Preliminary Program

Sunday, June 5 
18:00 - 20:00 Registration
19:00 - Welcome buffet (providing food and beverages)
Monday, June 6 
8:45 Welcome
9:00 Spano
 Modeling disorder in conjugated oligomers and polymer films
9:45 Nielaba
 Numerical investigations of complex nano-systems
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Agranovich
 Hybrid electronic excitations in organic based nanostructures
11:45 Briggs
 Optical properties of molecular aggregates
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Reineker
 Dendrimers: Optical absorption and energy transfer
14:45 Ankerhold
 Charge transfer dynamics in molecular aggregates: What can we learn from real-time quantum Monte Carlo simulations?
15:30 Tornow
 Electron transfer in Donor-acceptor systems: Many-particle effects and influence of electronic correlations
15:50 Coffee
16:30 Colloquium: Nitzan
 Inelastic effects in electron tunneling
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Poster
Tuesday, June 7 
9:00 van Grondelle
 Excitation dynamics in the LHCII complex of higher plants: Modeling based on the 2.72A crystal structure
9:45 Sola
 Shaping wave packets and molecules with light
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Materny
 Frequency-resolved spectroscopy using femtosecond laser pulses - Does this make sense?
11:45 de Vivie-Riedle
 Optimal control of molecular devices
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Herek
 Coherent control of energy transfer in biomolecules
14:45 May
 Ultrafast exciton dynamics in molecular systems
15:30 Coffee
16:10 Kjellberg
 Multi-dimensional fs spectroscopy of an excitonic dimer system, described by Redfield relaxation theory
16:30 Engel
 Quantum control fields from molecular dynamical response
17:15 Shao
 Stochastic description of quantum dissipative dynamics: Analytical theory and numerical simulations
18:30 Dinner
Wednesday, June 8 
9:00 Grubmüller
 Elaborate pores and complex machines: nature's nanotechnology benchmarks
9:45 Tokmakoff
 Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of protein conformation and unfolding
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Stock
 Photoinduced conformational dynamics in biomolecules
11:45 Marx
 Nonadiabatic ab initio molecular dynamics: Coupled proton-electron transfer in solution
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Excursion
Thursday, June 9 
9:00 Hirst
 Applying quantum chemistry to proteins
9:45 Elstner
 Approaching photochemistry and proton tranport in biologigcal system with QM/MM methods
10:30 Coffee
11:00 M. Dittrich
 Quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical simulations of biomolecular systems
11:45 Kühn
 Multidimensional vibrational quantum dynamics of CO-Heme compounds
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Martinez
 Ab initio molecular dynamics for excited electronic states: From butadiene to photoactive yellow protein
14:45 Prezhdo
 Time-dependent density functional studies of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics in novel nanomaterials
15:30 Coffee
16:10 Roccatano
 Insights into the structural and dynamic properties of Cytochrome P450 BM3 Heme domain in water and in DMSO/water mixture by MD simulations
16:30 Evans
 Exact solutions of condensed phase dynamics: Comparison to standard approximations and applications to electron transfer
17:15 Käb
 Stochastic Schrödinger equation approach to quantum/semiclassical dynamics
17:35 Taraphder
 Modelling the long range proton transfer paths in proteins
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Poster
Friday, June 10 
9:00 Rost
 Quasiclassical simulation of rare gas clusters interacting with strong laser pulses
9:45 Abe
 Theoretical design and control of molecular electronic functions
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Zacharias
 Computer simulation of biomolecular association including local and global conformational flexibility
11:45 Everaers
 Structure and elasticity of DNA and chromatin
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Helms
 Biomolecular simulation of protein-protein interaction in solution and near charged membranes
14:45 Taliani
 Organic semiconductors as materials of choice for spintronics
15:30 Coffee
16:10 Gavrilenko
 Ab initio molecular dynamics and optical properties of organic macromolecular aggregates and molecular crystals
16:30 Neufeld
 Towards consistency and performance in quantum-classical treatment of reaction dynamics in condensed phase
19:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, June 11 
9:00 Kohler
 Molecular wires subject to laser-excitations
9:45 Yan
 Dynamics of Quantum Open Systems: Theories and Applications
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Weiss
 Quantum decoherence due to coherent background charges
11:45 Petelenz
 Polarons in tungsta "smart windows" --- a dynamicists's disappointment
12:30 Lunch

For further information please e-mail to: simula05@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de