CCP9 Workshop Programme

Monday 29th November

09.30 - 10.30	Registration and coffee		Merrison Lecture Theatre Foyer
10.30 - 11.30	Plenary: Richard Martin	Building on the successes of Electronic Structure Theory	Merrison Lecture Theatre
11.30 - 11.55	Mike Towler	Recent progress in quantum Monte Carlo	Merrison Lecture Theatre
12.00 - 12.25	Dzidka Szotek	Self-interaction corrected Local Spin Density calculations for spintronics materials	Merrison Lecture Theatre

12.30 - 14.30	Buffet Lunch and Posters		New Reception Building

14.30 - 15.30	Plenary: Rex Godby	The GW approach to spectral, ground-state and transport properties	Merrison Lecture Theatre
15.30 - 15.55	Bob Jones	Density functional treatment of extended interstitial defects in Si	Merrison Lecture Theatre
16.00 - 16.25	Martin Lüders	Ab-initio theory of superconductivity: Density functional formalism, approximate functionals and first applications	Merrison Lecture Theatre

16.30 - 17.00	Coffee		Merrison Lecture Theatre Foyer

17.00 - 18.00	Born Prize Presented to Matthias Scheffler	Statistical Mechanics from First Principles	Merrison Lecture Theatre
18.00	Bus departs from Daresbury Laboratory outside the Merrison Lecture Theatre Foyer to Britannia Hotel, Manchester
20.00	Conference Dinner - Yang Sing Restaurant, 34 Princes Street, Manchester, Tel. 0161 236 2200 http://www.yang-sing.com/ (5 minutes walking distance from hotel)

08.00	Bus departs from Britannia Hotel to Daresbury Laboratory
08.45	Coffee and Pastries		Merrison Lecture Theatre Foyer

09.00 - 10.00	Plenary: Mike Payne	Next Generation Simulation Techniques	Merrison Lecture Theatre
10.00 - 10.25	Chris-Kriton Skylaris	Introducing ONETEP: Linear-Scaling Density Functional Theory with Plane Waves	Merrison Lecture Theatre
10.30 - 10.55	David Pettifor	Recent Developments in analytic bond-order potentials	Merrison Lecture Theatre

11.00 - 11.30	Coffee		Merrison Lecture Theatre Foyer

11.30 - 11.55	Derwyn Rowlands	First-principles description of disordered metallic systems with short-range order	Merrison Lecture Theatre
12.00 - 12.25	Chris Pickard	Interpreting magnetic resonance experiments from first principles	Merrison Lecture Theatre

12.30 - 14.55	Lunch and posters		New Reception Building

15.00 - 16.00	Plenary: Mikhail Katsnelson	Non-quasiparticle states in half-metallic ferromagnets	Merrison Lecture Theatre
16.00 - 17.00	Plenary: Takao Kotani	Quasiparticle self-consistent GW method	Merrison Lecture Theatre

17.00	Close - Coffee available		Merrison Lecture Theatre Foyer