Registration, sandwiches, coffee

Opening and welcome, Marcus Elstner

Introduction of the BCCMS, Thomas Frauenheim

Ingrid Mertig, University of Halle -Wittenberg (Germany)
Magnetoelectric coupling at multiferroic interfaces

Johannes Richter, University of Magdeburg (Germany)
Correlated systems on highly frustrated lattices: From magnons to electrons

Tim Wehling, University of Hamburg (Germany)
The Kondo effect in nanostructures: Insights from first-principles theory

Coffee Break

Gotthard Seifert, Dresden University of Technology (Germany)
DFTB calculations of nanostructures

Lucio Colombi Ciacchi, University of Bremen (Germany)
Towards an atomistic understanding of stress-corrosion: Growth of hydrogen-induced
platelets in silicon

Thomas Heine, Jacobs University Bremen (Germany)
Simulation of NMR-pattern in solids, nanostructures and liquids

Marcus Elstner, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
A coarse grained QM/MM approach for the description of hole transfer in DNA

Conference Dinner (Stadtwirt - Bremen)

Karlheinz Schwarz, Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
The all-electron approach for solids and surfaces with wien2k

Stephen Elliot, University of Cambridge (UK)
Ab inito molecular dynamic simulations of crystal nucleation in phase change memory materials

Risto Nieminen, Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)
Defects and impurity migration in graphene and graphite

Coffee Break

Michel A. Van Hove, City University of Hong Kong (China)
Complex molecules on flat metal surfaces: Large distortions induced by chemisorptions
can make physiosorption energetically more favourable

Wolf - Gero Schmidt, University of Paderborn (Germany)
The In/Si (111) (4x2) / (8x2) surface: Structure, entropy and metal-insulator transition

Gerd Roepke, University of Rostock (Germany)
Time dependent processes and linear response theory

Guanhua Chen, University of Hong Kong (China)
Linear-scaling methods for excited states

Lunch Break (Café Unique) and Coffee

Vasiliy Ploshikhin, University of Bremen (Germany)
Mesoscopic simulation of composites: Bridging macro- and nano-scales

Aldo Di Carlo, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Italy)
Multi-scale methods in electronic device simulation

Friedhelm Bechstedt, University of Jena (Germany)
Parameter-free calculations of spectra: Fiction or reality?

Michael Schreiber, Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany)
The modified sharpened index h_ms and other variants of the Hirsch index zoo

Poster Session & Buffet (Catering Service)

Matthias Scheffler, Fritz - Haber - Institute Berlin (Germany)
The random phase approximation for the electron correlation energy and beyond

Alessandro Pecchia, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Italy)
Defect scattering in silicon nanowires

Thomas Niehaus, University of Regensburg (Germany)
Range-seperated functionals in the density functional based tight-binding

Coffee Break

Ruiquin Zhang, City University Hong Kong (China)
Surface effects of silicon nanostructures

Benjamin Hourahine, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK)
Challenges and opportunities for tight-binding from ab initio and empirical competitors

Closing remarks

Departure