Organizers

Local Organizing Committee

Kieron Burke
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rutgers University
610 Taylor Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087
Phone: (732) 445-1785
Fax: (732) 445-5312
kieron@dft.rutgers.edu
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Karin Rabe
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Rutgers University
136 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
Phone: (732) 445-4186
Fax: (732) 445-4400
karin@physics.rutgers.edu
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David Vanderbilt
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Rutgers University
136 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
Phone: (732) 445-2514
Fax: (732) 445-4400
dhv@physics.rutgers.edu
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Thanks to local organizing helpers

(Remarks of David Vanderbilt at closing of workshop:)
Now I wish to thank all the people whose hard work made this workshop a
success.

First, our group secretary, who took care of processing the
registrations,

  Fran DeLuca

And then all the students and postdocs in the groups of Karin Rabe,
Kieron Burke, David Langreth, and myself, who did a fantastic job with
various aspects of the arrangements.  It was a real pleasure working
with all of them.  In particular, we'd like to thank:

Dorm coordinators

  Javier Junquera
  Silvia Tinte

and assistant

  Adam Wasserman

Our chief of registration

  Karen Johnston

and assistant

  Claudia Bungaro

Poster session coordinators

  Aaron Puzder
  Davide Ceresoli

Web page designer and travel reimbursement coordinator

  Takeyce Whittingham

Our audio-visual specialist

  Xinjie Wang

Program book designer

  Oswaldo Dieguez

Program book producer

  Xifan Wu

Restaurant advisor

  Craig Fennie

Name tag producer

  Fan Zhang

IP address coordinator

  Vazgen Shekoyan

Also, our...

Kohn-Sham advisor

  Dennis T. Functional

Atomic physics advisor

  Corey Lectron

Large-scale systems expert

  Lynn E.R. Scaling

Local-approximation specialists

  Al Dieh and his brother Ellis

1D systems expert

  Nan O'Tube

Artificial periodicity coordinator

  Sue Purcell

Finally, we acknowledge our acknowledgment advisors,

  Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, of National Public Radio

 

Program Committee

Andrew Rappe, University of Pennsylvania
Cyrus Umrigar, Cornell University
David Ceperley, University of Illinois
David Vanderbilt, Rutgers Univesity
Douglas C Allan, Corning Laboratory
Duane Johnson, University of Illinois
James Chelikowsky, University of Minnesota
James Gubernatis, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jerzy Bernholc, North Carolina State University
John Wilkins, Ohio State University
Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Tech University
Richard Martin, University of Illinois
Roberto Car, Princeton University
Steven Lewis, University of Georgia
Steven Louie, University of California at Berkeley