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Day 1 - September, 14th 2009

Atlantic Hotel - Universum

• 18:00 to 21:00 - Registration

Day 2 - September, 15th 2009

House of Science – Downtown

• 08:30 to 08:45 - Welcome
• 08:45 to 09:45 - Mark A. Ratner
  
  Modeling Single Molecule Transport: Some Understanding, Some Confusion

Session A: Single molecular transport (House of Science) Chair: H. Weber

• 09:45 to 10:30 - Jan M. van Ruitenbeek
  
  Single molecular junctions with direct bonding to the carbon π-electrons
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:30 to 11:45 - Michel Calame
  
  Formation mechanisms and functionality in molecular junctions
• 11:45 to 12:15 - Danny Porath
  
  SP1 Protein-Nanoparticle Hybrids as Building Blocks for memory units, logic machines and nanotubes
• 12:15 to 13:45 - Lunch Break
• 13:45 to 14:30 - Felix von Oppen
  
  Discontinuous Euler instability in nanoelectromechanical systems
• 14:30 to 15:00 - Ferdinand Evers
  
  Switching mechanisms in transport through single molecules
• 15:00 to 15:30 - Fabian Pauly
  
  Control of transport properties by molecular structure
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 16:30 - Ilya V. Pobelov
  
  Electrochemical Gate-controlled Electron Transport of Redox-active Single Perylene Bisimide Molecular Junctions
• 16:30 to 17:00 - Dmitry Ryndyk
  
  Modeling electron transport through single molecules: vibrons and polarons
• 17:00 to 17:30 - Heike Riel
  
  Charge Transport Through Single-Molecule Junctions – The Influence of Anchor Groups
• 17:30 to 18:30 - Discussion

19:00 Welcome Reception (Bremen Town Hall)

Day 3 - September, 16th 2009

Session B: Inelastic effects (House of Science) Chair: K. Richter

• 08:30 to 09:15 - Douglas Natelson
  
  Simultaneous measurements of Raman response and electronic conduction in single molecules
• 09:15 to 10:00 - Nicolás Lorente
  
  Molecule-substrate decoupling in quantum transport in molecular systems: from NDR to inelastic effects
• 10:00 to 10:30 - Jascha Repp
  
  Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Molecules on Thin Insulating Films
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Mads Brandbyge
  
  Electrical transport and molecular dynamics at finite voltage bias – DFT/NEGF studies
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Jose Ignacio Pascual
  
  Vibrational Kondo effect in metal-free organic molecules
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:30 - Alessio Gagliardi
  
  Joule heating and cooling effects in molecular electronics
• 14:30 to 15:00 - Jeffrey R. Reimers
  
  How Molecular Symmetry Controls Molecular Electronic Conduction
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Klaus Richter
  
  Switching and memory effects in single molecular junctions
• 16:00 to 16:30 - Coffee Break

Session C: Time-dependent methods – electron correlation Chair: G. Cuniberti

• 16:30 to 17:15 - Abraham Nitzan
  
  Current transfer
• 17:15 to 18:00 - Kristian Thygesen
  
  Selfconsistent GW Calculations of Quantum Transport in Molecular Junctions

19:00 – 23:00 Conference Dinner (Juergenshof – Bremen)

Day 4 - September, 17th 2009

Session C: Time-dependent methods – electron correlation (BCCMS - UNiversity Campus, IFW - TAB-Building) Chair: G. Cuniberti

• 08:30 to 09:15 - E.K.U. Gross
  
  Time-dependant and optical control of quantum transport
• 09:15 to 10:00 - GuanHua Chen
  
  Transient currents through carbon nanotube-based molecular electronic devices and the equivalent electric circuit
• 10:00 to 10:30 - Thomas Niehaus
  
  Transient Electron Dynamics in Open Systems : A Density Functional based Tight-Binding Approach
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Stefan Kurth
  
  Multiple Steady States and Derivative Discontinuities in Time-Dependent Quantum Transport

Session D: Spin and Kondo transport, Chair: F. Evers

• 11:45 to 12:30 - Daniel C. Ralph
  
  Spin and Charge Transport in Nanoparticles, Carbon Nanotubes, and Small Molecules
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:30 - Heiko Weber
  
  Charge Transport in Single-Molecule Contacts: Vibrations and Kondo Physics
• 14:30 to 15:00 - Nicolae Atodiresei
  
  Electronic and magnetic properties of PI-conjugated molecules on metal surfaces
• 15:00 to 15:30 - Daniel Wortmann
  
  All-electron calculations of spin-polarized transport in molecular junctions
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break

Session E: Optical induced transport and Biosystems, Chair: M. Thoss

• 16:00 to 16:45 - Juan Carlo Cuevas
  
  Thermoelectricity and photo-conductance in single-molecule junctions
• 16:45 to 17:15 - Gianaurelio Cuniberti
  
  Interplay of mechanical and electrical degrees of freedom in STM based molecular junctions
• 17:15 to 17:45 - Marcus Elstner
  
  Combined DFT and Landauer approach for hole transfer along classical MD simulation of DNA-molecules
• 17:45 to 18:15 - Artur Erbe
  
  Electrical transport through double-stranded and G-quadruplex DNA
• 18:15 to 18:45 - Ulrich Kleinekathoefer
  
  Optical control of transport through molecular junctions
• 18:45 to 21:00 - Poster Session

Day 5 - September, 18th 2009

Session F: Molecular and nanoscale devices (BCCMS - University Campus, IFW - TAB-Building) Chair: E. Gross

• 08:30 to 09:15 - Thomas Bjornholm
  
  Single-molecule electron transfer in solid state Three-terminal devices: STATUS AND CHALLENGES FOR MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS WITH SINGLE MOLECULES
• 09:15 to 10:00 - Herre van der Zant
  
  Three-terminal transport through a single molecule
• 10:00 to 10:30 - Milena Grifoni
  
  A benzene interference single-electron transistor
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Goeran Wendin
  
  Computing with molecules and molecular networks
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Alessandro Pecchia
  
  Multiscale approaches for nano-electric devices: from density functional tight binding to continuous models
• 12:30 to 13:00 - Maarten Wegewijs
  
  Transport through single molecule transistors - beyond the sequential tunneling and Born-Oppenheimer approximation

14:00 Departure