This workshop will examine off-the-beaten path approaches to electronic structure theory, particularly low-scaling and unconventional methods. Format: Invited lectures and poster presenters. Anyone attending, who is not an invited speaker, is expected to present a poster.

Themes for the LUEST 2018 workshop:
I. Unconventional electronic structure methods
Novel methods particularly for strong correlation
-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

Invited Speakers:

Dominika Zgid
Troy van Voorhis
Ed Valeev
Takashi Tsuchimochi
Seiichiro Ten-no
Toru Shiozaki
James Shepherd
Sandeep Sharma
Gustavo Scuseria
Brenda Rubenstein
Peter Pulay
Piotr Piecuch
Filip Pawlowski
Marcel Nooijen
Eric Neuscamman
Wenjian Liu
Shuhua Li
Xiasong Li
Heather Kulik
Jing Kong
Mihaly Kallay
Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos
Robert Izsak
Mark Hoffman
Tom Henderson
Laura Gagliardi
Francesco Evangelista
Janus Eriksen
Garnet Chan
Tim Berkelbach