[Wannier] Graduate School including W90

[Jonathan Yates]

Dear Wannier90 Users,

 I just wanted to highlight the Psi-k/CECAM/CCP9 Biennial Graduate School in Oxford this September. Arash Mostofi and I will be teaching a day on Wannier functions / Wannier90 (including the long promised v2.0 features!). There are still a few places available - but do sign up soon!

 Yours
  Jonathan


The Psi-k/CECAM/CCP9 Biennial Graduate School in Electronic-Structure Methods will take place in Oxford from Sunday 8th September until Friday 13th September 2013. This is a combined theory and hands-on school, with morning sessions dedicated to lectures introducing theory and application of electronic structure methods, and afternoon sessions providing hands-on experience with the relevant codes on a high-performance compute cluster.

The methods covered, demonstration codes and lecturers will be

• Density Functional Theory and Density Functional Perturbation Theory: Quantum Espresso
  • Prof Paolo Gianozzi(Udine)
  • Dr Nicola Bonini (King College London)
• Wannier Functions: Wannier90
  • Dr Arash Mostofi (Imperial College)
  • Dr Jonathan Yates (Oxford)
• LMTO:
  • Prof Mark van Schilfgaarde (Kings College London)
  • Dr Martin Lueders (Daresbury Laboratory)
  • Dr Leon Petit (Daresbury Laboratory)
• GW: Yambo
  • Andrea Marini (CNR)

Further details

There will be a fixed academic participation fee of £100, that includes registration, 5 nights bed-and-breakfast accommodation at St Edmund Hall (one of the oldest and most atmospheric of the Oxford colleges) and the conference dinner. There will be a poster session to enable participants to present their research. Participants should plan to arrive by the evening of Sunday 9th September.

Oxford has regular train and coach connection to major UK cities (London is 1hr away by train (see here and 90min by coach (see here and here). There are frequent coaches from Heathrow Airport (every 30min, journey time 90min) and Gatwick (every hour, journey time 120min); see here.

Application deadline: 1st August 2013

To apply please complete the form linked from the following webpage
http://mml.materials.ox.ac.uk/Support/GraduateSchool2013

 Jonathan Yates (jonathan.yates at materials.ox.ac.uk)

On behalf of the Organizers

	• Dr Feliciano Giustino (Oxford)
	• Dr Martin Lueders (Daresbury Laboratory)
	• Dr Jonathan Yates (Oxford)