Symposium: Advancing Electronic Structure Theory and Many-body Physics
Opening Remarks: 9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
Associate Dean of Physical Sciences, UCI
Session 1 (Chair: Kim Daas) - Tensor Network Methods on Lattice Models
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Max Silvester: Unusual energy spectra of matrix product states
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Miles Stoudenmire: New developments in tensor networks for higher-dimensional quantum lattice model systems
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee Break + Discussion
Session 2 (Chair: Mihira Sogal) - Mixed Quantum Classical Approaches for Nonadiabatic Dynamics
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Patricia Vindel-Zandbergen: Predictive theoretical photochemistry for X-ray probing of chemical bond dynamics
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Sourav Majumdar: The Mechanism of Non-Kasha Fluorescence in Pyrene
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Lunch Break
Session 3 (Chair: Steven Crisostomo) - Response-Based Time Dependent Density Functional Theory
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Davood Dar: Response-Based Reformulation of TDDFT for Accurate Nonperturbative Strong-Field Electron Dynamics
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Kimberly Daas: Time Dependent Ensemble Density Functional Theory
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Anna Baranova: Excited state densities from LR-TDDFT: a real-space perspective
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Coffee Break
Session 4 (Chair: Patricia Vindel-Zandbergen) - Improving Ground State Density Functional Theory
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Jeffrey Tsai: The Natural Determinant Reference
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Steven Crisostomo: Potential errors in density functional theory
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Mihira Sogal: Density Corrected DFT: Dispersion and Dipoles