Density functional theory and beyond:
Computational materials science for real materials

Held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste, Italy, August 06 - August 15, 2013

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Workshop Program

This schedule is final, all lectures are for 50 min + 10 min discussion.

Poster dimensions: The poster board size is limited as 1.00 m (width) x 1.90 m (height). For example, A0 portrait format should work. We do not handle poster printing.

Program and Abstract Booklet: Program-and-Poster-Abstracts_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

Tuesday, August 6: The Big Picture: Electronic Structure Theory
9:00 - 11:30 Registration (outside Kastler lecture hall, Adriatico guest house)

Participants arriving later can still register in the Conference Secretariat's office at the Adriatico Guest House (Office No. 1, Lower Level 1) during the morning hours.

14:30 - 14:45Volker Blum, Ralph GebauerIntroductory remarks
14:45 - 15:45Matthias SchefflerElectronic Structure Overview


Lecture_1_Scheffler_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

15:45 - 16:45Stefano BaroniChallenges Beyond Ground-State Electronic Structure Theory


Lecture_2_Baroni_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

16:45 - 17:15Coffee Break
17:15 - 19:00 Poster parade (2 min. talks by all participants)
19:00 - 22:00Welcome Reception
Wednesday, August 7: The Basics of DFT
09:00 - 10:00Mark CasidaExchange and Correlation


Lecture_3_Casida_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

10:00 - 11:00Volker BlumElectronic Structure Theory in Practice I


Lecture_4_Blum_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30Oliver HofmannElectronic Structure Theory in Practice II


Lecture_5_Hofmann_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

12:30 - 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 - 18:00Lydia Nemec, Oliver HofmannPractical Session 1: The basics of electronic structure theory


Intro_Tutorial1_2013.pdf, Tutorial1_2013.pdf

18:00 - 19:00Break
19:00 - 22:00Poster session for participants (posters will be up for the whole week)
Thursday, August 8: Periodic Systems: Basic Concepts for Solids and Surfaces
09:00 - 10:00Nikolaj MollPeriodic Systems: Concepts


Lecture_6_Moll_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

10:00 - 11:00Ralph GebauerThe Plane-Wave Pseudopotential Method


Lecture_7_Gebauer_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30Claudia DraxlThe Augmented Plane Wave Method


Lecture_8_Draxl_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

12:30 - 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 - 18:00Franz Knuth, Sergey LevchenkoPractical Session 2: Periodic Systems: Bulk Materials, Band Structures and Densities of States


Intro_Tutorial2_2013.pdf, Tutorial2_2013.pdf

18:00 - 20:30Dinner Break
20:30 - 22:00Extra computer time with tutors on hand
Friday, August 9: Beyond LDA and GGA: Correlation & Bringing Back the Nuclei (I)
09:00 - 10:00Sergey LevchenkoBeyond DFT for Extended Systems


Lecture_9_Levchenko_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

10:00 - 11:00Frank NeeseElectron Correlation: State of the Art in Quantum Chemistry


Lecture_10_Neese_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30Jörg Neugebauer"Real Materials": Ab Initio Thermodynamics
12:30 - 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00Mariana RossiAb Initio Molecular Dynamics


Lecture_12_Rossi_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

15:00 - 18:00Carsten Baldauf, Adriana Supady,
Franziska Schubert, Mariana Rossi,
Luca Ghiringhelli
Practical Session 3: Ab initio Molecular Dynamics


Tutorial3_2013.pdf

18:00 - 20:30Dinner Break
20:30 - 22:00Extra computer time with tutors on hand
Saturday, August 10
09:00 - 12:30Weekend research project with tutors on hand


CS_Constrained-Relaxation.pdf

CS_RPA-basis-sets.pdf

CS_anharmonic-vibrations.pdf

CS_embedding.pdf

CS_harmonic-vibrations.pdf

CS_minimum-energy-path.pdf, CS_minimum-energy-path.tgz

CS_replica-exchange_MD.pdf, CS_replica-exchange_MD.tgz

Microtutorial_PLUMED.pdf, Microtutorial_PLUMED.tgz

Microtutorial_Surface-Phase-Diagram.pdf, Microtutorial_Surface-Phase-Diagram.tgz

14:00 - Outing (with dinner)
Sunday, August 11
all dayWeekend research project with tutors on hand
Monday, August 12: Spectroscopy and Transport
09:00 - 10:00Ferdinand EversElectronic Transport
10:00 - 11:00Patrick RinkeMany-Body and GW


Lecture_14_Rinke_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30Heiko AppelTDDFT and Optical Properties


Lecture_15_Appel_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

12:30 - 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00Christian CarbognoCharge and Heat Transport in Solids


Lecture_16_Carbogno_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

15:00 - 18:00Karsten Rasim,
Christian Carbogno
Practical Session 4: Charge Transport in Solids at Finite Temperatures


Intro_Tutorial4_2013.pdf, Tutorial4_2013.pdf

18:00 - 20:30Dinner Break
20:30 - 21:00N.N.Open Stage: Summary of the weekend research project (Info-Lab)
21:00 - 22:00Extra computer time with tutors on hand
Tuesday, August 13: Beyond LDA and GGA: Correlation & Bringing Back the Nuclei (II)
09:00 - 10:00Luca GhiringhelliFrom Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics to Statistical Mechanics


Lecture_17_Ghiringhelli_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

10:00 - 11:00Alexandre Tkatchenko Practical Approach to Dispersion Interactions


Lecture_18_Tkatchenko_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30Roberto CarQuantum Nuclei


Lecture_19_Car_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

12:30 - 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 - 18:00Fabio Caruso, Heiko Appel,
Patrick Rinke
Practical Session 5: Excited State Formalisms


Intro_Tutorial5_2013.pdf, Tutorial5_2013.pdf

18:00 - 20:30Dinner Break
20:30 - 22:00Extra computer time with tutors on hand
Wednesday, August 14: Large Scale and Multiscale
09:00 - 10:00Peter HaynesLinear Scaling DFT


Lecture_20_Haynes_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

10:00 - 11:00Jörg BehlerCoarse-graining potential energy surfaces from ab initio data using artificial neural networks


Lecture_21_Behler_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30Peter Kratzer Coarse-Graining Time and Space: Kinetic Monte Carlo


Lecture_22_Kratzer_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

12:30 - 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 - 18:00Gus Hart, Conrad Rosenbrock,
Björn Bieniek
Practical Session 6: Multiscale


Intro_Tutorial6_2013.pdf, Tutorial6_2013.pdf

18:00 - 20:30Dinner Break
20:30 - 22:00Extra computer time with tutors on hand
Thursday, August 15: Towards Real-World Applications
09:00 - 10:00Gus Hart Deciphering the Materials Genome


Lecture_23_Hart_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

10:00 - 11:00Michael RiegerComputational Materials Science at BASF


Lecture_24_Rieger_HandsOnDFT2013.pdf

11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30Ellen D. WilliamsFrontiers for Basic Science (and Modelling) in Industry
12:30 - 14:00Lunch Break and end of the workshop

For reference, the program and tutorials offered at past hands-on workshops can be found at the following links:

Hands-On workshop 2011 in Berlin

Hands-On workshop 2009 in Berlin