[QE-users] Advanced Quantum ESPRESSO tutorial: Hubbard and Koopmans functionals from linear response

[Nicola Marzari]

Very nice! If you haven't already posted to Psi-k, highligt keynote 
speakers early on


On 29/07/2022 11:02, Iurii TIMROV via users wrote:
> Dear Quantum ESPRESSO community,
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> We are pleased to announce the "Advanced Quantum ESPRESSO tutorial: 
> Hubbard and Koopmans functionals from linear response".
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> Dates:9-11 November 2022
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> Format:Online
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> Registration fee: 0 (free of charge)
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> Deadline for applications:1 October 2022
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> Website of the event:https://sites.google.com/view/hubbard-koopmans 
> <https://sites.google.com/view/hubbard-koopmans>
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> The goal of this tutorial is to introduce PhD students, postdocs, and 
> junior scientists to the use of advanced functionals aimed at modeling 
> complex materials, such as the extended Hubbard and Koopmans 
> functionals. By eliminating self-interaction errors and restoring total 
> energy piecewise linearity, these advances broaden the scope of DFT by 
> either improving the ground-state description of transition-metal and 
> rare-earth compounds or by giving access to accurate spectral properties 
> (like fundamental band gaps and band structures). Their actual 
> implementation also takes advantage of linear-response theory through 
> the self-consistent incarnation contained in density-functional 
> perturbation theory. The first day of the tutorial will be devoted to an 
> introduction to fundamental aspects of DFT using local and semi-local 
> functionals, its application to materials science and physics, and its 
> limitations. In the next 2 days, the tutorial will cover the theoretical 
> framework of Hubbard and Koopmans functionals (the main topic of this 
> event) and their applications to representative case studies. The 
> reference computational platform of the tutorial will be Quantum 
> ESPRESSO, a widely used open-source electronic-structure software, which 
> implements both extended Hubbard and Koopmans functionals.
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> If attending the Psi-k conference in Lausanne, feel free to come and see 
> us at the MARVEL and MaX booths to learn more about the virtual tutorial 
> and the codes involved.
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> Keynote speakers:
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> Leoor Kronik <https://fhrc.huji.ac.il/people/leeor-kronik>(Weizmann 
> Institute of Science, Israel)
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> Renata Wentzcovitch 
> <https://www.apam.columbia.edu/faculty/renata-wentzcovitch>(Columbia 
> University, USA)
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> Matteo Gatti <https://etsf.polytechnique.fr/People/Matteo>(École 
> Polytechnique, France)
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> Lecturers:
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> Nicola Marzari <https://people.epfl.ch/nicola.marzari>(EPFL and PSI, 
> Switzerland)
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> Giovanni Pizzi <https://people.epfl.ch/giovanni.pizzi>(EPFL and PSI, 
> Switzerland)
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> Edward Linscott <https://people.epfl.ch/edward.linscott>(EPFL, Switzerland)
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> Iurii Timrov <https://people.epfl.ch/iurii.timrov>(EPFL, Switzerland)
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> Nicola Colonna <https://www.psi.ch/en/lns/people/nicola-colonna>(PSI, 
> Switzerland)
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> Andrea Floris <https://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/afloris>(Lincoln University, UK)
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> Andrea Ferretti <http://max-centre.eu/andrea-ferretti-0>(CNR Modena, Italy)
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> **Matteo Cococcioni 
> <https://fisica.unipv.it/personale/Persona.php?ID=505>(University of 
> Pavia, Italy)**
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> Yours sincerely,
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> Iurii Timrov, Nicola Colonna, Matteo Cococcioni, and Andrea Ferretti
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Director, National Centre for Competence in Research NCCR MARVEL, SNSF
Head, Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Paul Scherrer Institut
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