[Pw_forum] Fwd: [yambo-team] School announcement (fwd)

[ANDREA FERRETTI]

School announcement:


The Yambo team is pleased to announce the school on:


"Advanced computing of excited state properties in solids and
nanostructures with Yambo"

that will take place from April 24 to April 28, 2017 at the CECAM
headquarters in Lausanne (Switzerland).

The application deadline is on February 24, 2017.

You can submit your application via:

https://www.cecam.org/workshop-6-1386.html


Applicants should have a working knowledge of a DFT or quantum-chemistry
code.


This 5-day hands-on tutorial funded by CECAM and Psi-k will provide
training in the theory and practice of computing
electronic and optical excitations within density functional and Green’s
function approaches (GW, TDDFT and BSE). Lectures
will also focus on the application of these techniques to the study of
realistic and challenging systems using the Yambo code
within a massively-parallel environment.

The number of participants will be limited to approx. 30.

The organization will partially cover living expenses (hotel) of the
participants.

Acceptance decisions will be made within 1 week after the deadline on the
basis of motivations and CV provided at the moment
of application. A small number of participants needing visas may be
accepted in advance. For more details, please follow the
above link.


School description:

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Characterization and engineering of advanced materials and nanostructures
often require an accurate description of their
excited state properties. This school will provide a balanced training both
in the fundamental theory of electronic and
optical excitations as well as practical strategies for computation of such
challenging systems within a massively parallel
environment. In particular, lecturers and invited experts will:
(1) discuss the formalism of the description of electronic excitations
(fundamentals of many body Green’s function theory, as
well as technical aspects);
(2) contextualise the practical strategies and motivations on a larger
scale; and
(3) demonstrate practical applications using the Yambo code.


Our goal is to thus equip students with the fundamental knowledge,
practical skills and computational tools needed to tackle
today’s challenging problems in materials science.


Lectures on the foundations of the theoretical methods will be complemented
by technical ones on numerical and computational
aspects. Three keynote talks will be given by invited expert speakers from
outside the Yambo community, and will cover
advanced computational material science methods (Prof Nicola Marzari -
EPFL), trends in high performance computing (Dr Carlo
Cavazzoni - CINECA), and alternative GW-BSE computational frameworks (Dr
Xavier Blase, CNRS Grenoble).

A significant part of the school will be dedicated to hands-on tutorials,
where participants will be given the opportunity to
carry out excited state calculations on several paradigmatic systems
(including 2D materials) under the guidance of the Yambo
code developers. A detailed program is available at:

https://www.cecam.org/workshop-0-1386.html


With kind regards,

the Yambo Team
http://www.yambo-code.org
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