Program

  Wednesday 2 Thursday 3 Friday 4
9:00-9:30 REGISTRATION Poster-1 Poster-2
9:30-10:00 OPENING Álvaro Mombrú Susana Ramos
10:00-10:30 C O F F E   B R E A K
10:30-11:20 Pablo Ordejon Andrei Postnikov Sergio Koval
11:20-12:10 Eduardo A. Menendez Lara Kühl Teles Verónica Vildosola
12:10-14:00 A L M U E R Z O - L U N C H
14:00-14:50 Verónica Ganduglia Pirovano Diego Venegas Yazigi Gonzalo Gutierrez
14:50-15:40 Ricardo Faccio James Chelikowsky Walter Orellana
15:40-16:10 C O F F E   B R E A K
16:10-17:00 Niels Christensen Lucy V. Assali Stefaan Cottenier
17:00-17-20 Mariana Weissmann  Helena Petrilli CLOSING REMARKS
17:20-18:00  

 

Tentative titles of the talks

Wednesday
- Pablo Ordejon: Transport in nanostructures: first principles and multi-scale approaches.
- Eduardo Menendez: Calculation of the elastic stiffness tensor of hydroxyapatite and fluorapatite.
- Verónica Ganduglia Pirovano: Oxygen defect formation in ceria and its "non-innocent" role as support for oxidation catalysts.
- Ricardo Faccio: Mechanical and electronic properties of edge doped graphene nanoribbons
- Niels Christensen: Theoretical band-gap design of semiconducting nitride alloys containing indium.
- Mariana Weissmann Electronic and magnetic properties of the different phases of Ti4O7 from density functional theory.

Thursday
- Álvaro Mombrú: Infrared absorbing molecular assemblies.
- Andrei Postnikov: Understanding vibration modes in mixed and complex semiconductors.
- Lara Kühl Teles: New developments and results by using LDA-1/2 method for gap correction: application to complex systems and nano-systems.
- Diego Venegas Yazigi: DFT calculations on polioxometalates. Structural, magnetic and electronic descriptions
- James. R. Chelikowsky: Quantum algorithms for bridging the nano to macro-scale
- Lucy V. C. Assali: Physical properties of defects and impurities in semiconductors.
- Helena Petrilli: Intriguing magnetic behavior of Mn nanowires on Fe(001) surface.

Friday
- Susana Ramos: Cohesive and electronic properties of Ni-(In, Sn) intermetallics: ab-initio database and systematics.
- Sergio Koval: First-principles studies of hydrogen-bonded ferroelectrics and antiferroelectrics
- Verónica Vildosola: Ab-initio approach to strongly correlated materials: an LDA+DMFT study of Fe-based superconductors and Pyrochlore Molybdates.
- Gonzalo Gutierrez: Thermal stability and dynamical properties of Ti3 SiC2 (0001) surfaces at high temperatures: First-principles calculations.
- Walter Orellana: Carbon nanotubes - metal porphyrins supramolecular complexes for the oxygen reduction: Density functional calculations.
- Stefaan Cottenier: Computational materials design for electricity generation in the 22nd century.