe University, Germany)

2:45 pm
The interatomic potential model and molecular simulations of water, ice, aqueous solutions, etc, Katsuyuki Kawamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

3:15 pm
Break

3:45 pm
Silicate and oxide melts, Bijay B. Karki (Department of Computer Science, Lousiana State University)

4:15 pm
Large Scale simulations in mineral physics, Mark Ghiorso, (OFM Research Inc.)

5:00 pm
Thermodynamics of the Earth, Lars Stixrude (UCL-London, UK)

7:00 pm Free evening

12/13/09 Morning

7:00 am
Breakfast
Departure after breakfast



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