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Workshop III: Density-Functional Theory Calculations for Modeling Materials and Bio-Molecular Properties and Functions - A Hands-On Computer Course

October 30 - November 5, 2005

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Sunday, October 30, 2005

6:00 Arrival: informal get-together, registration and dinner

Monday, October 31, 2005

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00

Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

"Basics of density-functional theory and fast guide to actual calculations"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:20

Karlheinz Schwarz (Technische Universität Wien)

"From APW to LAPW to (L)APW+lo"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:20 - 12:20

Peter Blaha (Technische Universität Wien)

"Introduction to the WIEN2k code"

12:20 - 1:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 6:00

Peter Blaha (Vienna University of Technology) and Jutta Rogal (Fritz-Haber Institute)

"Installing the WIEN2k code and Practical session I: Testing the numerical accuracy I, and calculating bulk E(V) curves "

6:00 - 7:00

Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

"Poster parade: announcing the posters, 2 minutes per participant"
Presentation (PDF File)

7:00 Poster Session with Dinner Buffet (posters will be on display until the end of the week)

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Peter Kratzer (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

"Algorithms for total-energy minimization and forces"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:20

Christian Ratsch (UCLA)

"Structure optimization, phase trasitions, phonons"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:20 - 12:20

Peter Blaha (Technische Universität Wien)

"k-point summation, "electron temperature", and more"

12:20 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 6:00

Mahboubeh Hortamani (Fritz-Haber Institute) and Peter Kratzer (Fritz-Haber Institute)

"Practical session II: Testing the numerical accuracy II, and calculating equilibrium structures, phase transitions frozen phonons"
Presentation (PDF File)

6:00 Dinner break...and back to the computers

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Martin Fuchs (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

"Comparison of different xc functionals "
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:20

Jutta Rogal (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

"Charge densities, energy bands, density of states, and Fermi surfaces"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:20 - 12:20

Karsten Reuter (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

"Bridging scales: Ab initio thermodynamics"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:20 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 6:00

Mira Todorova (University of Sydney) and Karsten Reuter (Fritz-Haber Institute)

"Practical session III: Calculating charge densities, energy bands, and density of states"

6:00 Dinner break...and back to the computers

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Marcus Elstner (Universität-GHS Paderborn)

"QM/MM calculations and applications to Biophysics"

10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:20

Karsten Reuter (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

"Bridging scales: Ab initio molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte Carlo"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:20 - 12:20

Mira Todorova (University of Sydney)

"Calculating core-level shifts, surface core-level shifts, STM images"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:20 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 6:00

Jutta Rogal (Fritz-Haber Institute) and Yongsheng Zhang (Fritz-Haber Institute)

"Practical session IV: Calculations for surfaces; surface structure, surface core-level shifts, and STM images "

6:00 Dinner break...and back to the computers

Friday, November 04, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Peter Blaha (Technische Universität Wien)

"Spin-orbit coupling, magnetism, strongly correlated electrons: charge-, spin- and orbital ordering I "
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:20

Karlheinz Schwarz (Technische Universität Wien)

"Spin-orbit coupling, magnetism, strongly correlated electrons: charge-, spin- and orbital ordering II"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:20 - 12:20

Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)

"Electron-phonon coupling"
Presentation (PDF File)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:20 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 6:00 Practical session V: Calculations on your own problems (with the help of all tutors)
6:00 Dinner break...and back to the computers

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Patrick Rinke (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

"Novel functionals and the GW approach"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:20

Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)

"Excited states: time-dependent DFT, self-energies in the GW approximation, and evaluating the Bethe-Salpeter equation"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:20 - 12:20

Joerg Behler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

"Comparison of different methods and codes:(L) APW, LMTO, PAW, pseudo potentials, gaussian, etc."
Presentation (PDF File)

12:20 Lunch (on your own) followed by rollerblading or biking at Venice and Santa Monica beaches

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