[Pw_forum] Electronic structure school & Quantum ESPRESSO tutorial in sunny California

[Stefano Baroni]

                     NSF/ICMR Summer School on
Materials Modeling from First Principles: Theory and Practice
               UC Santa Barbara, July 19 - Aug 1 2009

A summer school on "Materials Modeling from First Principles: Theory and
Practice" will be held at the International Center for Materials
Research in Santa Barbara from July 19 to August 1 2009. The school is
supported by the National Science Foundation and the International
Center for Materials Research, and is directed by S. Baroni, G. Galli,
N. Marzari, and S. Narasimhan. The school will combine morning lectures
with afternoon hands-on sessions based on the open-source
Quantum-ESPRESSO codes. Evening keynote lectures will be delivered by
some of the leading researchers in the field, including R. Car, W. Kohn
(to be confirmed), S. Louie (to be confirmed), R. Martin, M.  
Scheffler, and N. Spaldin.

The school is targeted at graduate students, postdocs, and senior
researchers who would like to gain experience in materials modeling
using state-of-the-art approaches based on density-functional theory.

The school will cover basic concepts and recent advances and
developments. The former include ground-state calculations for isolated
molecules and extended systems, pseudopotential theory and plane-wave
basis sets, forces, stresses, and geometry and reaction-path
optimizations, linear-response theory and phonons, and ab-initio
molecular dynamics. Advanced techniques include first-principles
spectroscopies (IR, Raman, EPR and NMR), third-order electron-phonon and
phonon-phonon response, time-dependent density-functional theory,
Hubbard corrections and non-collinear magnetism, and Wannier functions
and quantum transport.

Full or partial support is available to cover participation expenses
(travel, accommodation, and meals). Application forms can be downloaded
from http://www.icmr.ucsb.edu/programs/firstprinciples.html and must be
submitted by Mar 15th for applicants coming from outside the US and by
Apr 15th for applicants based in the US.


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Stefano Baroni - SISSA  &  DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center -  
Trieste
http://www.sissa.it/~baroni / [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) /  
stefanobaroni (skype)

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