Preliminary program

Five sections. Topics:

- Surfaces, Interfaces and 2D Materials (M.C. Righi - sponsored by ERC SLIDE)
- Magnetism, Ferroelectricity, Multiferroicity and Topology (S. Picozzi)
- Electronic excitations and ultrafast spectroscopy (M. Calandra - Section sponsored by ERC DELIGHT )
- Statistical Mechanics and emergent phenomena (R. Burioni and P. Umari)
- Quantum Science and Technologies (P. Hauke - Section sponsored by EU Horizon RIA project NeQST)
- A special talk will be given by Alessia D'Orazio (ICSC)

Keynote talks: 40+10 mins
Invited talks: 25+5 mins
Contributed Talks: 12+3 mins

Tuesday 27th of August 2024

Welcome dinner (20h00 sharp, Hotel Gruner Baum)

Wednesday 28th of August 2024

8.00-onwards Registration
8:45 to 9:00 Introductory remarks

Electronic excitations and ultrafast spectroscopy (9:00-12:50)

9:00-9:50 Keynote: Maurizia Palummo, Excited state properties of novel 2D/layered materials by ab initio DFT and MBPT methods
9:50-10:20 Invited, Francesco Macheda, First principles calculations of dynamical quadrupoles and higher order terms from the density response in large semiconducting and metallic systems
10:20-10:50 Invited, Pierluigi Cudazzo, Dynamical effects in the spectra of neutral excitations
Coffee Break
11:20-11:50 Invited, Virginia Carnevali, Multi-scale simulations of photovoltaic devices based on organic halide perovskites
11:50-12:05 Contributed, Giovanni Caldarelli, How to screen electronic vertices of time-dependent response functions in hybrid functionals and Bethe-Salpeter equation approaches.
12:05-12:20 Contributed, Daniel Lopez Diaz, Fine-tuning electronic excitations in photoswitch quantum dot nanohybrid systems.
12:20-12:50 Invited: Gianni Profeta, Doping a 2D Mott insulator:path to superconductivity

Lunchtime (12:50-14:30)

Magnetism, Ferroelectricity, Multiferroicity and Topology (14:30-18:20)

14:30-15:20 Keynote: Nicola Spaldin, Hunting for hidden order
15:20-15:35 Contributed, Matteo Cococcioni, Magnetic properties of octanuclear magnets from first-principles.
15:35-16:05 Invited, Antimo Marrazzo, Taming spin-orbit coupling from first principles: electronic screening, topology, disorder and temperature
Coffee Break
16:35-17:05 Invited, Alessandro Chiesa, Modeling chirality-induced spin selectivity in electron transfer for quantum applications
17:05-17:20 Contributed, Federico Orlando, AMaRaNTA:an AiiDA-based workflow to automate calculations of exchange parameters in 2D magnets.
17:20-17:50 Invited, Jagoda Sławinska, Spin-orbitronics in chiral crystals
17:50-18:20 Invited, Andrea Droghetti, First-principles electronic structure and quantum transport methods applied to spintronics

Poster session 1 (18:20-19:30)

Dinner (20h00 sharp, Ristorante Il Grissino)

Thursday 29th of August 2024

Surfaces, Interfaces and 2D Materials (9:00-12:50)

9:00-9:50 Keynote: Carlo Antonio Pignedoli, Simulation challenges in the fabrication and characterization of quasi 1d carbon based nanostructures
9:50-10:20 Invited, Margherita Marsili, Developing tools in computational tribology for the high-throughput modeling of solid-solid interfaces
10:20-10:50 Invited, Davide Tisi, Transport properties of solid-state electrolytes at hybrid dft-level with machine learning
Coffee Break
11:20-11:50 Invited, Silvia Bonfanti, Machine learning discovery in high entropy materials: derivatives of cantor alloys and complex glasses
11:50-12:05 Contributed, Andrea Corradini, A Machine learning approach to light-induced order-disorder phase transitions.
12:05-12:20 Contributed, Ivan Rivalta, Modeling of gold nanobipyramids:from anisotropic growth to chiral properties.
12:20-12:50 Invited, Massimo delle Piane, Exploring atomic dynamics in metals with molecular dynamics and machine learning

Lunchtime (12:50-14:10)

Quantum Science and Technologies (14:10-18:15)

14:10-15:00 Keynote: Simone Montangero, Tensor network algorithms for high-dimensional quantum many-body systems
15:00-15:15 Contributed, Chiara Capecci, Pulse-variational quantum eigensolver.
15:15-15:45 Invited, Elisa Ercolessi, Hybrid variational algorithms on a neutral atom platform
15:45-16:15 Invited, Marco Govoni, Simulating Spin Defects in Solids for Quantum Technologies
Coffee Break
16:45-17:15 Invited, Leonardo Fallani, Strongly interacting lattice fermions: flavour-dependent mott localization and universal hall response
17:15-17:45 Invited, Matteo Michele Wauters, Analog quantum simulations of manybody systems with tunable josephson junction arrays
17:45-18:15 Invited, Luca Barbiero, Exploring strongly interacting fermionic quantum matter with magnetic atoms

Poster session 2 (18:20-19:30)

Dinner (20h00 sharp, Hotel Gruner Baum)

Friday 30th of August 2024

Statistical Mechanics and emergent phenomena (9:00-12:50)

9:00-9:50 Keynote: Amos Maritan, Optimality and scaling in plants and forests
9:50-10:20 Invited, Ivan di Terlizzi, Variance sum rule(s) for entropy production
10:20-10:50 Invited, Giuseppe Negro, Controlling flow patterns and topology in active emulsions.
Coffee Break
11:20-11:35 Contributed: Paolo Restuccia, Simulating reactions at sliding interfaces by ab initio machine learning molecular dynamics.
11:35-12:05 Invited, Vittoria Sposini, Being heterogenous is advantageous: extreme brownian non-gaussian searches
12:05-12:35 Invited, Maria Chiara Angelini, a new renormalization group approach to disordered systems.

Concluding Remarks (12:35-12:50)

Saturday 31st of August 2024