Solvation, non-uniform polarizability, and local field effects in solids, liquids, life, and devices

Brainstorming Session

Speaker: See Program
Date & Time: April 11-14, 2016
Location: Room 311 - Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, Point Grey Campus, University of British Columbia
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate

Solvation is at the heart of life and electro-chemistry, non-uniform polarizability is central to photonic devices, local field corrections determine short range interactions even in insulators. These are all related problems central to some of the most important issues in basic science and applications. This meeting will discuss how to tackle these issues in the various fields such as ions in polar liquids in biological systems, battery operations, short range interactions in solids with non-uniformly polarizable ions, ion-ion and ion surface interactions in polar liquids, structure of polar liquids, interactions in low dimensional solids, electromagnetic waves in photonic devices and metamaterials.

View Polarizability Brainstorming Session Timetable

View Slides from the Brainstorming Session Talks:

• “Commonalities regarding solvation & non‐uniform polarizability in solids and liquids,” George Sawatzky, UBC

• “Non‐uniform polarizability and propagation of electromagnetic waves and photonics,” Jeff Young, UBC

• “Solvation of ions and ion‐ion interactions in polar liquids,” Joerg Rottler, UBC

• “Solvation and polarization in electro chemistry, batteries and fuel cell,” Dan Bizzotto, UBC

• “Role of polarizability in the structure and dynamics of liquid water,” Marivi Fernandez Serra, Stony Brook

• “Hydration‐shell boundary conditions enable accurate continuum models for solvent‐shell response,” Jaydeep Bardhan, Northeastern

• “Ab‐initio modeling of opto‐electronic properties of polyatomic molecules in solvents and in proximity to a semiconductor nanoparticle,” Alain Delgado Gran, U of Ottawa

• “Coulombic systems in Mean‐Field theory and beyond,” Henri Orland, Institute of Theoretical Physics

• “Molecular theory of solvation for chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, and nanomaterials,” Andriy Kovalenko, National Research Council (Canada)

• “Onsager method for local fields in Relaxor Ferro‐electrics: A baby problem of Solid Electrolytes,” Chandra Varma, UCRS

• “Interfaces and surfaces of solids with polar terminations,” Ilya Elfimov/George Sawatzky, UBC

• “Electron‐electron interactions, screening and polarizability in quantum dots,” Pawel Hawrylakl, U of Ottawa

• “Accounting for polarisation effects in biomolecular simulation,” Wilfred F. van Gunsteren, ETH Zurich

• “Ions at interfaces: Combining molecular dynamics simulations and continuum theory,” Douwe Bonthuis, Oxford

• “Screening of excitations and small polarons in strongly correlated solids and solid surfaces,” Hao Tjeng, MPI Dresden

• “Polarization induced renormalization of local interactions in strongly correlated electron systems,” Jeroen van den Brink, IFW Dresden

• “Quasi particle dynamics and interactions in non‐uniformly polarizable solids,” Mona Berciu, UBC