Charge carrier dynamics in nanostructures: optoelectronic and photo-stimulated processes2 0 1 7

Tuesday, October 10th 2017 (House of Science Bremen/Downtown)

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Opening and welcome, Thomas Frauenheim

Energy and charge transfer IChair: Christoph Lienau

09:00 - 09:40 Gregory D. Scholes, Princeton University, New Jersey (US)Can coherence enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems?

09:40 - 10:20 Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico (US)

Coherent exciton-vibrational dynamics and energy transfer in conjugated organics

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Oleg V. Prezhdo, University of Southern California, Los Angeles(US)Excited state dynamics in nanoscale materi-als for solar energy harvesting

Energy and charge transfer II

11:30 - 12:10 Thomas A. Niehaus, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (France)Light absorption of contacted molecules

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Jochen Blumberger, University College London (UK)Fragment orbital-based surface hopping for simulation of charge carrier transport in materials and biomolecules

Group photoLunch Break (Restaurant Stadtwirt) and Coffee

Photo-induced processesChair: Chiyung Yam

Ignacio Franco, University of Rochester, New York (US)Stark control of electrons

15:10 - 15:50 Elisa Molinari, University of Modena and Reg-gio Emilia & CNR Modena(Italy)

Bridging atomistic and coarse-grained simula-tions for unraveling long-time scale membra-ne protein dynamics

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Sangam Chatterjee, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Germany)

Crystalline heterostructures with defined molecular orientations: model systems for exciton studiesYosuke Kanai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US) First-principles dynamics simulation of hot electrons at hybrid interfaces and in quantum dots

19:00 - 21:30 Welcome Reception (Bremen Town Hall)

Wednesday, October 11th 2017 (House of Science Bremen/Downtown)

Session: Optoelectronic processes and devicesChair: Traian Dumitrica

08:30 - 09:10 Steven Cundiff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (US)

Optical multidimensional coherent spectro-scopy of semiconductor nanostructures

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Guanhua Chen, The University of Hong Kong (China)

Quantum mechanical simulation of optoelectronic processes

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Heiko Appel, Max Planck Institute, Hamburg (Germany)

Ab-initio description of the quantum nature of light for photo-stimulated processes

Enrico Perfetto, CNR Rome, (Italy)First-principles nonequilibrium Green´s function approach to the correlated electron dynamics of atoms and molecules

Tyler L. Cocker, University of Regensburg (Germany)Ultrafast terahertz microscopy on the atomic scale

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Time-resolved spectroscopyChair: Oliver Kühn

Christoph Lienau, University of Oldenburg (Germany)

Ultrafast multidimensional sprectroscopy of charge-transfer processes in light-harvesting systems

Tenio Popmintschev, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California (US) Design of coherent X-rays with arbitrary spectral, temporal shape, and spin and orbital angular momentum

Alejandro Molina-Sánchez, University of Valencia (Spain) Modeling ultra-short spectroscopy of 2D materials with ab-inito many-body perturba-tion theory

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Coffee Break Alfred Leitenstorfer, University of Konstanz (Germany)

Quantum physics of electrons and photons in the few-particle and sub-cycle limits

Sascha Schäfer, University of Göttingen (Germany)

Ultrafast nanoscale dynamics probed by time-resolved electron microscopy

Bus Pickup to Conference Dinner(Pickup Venue: H+ Hotel Bremen, Wachtstraße 27-29)

19:00 - 22:30 Conference Dinner (Juergenshof)

Thursday, October 12th 2017 (House of Science Bremen/Downtown)

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Andrea Trabattoni, CFEL Hamburg (Germany)Real-time tracing of attosecond inelastic scattering in dielectric nanoparticles

Excitonic processesChair: Ulrich Kleinekathöfer

09:10 - 09:50 Akshay Rao, University of Cambridge (UK)

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From strongly bound excitons to free charges without energy loss: the role of vibronic dynamics and entropy

Chiyung Yam, Beijing Computational Science Research Center (China)

Nanoscale optoelectronics: the interatcion of nanoscale junctions with light

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Ravishankar Sundararaman, Rensselaer Poly-technic Institute, Troy, New York (US)

Designing nano-materials for plasmonic hot carrier applications using ab initio multiphysics

Irene Burghardt, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main (Germany)

Quantum dynamics of ultrafast exciton and charge migration in pi-conjugated materials: coherence, confinement, and localization

Steven G. Louie, University of California at Berkeley (US)

Interaction and topological effects in the photophysics of two-dimensional materials

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Charge and spin dynamicsChair: Oleg V. Prezhdo

Eberhard K.U. Gross, Max Planck Institute, Halle/Saale (Germany)

Potential energy surfaces and Berry phases beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approxima-tion: a novel approach to non-adiabatic dynamics

Johannes Lischner, Imperial College London (UK)

Hot electron processes in plasmonic nanos-tructures

15:50 - 16:30 Gulio Cerullo, Politechnic University of Milan(Italy)

Ultrafast carrier and spin dynamics in 2-dimensional semiconductors

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18:00 - 21:00 Poster Session and Catering Buffet

Friday, October 13th 2017 (House of Science Bremen/Downtown)

Session: Multi-dimensional spectroscopyChair: Guanhua Chen

08:30 - 09:10 Shaul Mukhamel, University of California, Irvine (Ireland)

Study of nonadiabatic dynamics and conical intersections by nonlinear broadband X-ray spectroscopy

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Carlo Andrea Rozzi, CNR, Modena,(Italy) On the role of ultrafast lattice dynamics in photo-induced charge separation

Tobias Brixner, University of Würzburg (Germany)Multidimensional spectroscopy with spatial and temporal resolution

Coffee Break Cristián G. Sánchez, National University of Córdoba (Argentina)Dynamics of excited electrons in nano- structures from real-time time-depen- dent DFTB Ivano Tavernelli, IBM Research-Zurich (Switzerland) Mixed quantum-classical methods for the simulation of photophysical and photochemi-cal processes

12:20 - 13:00 Andrew P. Horsefield, Imperial College London (Uk)

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Simulation of response of organic mole- cules to ultrafast laser pulses Closing remarks: Thomas Frauenheim

Conference Organisers

Thomas Frauenheim University of Bremen BCCMS www.bccms.uni-bremen.de Christoph Lienau University of Oldenburg Institute of Physics https://www.uni-oldenburg.de/ en/uno/

Oleg V. Prezhdo University of Southern California Deparment of Chemistry http://chem.usc.edu/faculty/ Prezhdo.html Angel Rubio Max Planck Institute Hamburg https://www.mpsd.mpg.de/emplo yees/39745/113438

Chiyung Yam Beijing Computational Science Research Center http://www.csrc.ac.cn/~yamcy/ http:/www.bccms.uni-bremen.de/evens/2017/cecam-cc-