BESC2023 Program
SCHEDULE
Thursday, February 16, 2023 (Pacific Standard Time)
8:50 – 9:00 AM
Steven G. Louie (UC Berkeley/LBNL)
Welcome Remarks
Session I: Nonequilibrium Excited-State Dynamics (Chair: Zhenglu Li)
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Priya Vashishta (USC)
Machine Learning and Quantum Materials Dynamics
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Yuan Ping (UC Santa Cruz) (virtual)
Ab initio open quantum dynamics for spin and electron relaxation in solids
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Bryan Wong (UC Riverside)
Probing electron dynamics of complex material systems in real time
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Gianluca Stefanucci (Univ. of Rome) (virtual)
Nonequilibrium exciton superfluids: Stability, time-dependent ARPES spectrum and Floquet topological phases
11:30 – 12 noon
Jia Yin (LBNL)
Dynamic mode decomposition of nonequilibrium Green's function for quantum many-body systems
Session II: Excited-State Phenomena in Complex Materials (Chair: Felipe da Jornada)
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Su-Ying Quek (National Univ. of Singapore)
Many-body effects in the magnetic and non-linear optical response of low-dimensional quantum materials
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Sivan Refaely-Abramson (Weizmann Inst.)
Excitons in materials: from atomic structure to interaction dynamics
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Liang Z. Tan (LBNL)
Quantum defect dephasing times from first-principles
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Yu He (Yale)
Role of electron-phonon interaction in a 1D excitonic system
4:00 – 4:30 PM
Jingwei Jiang (UC Berkeley/LBNL)
Topology engineering of electronic states in graphene nanoribbons
Friday, February 17, 2023 (Pacific Standard Time)
Session III: Recent Progress on Excited-State Methodology (Chair: Mauro Del Ben)
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Leeor Kronik (Weizmann Inst.) (virtual)
Accurate prediction of solid-state electronic and optical excitations from density functional theory
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Francesco Mauri (Sapienza Università di Roma) (virtual)
Measuring phonon and plasmon dispersions of suspended 2D materials in the electron microscope
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Vojtech Vlcek (UC Santa Barbara)
Excitation dynamics and quasiparticle-quasiparticle interactions
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 – 11:30 AM
David Strubbe (UC Merced)
Revisiting excited-state forces from the Bethe-Salpeter equation: implementation, approximations, and applications
11:30 – 12 noon
Bartomeu Monserrat (Cambridge)
Phonons in strongly correlated materials
Session IV: Novel Excitonic States and Phenomena (Chair: David Strubbe)
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Feng Wang (UC Berkeley/LBNL)
Observation of Intralayer Charge Transfer Moire Excitons in TMD heterostructures
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Xiaodong Xu (Univ. of Washington)
Dipole ladders with giant Hubbard U in a moiré exciton lattice
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Archana Raja (LBNL)
Spatial and temporal dynamics of excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Yang-Hao Chan (Academia Sinica)
Exciton-phonon dephasing and linewidth from first-principles in monolayer MoS2
4:00 – 4:30 PM
Antonios Alvertis (LBNL)
Phonon-induced screening and dissociation of excitons from first principles