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The first of the two talks which I gave a few years ago at the Max Planck Institut in Stuttgart, Germany, describes projects that our group here at OSU has been involved in. While the talk isn't quite up to date, it gives you a good idea what kind of optical properties one can study using ``nearly first-principles'' calculations. It also describes some of the non-trivial problems that you may run into when you do optical response calculations. The second talk was my thesis defense talk. It gives you an overview over the connection between quasiparticle calculations and optical response which is one of the topics that I studied during my PhD.

Overview of optical calculations at OSU

Quasiparticle calculations and optical response

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Materials Science: Optics
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