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<div class="">Dear QE users,</div>
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<div class="">This email is to announce the opening of the call for applications for the <b class="">"Wannier 2022 Summer School" to be held at ICTP (Trieste, Italy) from 16 to 20 May 2022.</b></div>
<div class=""><b class=""><b class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The application deadline has been extended to 20 March 2022. Applications can be submitted on the event page [1], using the “Apply here” button on the left.</b></b></div>
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<div class="">This 5-day school is designed to allow participants to join both in-person and online, and consists of lectures and hands-on sessions on a wide range of electronic-structure methods based on Wannier functions. </div>
<div class="">It includes highlight talks by distinguished speakers that provide a historical and broad perspective on WFs in electronic structure, dedicated lectures to the theory and methods of WFs, as well as hands-on tutorials at the basic and advanced
level.</div>
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<div class="">The event targets graduate students, early-career scientists, and experienced users. The program covers a wide range of complex materials properties using various software packages (Wannier90, ASE, PythTB, Z2Pack, WannierTools, WannierBerri, AiiDA,
EPW, TRIQS).</div>
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<div class="">Detailed information on the school (including the school topics and the list of invited speakers) can be found on the event page [1]. </div>
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<div class="">As regards the COVID-19 policy, we advise you to follow the updated rules for entry in Italy [2], also available on the ICTP page “Access Guidelines for Visitors” [3]. In particular, applicants should check whether they have to undergo a quarantine
period at the time of arrival.</div>
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<div class="">Finally, we mention that the school will be followed the week after (23-27 May 2022) by the Wannier 2022 Developers Meeting, devoted to fostering integration between several packages composing the Wannier software ecosystem. More information can
be found on the Wannier 2022 Developers Meeting event page [4].</div>
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<div class="">We would be grateful if you could circulate this announcement among your colleagues.</div>
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<div class="">Best regards,</div>
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<div class="">Antimo Marrazzo, Sinisa Coh, Roxana Margine, Giovanni Pizzi, Stepan Tsirkin</div>
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<div class="">[1] <a href="http://indico.ictp.it/event/9789/" class="">http://indico.ictp.it/event/9789/</a> </div>
<div class="">[2] <a href="https://infocovid.viaggiaresicuri.it/" class="">https://infocovid.viaggiaresicuri.it/</a> </div>
<div class="">[3] <a href="https://www.ictp.it/ictp_covidresponse/ictp-visitors.aspx" class="">https://www.ictp.it/ictp_covidresponse/ictp-visitors.aspx</a> </div>
<div class="">[4] <a href="http://indico.ictp.it/event/9851/" class="">http://indico.ictp.it/event/9851/</a> </div>
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