ICTP-NSFC School and Advanced Workshop on Modern Electronic Structure Computations

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in collaboration with the National Science Foundation of China and Fudan University, is jointly organizing a School and Advanced Workshop on Modern Electronic Structure Computations to be held in Shanghai from 8th to 12th July 2013. This event will consist of a two-days advanced workshop on recent advances in electronic structure theory, followed by a three-days hands-on school where students learn how to use modern electronic structure software. The workshop is intended to give participants, particularly the students of the school, an overview of what density-functional theory and related approaches can be used for in practice. Topics covered in the advanced workshop will include: Surfaces/interfaces and related quantum phenomena, modern approaches to theoretical spectroscopy, theoretical materials science for energy conversion and storage. The hands-on school will cover: Wannier functions, electron transport, first principles molecular dynamics, rare events and transition path sampling, time-dependent density functional theory, and many-body perturbation theory (GW approximation).