Program of the RPA workshop

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Schedule (in progress)

Talks will be followed by discussions.

There is a ~20 minute break every pair of lectures.

	Monday 25 January	Tuesday 26 January	Wednesday 27 January	Thursday 28 January	Friday 29 January
9:00am		Peter Schuck / Angel Rubio	Julien Toulouse / Andy Görling	Peter Ring / Panagiota Papakonstantinou
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		Mark Casida / Jan Linderberg	Paula Mori Sanchez / Gustavo Scuseria	Thomas Duguet / Danilo Gambacurta	Informal Discussions
12:30pm		Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
2:00pm	Informal Get Together	Jorge Dukelsky / Osvaldo Civitarese	Jacek Dobaczewski / Calvin Johnson	Vince Ortiz / John Dobson	Informal Discussions
		BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
		Lucia Reining / Xavier Gonze	Janos Ángyán / Georg Jansen	Alex Tkatchenko / Henk Enhuis	Informal Discussions
		BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
		John Perdew / Adrienn Ruzsinszky	Peter Schuck / Kazuhiro Yabama	Dinh Dang / Doru Delion	Informal Discussions
7:30pm	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner

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If you would like to participate in group dinners, please follow this link Dinner and add your name and days of interest.

There will be a wi-fi available during the entire workshop.

A room will be available on Monday 25 for an informal get-together and on Friday 29 for informal post-lectures discussions.

Program

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Tuesday Morning Overview Talks

• Peter Schuck, An overview of RPA from the Nuclear Physics perspective, 40 min
• Angel Rubio, An overview of RPA from the Condensed Matter perspective, 40 min
• Mark Casida, An overview of RPA from the Quantum Chemistry perspective, 40 min
• Jan Linderberg, The self-consistent RPA ground state and its connection with projected BCS wavefunctions, 40 min

Other Research Lectures

• János Ángyán, Various ground state correlation energy expressions from RPA, 30 min
• Roger Balian, Variational evaluation of fluctuations and correlations: extended mean-field and RPA approach, 30 min
• Osvaldo Civitarese, Extensions of the RPA, are they correct?, 30 min
• Henk Enhuis, TBA, 30 min
• Nguyen Dinh Dang, The Selfconsistent Quasiparticle RPA and Its Description of Thermal Pairing Properties in Nuclei, 30 min
• Doru Delion, Self-Consistent RPA in a three-level Lipkin model and the Goldstone mode, 30 min
• Jacek Dobaczewski, RPA strength functions in nuclei with iterative Arnoldi diagonalization, 20 min
• John Dobson, How reliable is the RPA for van der waals and dispersion interactions?, 30 min
• Thomas Duguet, Multi-reference Energy Density Functional calculations for nuclei, 40 min
• Jorge Dukelsky, RPA selfconsistency and the killing condition, 25 min
• Danilo Gambacurta, Collective Excitations within the Second RPA, 30 min
• Andy Görling, Promising first results with an RPA correlation functional based on the frequency-dependent Kohn-Sham exchange kernel, 30 min
• Xavier Gonze, The two faces of RPA: density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory, 30 min
• Georg Jansen, Testing various RPA ground state energy expressions for atomic correlation energies, 15 min
• Calvin Johnson, How approximate is the random phase approximation? Comparing RPA against full configuration-interaction calculations, 25 min
• Paula Mori Sanchez, Failure of the RPA correlation energy, 35 min
• Vince Ortiz, Consistent ground states and renormalizations in ab initio propagator theory of molecules, 25 min
• Panagiota Papakonstantinou, Large-scale Second-RPA calculations, 35 min
• John Perdew, The RPA in a Density-Functional Context, and Its Semilocal Correction, 30 min
• Lucia Reining, Some theoretical and practical aspects of RPA in the context of many-body perturbation theory, 30 min
• Peter Ring, RPA in superfluid nuclei, 40 min
• Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Fully Nonlocal Correction of RPA, 30 min
• Peter Schuck (in lieu of M. Tohyama), Extended RPA from time dependent density matrix theory, 25 min
• Gustavo Scuseria, RPA and coupled cluster theory & results using range separation, 40 min
• Alex Tkatchenko, Dispersion coefficients from RPA: Implications for intermolecular interactions, 25 min
• Julien Toulouse, Adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation density-functional theory based on range separation, 30 min
• Kazuhiro Yabana, Real-time calculations for RPA response and nonlinear dynamics, 30 min

Just Attending - Not Lecturing

• Gaston Berthier
• Eric Cances
• Francesco Catara
• Aron Cohen
• Paola Gori-Giorgi
• Marcella Grasso
• Stefan Kurth
• Sebastian Lebegue
• Mathieu Lewin
• Ru-Fen Liu
• Fred Manby
• Daniel Pena Arteaga
• Andreas Savin
• Marcel Vénéroni
• Wuming Zhu

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