HoW exciting! 2026
Keynote Speakers
Here is a list of confirmed speakers for the keynote lectures. This list would expand to more names as soon as we receive confirmation from other speakers!
- Stephan Kümmel, University of Bayreuth, Germany
- Fausto Sirotti, École Polytechnique Palaiseau, France
- Giovanni Onida, University of Milan, Italy
- Marios Zacharias, The Cyprus Institute CaStoRC, Cyprus
- Anna Regoutz, University of Oxford, UK
- Lucia Reining, École Polytechnique Palaiseau, France
- Michael Rohlfing, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
- Andreas Grüneis, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
- Wiebke Bennecke, University of Göttingen, Germany
- Janine George, BAM and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
- Milica Todorović, University of Turku, Finland
Workshop Program
Wednesday, July 22: Introduction |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Registration (Foyer of the Gerthsen-Hörsaal, Physics Department, Newtonstr. 15) |
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| 14:00 - 14:10 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Opening | |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Claudia Draxl | (L)APW+lo method for DFT calculations |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Pasquale Pavone & Kshitij Sinha |
exciting in a nutshell |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:15 - 18:30 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
Thursday, July 23: Density functional theory
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| 9:00 - 10:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Michael Rohlfing | Basics of DFT |
| 10:15 - 11:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Stephan Kümmel | XC in DFT: From standard to advanced functionals |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Andris Gulans | CT1: Fast and robust hybrid-functional calculations in LAPW enabled by adaptively compressed exchange |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Contributed talk 2 | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Pasquale Pavone & Kshitij Sinha | Structural relaxation |
| 14:25 - 14:50 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Kshitij Sinha | Advanced exchange-correlation funcationals |
| 14:50 - 15:00 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Jan Stutz | FSvisual: A Fermi-surface visualization tool |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:15 - 18:30 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
Friday, July 24: Electron-phonon coupling |
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| 9:00 - 10:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Marios Zacharias | Phonons and electron-phonon interaction |
| 10:15 - 11:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Anna Regoutz | Experimental investigation of extended inorganic solids |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Contributed talk 3 | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Contributed talk 4 | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Santiago Rigamonti | Cluster expansion with CELL |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Sebastian Tillack | Density functional perturbation theory and electron-phonon coupling |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:15 - 18:30 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
Saturday, July 25: Spectroscopy (experiment + theory) |
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| 9:00 - 10:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Fausto Sirotti | Photoelectron spectroscopy |
| 10:15 - 11:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Lucia Reining | The GW approximation in MBPT |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Contributed talk 5 | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Contributed talk 6 | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Hannah Kleine | Species files and basis functions in exciting |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Marti Raya Moreno | GW methods in exciting |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:15 - 18:30 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
Monday, July 27: Theoretical spectroscopy methods - 1 |
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| 9:00 - 10:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Giovanni Onida | The Bethe-Salpeter equation in MBPT |
| 10:15 - 11:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Andreas Grüneis | Coupled-cluster methods |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Contributed talk 7 | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Contributed talk 8 | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Benedikt Maurer & Elias Richter | BSE, fast-BSE, Core-BSE and RIXS |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Nasrin Farahani | Polarons and self-trapped excitons |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:15 - 18:30 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
Tuesday, July 28: Theoretical spectroscopy methods - 2 |
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| 9:00 - 10:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Lucia Reining | Time-dependent density-functional theory |
| 10:15 - 11:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Wiebke Bennecke | Time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Contributed talk 9 | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Contributed talk 10 | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Ronaldo Rodrigues Pela | RT-TDDFT and molecular dynamics |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Lu Qiao | Pump probe spectroscopy |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:15 - 18:30 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
Wednesday, July 29: Workflows |
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| 9:00 - 10:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Janine George | Workflows for materials science |
| 10:15 - 11:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Milica Todorović | Machine learning for materials science |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Contributed talk 11 | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Contributed talk 12 | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Fabian Peschel | excitingworkflows |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Martin Kuban | MADAS |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:15 - 18:30 | PC Pool | Hands-on tutorials | |
Thursday, July 30: Machine learning & HPC
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| 9:00 - 10:15 | Gerthsen-Hörsaal | Marti Raya Moreno | Efficiently running exciting: talk + tutorial |
| 10:15 - 11:30 | PC Pool | User projects | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 12:00 - 12:30 | PC Pool | User projects | |