Special Symposium


Advances in Theoretical Spectroscopy


Physics Astronomy Building, 5th Floor, University of Washington
Wednesday afternoon, June 24, 2015 to Thursday morning, June 25, 2015

Co-organizers: Towfiq Ahmed, Jose Mustre de Leon, Luke Campbell

Special Symposium Meeting Program (Tentative Schedule)




WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015


Scientific Program (Physics Astronomy Building, 5th Floor) (Updated June 19, 2015)

 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm  Arrival and Check-in at Physics Astronomy Building, 5th Floor  Directions from Haggett Hall
 Time  Speaker  Title  
 1:30 pm - 1:40 pm  John Rehr Introductory Remarks
 1:40 pm - 2:00 pm  Jose Mustre de Leon FEFF3 the importance of the exchange-correlation potential and curved wave corrections in Xafs
 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm  Alexei Ankudinov FEFF6 to FEFF9 expansions of x-ray computational toolbox
 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm  Eric Shirley Recyclable metal, friends, commoners and cinders—spectroscopic studies in Al, Si, diamond, LiF and MgO
 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm  Xiaosong Li Energy-Specific Coupled-Cluster Theory for Calculating X-ray Absorption K-edge Spectra
 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm  John Vinson BSE calculations at scale: moving from 10s to 100s of atoms
 3:20 pm - 3:50 pm Coffee/Tea Break  
 3:50 pm - 4:10 pm  Gilles Hug Bucky ball crystal revisited from a spectroscopic point of view
 4:10 pm - 4:30 pm  Bruce Ravel Self-consistent potentials and EXAFS analysis
 4:30 pm - 4:50 pm  Luke Campbell Radiation Track Physics
 4:50 pm - 5:05 pm  John Rehr Theoretical electron and x-ray spectroscopy - are we there yet?
 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  Private Dinner  Close friends, colleagues, collaborators and former students



THURSDAY, JUNE 25TH, 2015

Scientific Program (Physics Astronomy Building, 5th Floor)

 Time      
 9:00 am - 12:00 pm  Round table (with short coffee break)