Dear collegue,

  please distribute the following announcement as widely as possible.

  The organisers

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                     CECAM/Psi-k SCHOOL + WORKSHOP
    Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and Applications
           (http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2004tddft/2004tddft.htm)

Organizers: E.K.U. Gross, M.A.L. Marques, F. Nogueira, and A. Rubio

Scientific content:

The use of TDDFT is increasing, and it is fast becoming one of the tools
of choice to get accurate and reliable predictions for excited-state
properties in solid state physics, chemistry and biophysics. However, in
international meetings, schools and workshops, TDDFT has usually been
just one of the topics covered. This means that scientists new to the
field face difficulties in grasping its many aspects that could be
alleviated if they could attend a school on TDDFT. We also believe that
a school on TDDFT would be extremely helpful for young graduate
students, post-docs and even older scientists that are envisaging a
project for which TDDFT would be the tool of choice. For this reason we
decided to organize a 10 day school on TDDFT, covering its theoretical,
practical, and numerical aspects.

This school will be followed by an international workshop, where the new
developments of TDDFT will be discussed. Students attending the Summer
School will be encouraged to attend the workshop, so they can get in
contact with state of the art research in the field of TDDFT. The
purpose of the workshop is to bring together leading experts in the
field of TDDFT with different backgrounds, like density functional,
many-body, nuclear physics and quantum chemists. This will allow the
exchange of ideas between the different fields and the creation of links
between the traditionally separated communities. We believe that the
intense and informal discussion which is possible in this kind of
workshops can contribute to the formation of a strong community in the
field of TDDFT. Some of the recent developments of TDDFT that will be
covered during the workshop include TDDFT versus current-DFT, van der
Waals interactions, applications to biological systems, new functionals,
transport phenomena, optical spectra of solids, etc. It will assemble
specialists in these and other areas and will consist of several
presentations and round-tables.

Location/Timing:
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We plan to organize this event at the ``Benasque Center for Science''
(http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/), Benasque, Spain, from August 29, 2004 to
September 11, 2004. Benasque is a beautiful town in the heart of the
Pirinees (http://www.benasque.com/). The school will take place from
August 29 to September 7, and the workshop will start September 8 and
finish on Sep. 12.

Web-site:
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 Registration and further information can be found in the web site
http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2004tddft/2004tddft.htm

Tentative program for the school:
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The school will be attended by a maximum of around 30 student, and will
last 10 days, with theoretical sessions (mostly) in the mornings and
practical (tutorial) sessions in the afternoons. The theoretical
sessions will consist of two 1.5 hour lectures + 20 minutes for
discussion. The practical sessions will last for 3 hours and a computer
will be allocated for each two students. This will allow the students to
have some time every day for studying and talking to the teachers. The
program of the school starts with basic ground-state DFT, then continues
with the theoretical and numerical aspects of TDDFT, and will end with
an outline of some of its many applications.

A preliminary program of the school can be found in the web page:
 (http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2004tddft/teachers.html)

During the school we will incentive a close and informal contact between
the students and the teachers. Furthermore, the students will be
stimulated to talk about their current research activities and future
interests. We feel that this is an important point, since young
scientists should be involved in the building up of a strong community.

Preliminary program of the workshop
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The 4 day workshop will take place between the 8-12 September 2004. It
will include both invited talks on key aspects of TDDFT (45m each),
contributed talks (30m) and a poster session. The tentative list of
invited speakers is

Walter Kohn* (Santa Barbara, USA)
Steven G. Louie (Berkeley, USA)
Roberto Car (Princeton, New Jersey, USA)
Rex Godby (York, UK)
Kieron Burke (Rutgers, New Jersey, USA)
Neepa Maitra (Rutgers, New Jersey, USA)
Xavier Lopez (San Sebastian, Spain)
Robert van Leeuwen (Groningen, The Netherlands)
Andreas Goerling (Munich, Germany)
Lucia Reining (Paris, France)
Carla Molteni (Cambridge, UK)
Ursula Roethlisberger* (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland)
Michiel Sprik (Cambridge, UK)
Ulf von Barth (Lund, Sweden)
Carl-Olof Almblahd (Lund, Sweden)
Giovanni Vignale (Univ. Missouri, USA)
Pablo Garcia Gonzalez (UAM, Madrid, Spain)
Massimiliano di Ventra (Virginia, USA)
Juerg Hutter (Zurich, Switzerland)
Risto Nieminen (Helsinki, Finland)
M. Cassida (Grenoble, France)
Yoshi Miyamoto (NEC, Japan)
Martin Fuchs (FHI, Berlin, Germany)
Roy Baer (Naval Res. Lab., Washington DC, USA)
E.K.U Gross (FU Berlin, Germany)

*) Not yet confirmed.

Format of the workshop:

We plan an informal workshop with sufficient time for discussions. The
informal character of the talks will be encouraged and presentations
which are partly tutorial, given the mixed character of the audience,
are most welcome. The time for each talk will be divided into 75% for
the presentation plus 25% discussion of discussion. Speakers will be
encouraged to divide their available time into two separate parts if
their topic falls under more than one heading.

We will select some posters from the young researchers participating in
the workshop to be presented as oral communications.

Participants to the workshop:

The call for participation will be mainly directed to students and
scientists specialized on computational physics, quantum chemistry and
biophysics. We will limit the number of participants to 60, in order to
ensure a maximum interaction between all the scientists participating.
Attendance of graduate students and postdocs will be strongly encouraged
through the inclusion of short contributed talks and a poster session.
Furthermore, we will award to Ph.D. students who present an outstanding
poster short oral presentations.

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