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SCHEDULE
Thursday, August 20, 2026 (Pacific Time)
8:50 – 9:00 AM
Steven G. Louie
UC Berkeley / LBNL
Welcome Remarks
Session I: Excited-State Dynamics and Spectroscopy (Chair: Zhenglu Li)
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Giulia Galli
Univ. of Chicago
Optically Addressable Quantum Systems
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Vojtech Vlcek
UCSB
Theoretical Spectroscopy for Driven Systems
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Pierre Darancet
ANL
Understanding the Optomechanical Response of Broken-Symmetry Materials from First Principles
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Break / Group Photo
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Emmanouil Kioupakis
Univ. of Michigan
Phonon Assisted Optical Processes from First Principles
11:30 – 12 noon
Niri Govind
PNNL
Theoretical Explorations in X-ray Spectroscopies and Ultrafast Dynamics
Lunch Break
Session II: Correlated Phases and Interactions (Chair: David Strubbe)
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Young-Woo Son
KIAS
Ab Initio Extended Hubbard Interactions and Their Applications
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Yuan Cao
UC Berkeley
Towards Reconfigurable and Deterministic Twistronic 2D materials
2:30 – 3:45 PM
Poster Session
3:45 – 4:15 PM
Thomas Maier
ORNL
Ab Initio-Informed Many-Body Description of Interlayer Pairing in Bilayer Nickelates
4:15 – 4:45 PM
Zhi-Hao Cui
UC Irvine
Pairing beyond the Fermi Surface: Self-Consistent GW Theory of Dilute SrTiO3
Friday, August 21, 2026 (Pacific Time)
Session III: Advances and AI in Excited-State Methodology (Chair: Mauro Del Ben)
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Noa Marom
CMU
Predicting the Excited-State Properties of Crystalline Organic Semiconductors with GW+BSE and Machine Learning
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Zhenglu Li
USC
Ab Initio Time-Dependent GW Approach for Nonequilibrium Exciton-Phonon Coupled Dynamics across Momentum Space
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Xian Xu
Yale
Learning the Full GW Self-Energy Operator of Two-Dimensional Semiconductors with a Physics-Informed Transformer
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Nick Pant
UT Austin
Advances in GW: From Accuracy to Scale
11:30 – 12 noon
Rafael R. Del Grande
UC Merced
(Practical) Excited-State Forces Calculations
Lunch Break
Session IV: Excitons and Correlated States in Moiré and 2D Quantum Materials (Chair: Felipe da Jornada)
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Li Yang
WUSTL
Many-Body Effects in Emerging Quantum Materials: From Spin-Valley Excitons to Topological Moiré Bands
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Yang-Hao Chan
Academia Sinica
Valley Depolarization due to Exciton-Phonon Interactions in Monolayer MoS2
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Break
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Fang Liu
Stanford
Light-Induced Coherent Moiré Phonon in Large-Area Twisted TMDC Superlattices
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Moustaj Anouar
Aalto Univ.
Tensor-Network Methodology for Real-Space Super-Moiré Excitons
4:00 – 4:20 PM
Poster Prize Announcement / Concluding Remarks
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