This workshop will examine off-the-beaten path approaches to electronic structure theory, particularly low-scaling and unconventional methods. Format: Invited lectures (see confirmed speakers below) and poster sessions.

Background:
The International Conference of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC) will be held in Boulder, CO, June 25-30, 2012. This Telluride workshop is a satellite meeting of the ICQC conference.

Themes for the LUEST 2012 workshop:
I. Unconventional electronic structure methods
� Exact/extremely accurate solutions to the Schrodinger equation
� Low scaling techniques and accurate calculations on very large systems
� Density Matrix Renormalization Group and Tensor Networks
� Reduced Density Matrix methods
� Quantum Monte Carlo and Stochastic Approaches
� Unconventional Density Functionals
� Density Matrix Functional Theory
� Non-Gaussian basis sets (for instance numerical, finite element)

II. Bridging the gap between the physics and chemistry community
� Dynamical Mean Field Theory
� Random Phase Approximation for ground state correlations
� The GW method
� The Bethe-Salpeter equation
� COHSEX and other Green's Function models