Chairperson: P. Lugli

	10:45	Beyond the local density approximation (Invited) G. Kresse and J. Hafner University of Vienna, Austria
	11:15	Heat Dissipation and Non-equilibrium Phonon Distributions in Molecular Devices A. Pecchia, A. Gagliardi1, T. Frauenheim1, and A. Di Carlo University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy 1Universität Paderborn, Germany
	11:30	Tight-Binding Calculations of Ge-nanowire Bandstructures M. Bescond1, N. Cavassilas, K. Nehari, and M. Lannoo L2MP, CNRS, France 1IMEP, CNRS, France
	11:45	GW Corrections of Energy Bandgaps for Coherent Transport Across Molecular Junctions A. Pecchia, A. Gagliardi1, T. Niehaus1, T. Frauenheim1, and A. Di Carlo University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy 1Universität Paderborn, Germany
	12:00	Multi-scale Approaches in Computational Materials Science P. Weinberger TU Vienna, Austria
	12:15	Convergence of Density Functional Iterative Procedures with a Newton-Raphson Algorithm J. Jerome, L. Ye, P. Sievert, I. Kim, and A. Freeman Northwestern University, USA