Workshop on
"Excitations in Alkali Clusters"

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan (USA)

July 29-31, 1991

Organizers: David Tomanek and George F. Bertsch, MSU

P r o g r a m

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Monday, July 29

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Morning


• 9:00-9:30 Walt A. de Heer (EPFL Lausanne)
• 9:30-10:00 Catherine Brechignac (Orsay)
  "Giant resonances in alkali cluster ions"
• 10:00-10:30 J\orn Borggreen (Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen)
  "Plasmon absorption experiments in small Na_n clusters"
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00-11:30 Piercarlo Fantucci (Centro CNR, Milano)
  "Comparison between Hartree-Fock RPA and jellium RPA calculations in Na_n clusters"
• 11:30-12:00 Susumu Saito (NEC Japan)
  "Density-functional theory and many-body theory for electronic excitations in metal clusters"
  
  Afternoon Discussion/Poster Session
  
  

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  Tuesday, July 30

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  Morning
  
  
• 9:00-9:30 Michel Broyer (Universite Lyon)
  "Optical absorption spectra of small lithium clusters: Molecular structures and collective resonances"
• 9:30-10:00 Manfred M. Kappes (Northwestern University)
  "Optical response in alkali clusters"
• 10:00-10:30 Vitaly Kresin (UC Berkeley)
  "Electronic excitations and scattering in alkali clusters"
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00-11:30 Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky (Freie Universitat Berlin)
  "Molecular interpretation of absorption spectra of alkali metal clusters and comparison with other approaches"
• 11:30-12:00 David Tomanek (Mich. State University)
  "Damping mechanisms of the Mie plasmon in alkali clusters"
  
  Afternoon Discussion/Poster Session
  
  

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  Wednesday, July 31

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  Morning
  
  
• 9:00-9:30 Hellmut Haberland (Universitat Freiburg)
  "Excitons and plasmons at the metal-nonmetal transition in Hg_n clusters"
• 9:30-10:00 Robert L. Whetten (UC Los Angeles)
  "Persistent electron pairing in Na_n and In_n clusters of up to 300 electrons"
• 10:00-10:30 Ludger Woeste (Freie Universitat Berlin) Time-resolved experiments on Na₃ clusters
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00-11:30 Constantine Yannouleas (Virginia Commonwealth U.)
  "From the cationic to the anionic alkali clusters: How the total charge controls the fragmentation of the plasmon"
• 11:30-12:00 Riccardo A. Broglia (Universita di Milano)
  "Damping of plasmons"
  
  Afternoon Discussion/Poster Session
  
  

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