Symposium:

Explicit density functional of the kinetic energy in computer simulations at atomistic level.


The topics covered in this symposium include:

  • Approximating the kinetic energy as a functional of the electron density.
  • Computer simulations using methods relying on approximations to the kinetic energy functional.
  • Mathematical properties of the kinetic energy functional(s).
  • Techniques for numerical evaluation of the kinetic energy functional.
  • This symposium is a part of the 2005 International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering to be held in Loutraki, Korinthos, Greece, 21-26 October 2005. For information concerning the conference venue (Hotel Poseidon in Lutraki), other symposia, and the registration fee, consult the conference site.

    If you wish to present a paper or poster in this symposium, please contact the organizer, Tomasz A. Wesolowski (Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland), by email.

    Extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) to be published in a special issue of
    Lecture Series on Computer and Computations Sciences
    must be submitted before the new extended deadline of 10 October 2005.

    Tentative list of talks:


  • J. Alonso (Valladolid, Spain) Simulation of the melting of metallic clusters using orbital-free kinetic energy functionals
  • D. Garcia-Aldea and J.E. Alvarellos (Madrid, Spain) A study of Kinetic Energy Density Functionals: a New Proposal
  • P. Cortona (Paris, France) Density-functional-theory calculations without wave functions: the structural properties of ionic solids
  • M. Dulak and T.A. Wesolowski (Geneva, Switzerland) Adaptive grid technique for computer simulations of condensed matter using orbital-free effective embedding potential.
  • J.M. Garcia-Lastra (Santander, Spain) Study of Mn2+-dopped fluoroperovskites by means of the Kohn-Sham Constrained Electron Density embedding formalism
  • E. Smargiassi (Trieste, Italy) to be announced
  • B. Zhou and Y.A. Wang (Vancouver, Canada) Recovering Band Structure and Orbital Information from Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory



  • Further information about the program of the symposium will appear on this site.


    Date of the symposium: 23 October 2005

    Geneva, 16 September 2005