Program of the 4th International Workshop on Quantum Energy

October 14 - 17, 2014, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Venue: Wenhua Activity Center, Wangjiang Campus, Sichuan Univerity October 14 Registration & Half-Day Tour October 15

Welcome & Prof. Hong Zhang (Sichuan University) Opening Remarks Prof. Zhenyu Zhang (USTC) 8:30~8:45 Session I Chair: Prof. Xingao Gong Physics of atomically thin quasi two-dimensional crystals 8:45~9:25 Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley, USA) Structural properties of overlayers: A joint theoretical and 9:25~10:05 experimental study Enge Wang (Peking Univeristy, China) 10:05~10:30 Photo Time & Coffee Break Session II Chair: Prof. Zhong Fang Nanofriction: Theory and simulation 10:30~11:10 Erio Tosatti (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), ) Computational studies of two-dimensional materials: From to few-layer graphene and beyond 11:10~11:50 Mei-Yin Chou (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan & Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

11:50~13:30 Lunch

Session III Chair: Prof. Hong Zhang Fundamental physical and chemical processes in photocatalysis 13:30~14:10 Xueming Yang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, China) In pursue of novel two-dimensional electronic structures by 14:10~14:50 first-principles theory Shengbai Zhang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Surface and interface properties of perovskite-based solar materials 14:50~15:30 Leo W. M. Lau (Chengdu Green Energy and Green Manufacturing Technology R&D Center)

15:30~15:50 Coffee Break

Session IV Chair: Prof. Matthias Scheffler Gutzwiller density functional theory for correlated electron calculation 15:50~16:30 Cai-Zhuang Wang & Kai-Ming Ho (Iowa State University & Ames Laboratory, USA) Correlated topological insulators 16:30~17:10 Zhong Fang (Institute of Physics, CAS, China) Large scale ab initio simulation based on systematically improvable 17:10~17:50 atomic bases Lixin He (USTC, China) 18:30 Welcome Banquet October 16 Session V Chair: Prof. Erio Tosatti Big data of materials science from first principles -- critical next steps 8:30~9:10 Matthias Scheffler (Fritz Haber Institute, Germany) Epitaxial growth of graphene-like overlayer on semiconductor surface 9:10~9:50 towards room-temperature topological quantum states Feng Liu (University of Utah, USA) Plasmon-enhanced one-photon upconversion and plexciton Fano 9:50~10:30 resonance of dye molecules coupled to metal nanostructures Ququan Wang (Wuhan University, China) 10:30~10:45 Coffee Break

Session VI Chair: Prof. Steven G. Louie First-principles design of spintronic materials 10:45~11:25 Yuanping Feng (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Quantum dynamics at interface in solar cells and photocatasis 11:25~12:05 Sheng Meng (Institute of Physics, CAS, China)

12:05~13:30 Lunch

Session VII Chair: Prof. Kai-Ming Ho First principles study and design of functional materials for energy 13:30~14:10 applications Su-Huai Wei (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA) Computational design and understanding of novel solar materials 14:10~14:50 Xingao Gong (Fudan University, China)

Computational study of ferroelectric halide perovskites with switchable 14:50~15:30 Rashba bands Minsung Kim & Jisoon Ihm (Seoul National University, South Korea)

15:30~15:50 Coffee Break

Session VIII Chair: Prof. Mei-Yin Chou Plasmon excitations under quantum confinement 15:50~16:30 Hanno Weitering (University of Tennessee, USA) Ultrafast electron dynamics in energy related nanostructures 16:30~17:10 Yi Luo (USTC) Photoelectric effects in 2D interface systems 17:10~17:50 Changgan Zeng (USTC, China) 18:00-21:00 Dinner Reception October 17

Session IX Chair: Prof. Yi Luo Near-infrared light driven photocatalytic water splitting 8:30~9:10 Jinlong Yang (USTC, China) Copper-based thermoelectric materials 9:10~9:50 Xun Shi & Wenqing Zhang (Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS, China) Capacitance measurements to investigate behaviors in organic 9:50~10:30 photovoltaic materials Xiaoyuan Hou (Fudan University) 10:30~10:50 Coffee Break

Session X Chair: Prof. Zhenyu Zhang

10:50~11:45 Poster Session Concluding Prof. Shouzhu Zhang (Director, Physics Division I, Remarks National Science Foundation of China) 11:45~12:00 Prof. Xingao Gong (Fudan University)

12:00~ Lunch & Departure