WIEN2007 WIEN2k Workshop June 11-14, 2007 The Pennsylvania State University 316 Hammond Building State College, Pennsylvania Organized by the Materials Simulation Center A Facility of the Materials Research Institute

• Prof. Karlheinz Schwarz, (TU Wien, Austria). Leader of the development team of the WIEN package.

• Prof. Peter Blaha, (TU Wien, Austria). Author and principal maintainer of the code.

• Prof. Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, (University of Leoben, Austria). Author of the optical properties package.

• Prof. Georg Madsen, (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Electronic transport properties of thermoelectric materials and the electric field gradients of materials of catalytic interest.

• Prof. Laurence D. Marks, (Northwestern University, U.S.A.). Nanoscale and Picoscale Structure and Properties.

• Mr. Kevin Jorissen, (Univ. of Washington, USA and Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium.). Theoretical and computational aspects of Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy(XAS).

• Dr. Andrés Saúl, (CRMCN, Marseille, France). Calculation of surface energies and surface stresses.

For a description of their presentations see the Workshop Program.