[Pw_forum] Summer school

[Mike Towler]

Dear PWSCF users,

You may or may not know that PWSCF contains a built-in interface to CASINO 
- the Cambridge quantum Monte Carlo code. To cut a long story short -- and 
exaggerating only slightly -- this in principle allows you to take any 
system where PWSCF gets the answer wrong, and get it right instead. :-)

As this is normally thought to be a useful trick, the authors of CASINO 
(Neil Drummond, Pablo Lopez Rios, and I) run a quantum Monte Carlo summer 
school for you every August in the Apuan Alps Centre for Physics in 
Tuscany, Italy. This year's school - "Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO 
program XI" - will take place from the 2nd to the 10th August.

The summer school is also intended as a social occasion, where you can 
meet like-minded friends, future collaborators, and even wives and 
husbands (as has happened on multiple occasions in the past). You may also 
try your hand at hill walking and caving, eating nice food in Tuscan 
mountain restaurants, and similar enjoyable activities.

More details are available from this website:

http://vallico.net/casinoqmc/summer-schools/

So, if you want to come to Tuscany next summmer, learn how to use a very
useful feature of quantum Espresso, and possibly get married, you are very
welcome to apply.

Best wishes,
Mike Towler

PS: We also run a full international QMC conference the week before the 
summer school which usually attracts around 50 people, so if you already 
know what you're doing, you might like to come to that instead. See here:

http://vallico.net/casinoqmc/conferencesworkshops/


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