Day 1 - May, 9th 2010

Quantum and semiclassical dynamics

• 13:00 to 14:00 - Registration
• 14:00 to 14:45 - Maurizio Persico
  
  Extending time and size limitations in non-adiabatic trajectory simulations.
• 14:45 to 15:30 - David J. Tannor
  
  Bohmian Mechanics with Complex Action: An Exact Formulation of Quantum Mechanics with Complex Trajectories
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 16:45 - David Manolopoulos
  
  Speeding up path integral simulations
• 16:45 to 17:30 - Oliver Kuehn
  
  Nonadiabatic Quantum Dynamics and Laser Control in of Br$_2$ in Solid Argon

Day 2 - May, 10th 2010

Excited state electronic structure and dynamics

• 08:00 to 08:30 - Coffee Break
• 08:30 to 09:15 - Andreas Dreuw
  
  Energy and Electrontransfer in Light Harvesting Complexes: a quantum chemical perspective
• 09:15 to 10:00 - Benedetta Mennucci
  
  How the environment Controls Electronic Energy Transfer and Light Harvesting: Toward a Quantum-Mechanical Description of Reaction Field and Screening Effects
• 10:00 to 10:30 - Coffee Break
• 10:30 to 11:15 - Ivano Tavernelli
  
  Trajectory based solution of the nonadiabatic quantum dynamics equations: an on-the-fly approach for molecular dynamics simulations
• 11:15 to 12:00 - Todd Martinez
  
  Optimality, Reversibility and Dimensionality Reduction in Spawning
• 12:00 to 12:45 - Hans Lischka
  
  On-the-fly nonadiabatic dynamics: Photostability of DNA bases and defect transport in pi-stacked model systems
• 12:45 to 14:00 - Lunch Break

Excited state dynamics - Theory meets experiment

• 14:00 to 14:45 - Bern Kohler
  
  Structural effects on excited-state dynamics in DNA oligonucleotides
• 14:45 to 15:30 - Stephen Bradforth
  
  Electronic excitation and coherent reactive dynamics in the liquid phase
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 16:45 - Peter Rossky
  
  Electronic coherence evolution in mixed quantum-classical condensed phase simulations
• 16:45 to 17:30 - James T. Hynes
  
  Short-time frictional solvent effects on conical intersection dynamics for a model photoisomerization
• 17:30 to 18:15 - Eitan Geva
  
  Mixed quantum-classical Liouville dynamics meets multi-dimensional spectroscopy: Spectral signatures of solvation and nonadiabatic transitions far from equilibrium
• 18:30 to 20:00 - Poster Session
• 20:30 to 22:30 - Dinner

Day 3 - May, 11th 2010

Quantum coherence and correlations

• 08:00 to 08:30 - Coffee Break
• 08:30 to 09:15 - Craig Martens
  
  Coherent Quantum Processes in Thermal and Nonequilibrium Environments
• 09:15 to 10:00 - Daniel Lidar
  
  Decoherence control via quantum dynamical decoupling
• 10:00 to 10:30 - Coffee Break
• 10:30 to 11:15 - Jiri Vanicek
  
  Coherent quantum dynamics with the dephasing representation of quantum fidelity
• 11:15 to 12:00 - Ahsan Nazir
  
  Correlation-dependent coherent to incoherent transitions in resonant energy transfer dynamics
• 12:00 to 12:45 - Jiri Vala
  
  Topological phases and superconducting states in Kitaev-like lattice models
• 12:45 to 14:00 - Lunch Break

Excitation energy transfer in light harvesting systems

• 14:00 to 14:45 - Shaul Mukamel
  
  Quantum Transport Effects in Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complexes
• 14:45 to 15:30 - Jianshu Cao
  
  Optimization of energy transfer processes in light-harvesting systems
• 15:30 to 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 to 16:45 - Alexandra Olaya-Castro
  
  Entanglement distribution in light-harvesting systems
• 16:45 to 17:30 - Alan Aspuru-Guzik
  
  Quantum coherence in photosynthetic complexes: Methods, applications, and artifical analogues.
• 17:30 to 18:15 - Seogjoo Jang
  
  New theoretical advances for quantitative description of quantum coherence in resonance energy transfer
• 19:30 to 21:30 - Dinner

Day 4 - May, 12th 2010

Dissipation and non-Markovian dynamics

• 08:00 to 08:30 - Coffee Break
• 08:30 to 09:15 - Yoshikata Tanimura
  
  Numerically rigorous calculations of nonperturbative-nonMarkovian quantum dissipative dynamics: reduced hierarchy equations approach
• 09:15 to 10:00 - Peter Saalfrank
  
  Coherent control of dissipative dynamics: Adsorbate vibrations at surfaces
• 10:00 to 10:30 - Coffee Break
• 10:30 to 11:15 - Keith Hughes
  
  Effective-mode approach to the quantum dynamics of large molecular systems
• 11:15 to 12:00 - Lothar Mühlbacher
  
  Quantum Dissipation and Trapping in Excitonic Energy Transfer
• 12:00 to 14:00 - Lunch Break