28-Jun-2007

27-Jun-2007

26-Jun-2007

25-Jun-2007

9:40 - Burghardt

10:40 - Coffee break

11:10 - Brumer

11:50 - Kay

12:30 - Muehlbacher

19:30 - Alon

20:10 - Ankerhold

20:50 - Kosloff

9:40 - Kuleff

10:20 - Coffee break

10:40 - Geva

11:20 - Coker

Trip to Golan Heights

Conference Dinner

9:40 - Grossmann

10:20 - Martin-Fierro

10:40 - Coffee break

11:10 - Miret-Artes

11:50 - Tannor

12:30 - Poirier

20:00 - Bittner

20:40 - Thoss

21:20 - Martinazzo

9:10 - Grabert

9:50 - Shao

10:30 - Coffee break

11:00 - Wang

11:40 - Shalashilin

12:20 - Martens

Tour of Safed

20:00 - Cao

20:40 - Mandelshtam

21:20 - Thanopoulos

9:00-9:10 Introduction, technicalities, etc. - Eli Pollak

Reduced equations of motion

9:50-10:30 Jiushu Shao - Dissipative Dynamics of Spin-Boson Model at Zero Temperature

10:30-11:00 coffee break

Quantum methods I

11:00-11:40 Haobin Wang - Multilayer Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree Theory

11:40-12:20 Dmitrii Shalashilin - Simulations in quantum mechanics with Coupled Coherent States

12:20-13:00 Craig Martens - Simulation of Coherent Quantum Dynamics in Many-Body Systems

Tour of Safed

Quantum-Classical methods I

20:00-20:40 Jianshu Cao - Classical-quantum correspondence in dynamic response of anharmonic systems

20:40-21:20 Vladimir Mandelshtam - Thermodynamic properties of clusters: Quantum versus Classical Mechanics.

21:20-21:40 Ioannis Thanopoulos - Reduced equations of motion for quantum dynamics at zero temperature.

Semiclassical methods I

9:00-9:40 Marcus de Aguiar - Semiclassical Propagation of Wavepackets with Real and Complex Trajectories

9:40-10:20 Frank Grossmann - A semiclassical hybrid approach for many particle quantum dynamics

10:20-10:40 Eva Martin-Fierro - Forward-backward semiclassical initial value representation series solution of the spin-boson problem: undriven and driven cases

10:40-11:10 coffee break

Bohmian methods

11:10-11:50 S. Miret-Artes - Bohmian mechanics in particle diffraction

11:50-12:30 David Tannor - Bohmian Mechanics with Complex Action: A New Trajectory Based Formulation of Quantum Mechanics

12:30-12:50 Bill Poirier - Multipolar Quantum Tragectory Methods: Wavepacket, Multisurface, and Multidimensional Dynamics

Applications

20:00-20:40 Eric Bittner - Theory of ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in bulk heterojunction devices

20:40-21:20 Michael Thoss - Quantum dynamics of ultrafast photoinduced electron transfer processes at dye-semiconductor interfaces 

21:20-21:40 Rocco Martinazzo - The Local Coherent-State approach to system-bath quantum dynamics

Electron dynamics

9:00-9:40 Mathias Nest - Correlated Quantum Dynamics of Electrons with Multi-Configurational Wave Functions

9:40-10:20 Alexander I. Kuleff - Multielectron wave-packet propagation for tracing ultrafast electronic processes in real time and space

10:20-10:40 coffee break

Condensed phase dynamics

10:40-11:20 Eitan Geva - Vibrational dynamics in the condensed phase

11:20-12:00 Dave Coker - Modeling electronic and vibrational pure dephasing and dissipation dynamics in condensed phase systems

Trip to Golan Heights

Festive Dinner

Quantum-Classical methods II

9:00-9:40 Raymond Kapral - Decoherence and Quantum-Classical Master Equation Dynamics

9:40-10:20 Irene Burghardt - Towards a mixed quantum-classical molecular dynamics: a hybrid hydrodynamic-Liouvillian approach

10:20-10:40 Jian Liu - Real time correlation function in a single phase space integral beyond the linearized semiclassical initial value representation and the forward-backward semiclassical dynamics

10:40-11:10 coffee break

Semiclassical methods II

11:10-11:50 Paul Brumer - Classical and Quantum Computations of Quantum Decoherence

11:50-12:30 Kenneth Kay - Some recent developments in semiclassical initial value treatments

12:30-12:50 Lothar Muehlbacher - Real-time Monte-Carlo simulations for non-equilibrium manybody systems

Quantum Methods III

19:30-20:10 Ofir Alon - Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates beyond Gross-Pitaevskii

20:10-20:50 Joachim Ankerhold - What can we learn from Quantum Monte Carlo simulations in real-time?  

20:50-21:30 Ronnie Kosloff - Dissipative quantum dynamics with the Surrogate Hamiltonian approach. A consistent method for simulating ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy.