Friday, 09 April 2010
| To be held in Santander (Spain) from the 7th to the 10th of June of 2010. This is a four-day hands-on tutorial on the use of the Siesta code, aimed at researchers from different disciplines who already use, or plan to use, Siesta in their work and who would like to go beyond simply managing the code, to better understand its essential foundations and to learn to which problems and how exactly the code can be most successfully applied. Aimed also at students, the tutorial will offer a brief introduction into density-functional theory in a more general frame, to put the Siesta code in context.
Apart from the consideration of standard tasks implemented in most ab-initio codes, such as how to calculate the electronic (band) structure, perform structure (geometry) relaxation, calculate lattice vibrations or run molecular dynamics simulations, the specific Siesta topics to be covered include the generation and use of pseudopotentials, the construction of basis sets of strictly localized numerical atomic orbitals, the efficient computation of the matrix elements with linear scaling methods, the role and behaviour of the real-space grid manipulations, and the smart use of parallelization. The tutorial will consist of morning lectures followed in the afternoon by practical "hands-on" sessions. Some basic knowledge of quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, and statistical physics will be assumed, along with basic knowledge of UNIX and Fortran programming.
Please note that the level of this school is basic-intermediate, and just a few advanced topics will be covered. Hence, people with moderate experience using Siesta would probably profit more from one of the specialized topical schools that we occasionally offer.
* Application procedure:
The tutorial is supported by the Psi-k training contract from the European Union and the University of Cantabria. The EU requires that all applicants be classified according to their research experience, nationality and age, and these factors will affect the decision about the admission and the level of support granted. It is therefore very important that all relevant fields in the application form be filled out carefully. In particular, note that the measure of research experience is based on the date of the degree (B.Sc., master, etc) that gave access to doctoral studies.
The application process consists of two steps:
1. Send an e-mail to the Siesta manager (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es) indicating explicitly:
- name;
- date of birth;
- gender;
- nationality;
- degrees obtained (bachelor, master, Ph. D.) with corresponding dates;
- institution.
The deadline for this application is May 4th, 2010.
2. The applications will then be sorted according to the EU regulations, and a final letter of acceptance will be sent to applicants around May 7th, 2010.
Due to the logistics demands of the hands-on sessions, the number of participants will be limited to 35-40.
After final acceptance, a fee of 250 euros/student will be required (payable by bank transfer -- more details will be provided at that point). Together with the training contract support of the Psi-k network and the help by the University of Cantabria, this will cover four nights in a three star seafront hotel, breakfasts, lunches and coffee breaks.
The travel to Santander and the dinners have to be managed by students on their own.
* Organizers:
Javier Junquera, Univ. Cantabria, Spain (javier.junquera@unican.es)
Jose Antonio Torres (Siesta manager) (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es)
* Tentative instructors:
Emilio Artacho
Julian Gale
Alberto García
Javier Junquera
Andrei Postnikov
Daniel Sanchez-Portal
Jose Antonio Torres
Esteban Stafford (technical support)
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Efficient density-functional calculations with atomic orbitals: Hands-on tutorial on the SIESTA code
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Friday, 09 April 2010
| To be held in Santander (Spain) from the 7th to the 10th of June of 2010. This is a four-day hands-on tutorial on the use of the Siesta code, aimed at researchers from different disciplines who already use, or plan to use, Siesta in their work and who would like to go beyond simply managing the code, to better understand its essential foundations and to learn to which problems and how exactly the code can be most successfully applied. Aimed also at students, the tutorial will offer a brief introduction into density-functional theory in a more general frame, to put the Siesta code in context.
Apart from the consideration of standard tasks implemented in most ab-initio codes, such as how to calculate the electronic (band) structure, perform structure (geometry) relaxation, calculate lattice vibrations or run molecular dynamics simulations, the specific Siesta topics to be covered include the generation and use of pseudopotentials, the construction of basis sets of strictly localized numerical atomic orbitals, the efficient computation of the matrix elements with linear scaling methods, the role and behaviour of the real-space grid manipulations, and the smart use of parallelization. The tutorial will consist of morning lectures followed in the afternoon by practical "hands-on" sessions. Some basic knowledge of quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, and statistical physics will be assumed, along with basic knowledge of UNIX and Fortran programming.
Please note that the level of this school is basic-intermediate, and just a few advanced topics will be covered. Hence, people with moderate experience using Siesta would probably profit more from one of the specialized topical schools that we occasionally offer.
* Application procedure:
The tutorial is supported by the Psi-k training contract from the European Union and the University of Cantabria. The EU requires that all applicants be classified according to their research experience, nationality and age, and these factors will affect the decision about the admission and the level of support granted. It is therefore very important that all relevant fields in the application form be filled out carefully. In particular, note that the measure of research experience is based on the date of the degree (B.Sc., master, etc) that gave access to doctoral studies.
The application process consists of two steps:
1. Send an e-mail to the Siesta manager (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es) indicating explicitly:
- name;
- date of birth;
- gender;
- nationality;
- degrees obtained (bachelor, master, Ph. D.) with corresponding dates;
- institution.
The deadline for this application is May 4th, 2010.
2. The applications will then be sorted according to the EU regulations, and a final letter of acceptance will be sent to applicants around May 7th, 2010.
Due to the logistics demands of the hands-on sessions, the number of participants will be limited to 35-40.
After final acceptance, a fee of 250 euros/student will be required (payable by bank transfer -- more details will be provided at that point). Together with the training contract support of the Psi-k network and the help by the University of Cantabria, this will cover four nights in a three star seafront hotel, breakfasts, lunches and coffee breaks.
The travel to Santander and the dinners have to be managed by students on their own.
* Organizers:
Javier Junquera, Univ. Cantabria, Spain (javier.junquera@unican.es)
Jose Antonio Torres (Siesta manager) (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es)
* Tentative instructors:
Emilio Artacho
Julian Gale
Alberto García
Javier Junquera
Andrei Postnikov
Daniel Sanchez-Portal
Jose Antonio Torres
Esteban Stafford (technical support)
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Efficient density-functional calculations with atomic orbitals: Hands-on tutorial on the SIESTA code
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Friday, 09 April 2010
| To be held in Santander (Spain) from the 7th to the 10th of June of 2010. This is a four-day hands-on tutorial on the use of the Siesta code, aimed at researchers from different disciplines who already use, or plan to use, Siesta in their work and who would like to go beyond simply managing the code, to better understand its essential foundations and to learn to which problems and how exactly the code can be most successfully applied. Aimed also at students, the tutorial will offer a brief introduction into density-functional theory in a more general frame, to put the Siesta code in context.
Apart from the consideration of standard tasks implemented in most ab-initio codes, such as how to calculate the electronic (band) structure, perform structure (geometry) relaxation, calculate lattice vibrations or run molecular dynamics simulations, the specific Siesta topics to be covered include the generation and use of pseudopotentials, the construction of basis sets of strictly localized numerical atomic orbitals, the efficient computation of the matrix elements with linear scaling methods, the role and behaviour of the real-space grid manipulations, and the smart use of parallelization. The tutorial will consist of morning lectures followed in the afternoon by practical "hands-on" sessions. Some basic knowledge of quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, and statistical physics will be assumed, along with basic knowledge of UNIX and Fortran programming.
Please note that the level of this school is basic-intermediate, and just a few advanced topics will be covered. Hence, people with moderate experience using Siesta would probably profit more from one of the specialized topical schools that we occasionally offer.
* Application procedure:
The tutorial is supported by the Psi-k training contract from the European Union and the University of Cantabria. The EU requires that all applicants be classified according to their research experience, nationality and age, and these factors will affect the decision about the admission and the level of support granted. It is therefore very important that all relevant fields in the application form be filled out carefully. In particular, note that the measure of research experience is based on the date of the degree (B.Sc., master, etc) that gave access to doctoral studies.
The application process consists of two steps:
1. Send an e-mail to the Siesta manager (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es) indicating explicitly:
- name;
- date of birth;
- gender;
- nationality;
- degrees obtained (bachelor, master, Ph. D.) with corresponding dates;
- institution.
The deadline for this application is May 4th, 2010.
2. The applications will then be sorted according to the EU regulations, and a final letter of acceptance will be sent to applicants around May 7th, 2010.
Due to the logistics demands of the hands-on sessions, the number of participants will be limited to 35-40.
After final acceptance, a fee of 250 euros/student will be required (payable by bank transfer -- more details will be provided at that point). Together with the training contract support of the Psi-k network and the help by the University of Cantabria, this will cover four nights in a three star seafront hotel, breakfasts, lunches and coffee breaks.
The travel to Santander and the dinners have to be managed by students on their own.
* Organizers:
Javier Junquera, Univ. Cantabria, Spain (javier.junquera@unican.es)
Jose Antonio Torres (Siesta manager) (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es)
* Tentative instructors:
Emilio Artacho
Julian Gale
Alberto García
Javier Junquera
Andrei Postnikov
Daniel Sanchez-Portal
Jose Antonio Torres
Esteban Stafford (technical support)
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Efficient density-functional calculations with atomic orbitals: Hands-on tutorial on the SIESTA code
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Friday, 09 April 2010
| To be held in Santander (Spain) from the 7th to the 10th of June of 2010. This is a four-day hands-on tutorial on the use of the Siesta code, aimed at researchers from different disciplines who already use, or plan to use, Siesta in their work and who would like to go beyond simply managing the code, to better understand its essential foundations and to learn to which problems and how exactly the code can be most successfully applied. Aimed also at students, the tutorial will offer a brief introduction into density-functional theory in a more general frame, to put the Siesta code in context.
Apart from the consideration of standard tasks implemented in most ab-initio codes, such as how to calculate the electronic (band) structure, perform structure (geometry) relaxation, calculate lattice vibrations or run molecular dynamics simulations, the specific Siesta topics to be covered include the generation and use of pseudopotentials, the construction of basis sets of strictly localized numerical atomic orbitals, the efficient computation of the matrix elements with linear scaling methods, the role and behaviour of the real-space grid manipulations, and the smart use of parallelization. The tutorial will consist of morning lectures followed in the afternoon by practical "hands-on" sessions. Some basic knowledge of quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, and statistical physics will be assumed, along with basic knowledge of UNIX and Fortran programming.
Please note that the level of this school is basic-intermediate, and just a few advanced topics will be covered. Hence, people with moderate experience using Siesta would probably profit more from one of the specialized topical schools that we occasionally offer.
* Application procedure:
The tutorial is supported by the Psi-k training contract from the European Union and the University of Cantabria. The EU requires that all applicants be classified according to their research experience, nationality and age, and these factors will affect the decision about the admission and the level of support granted. It is therefore very important that all relevant fields in the application form be filled out carefully. In particular, note that the measure of research experience is based on the date of the degree (B.Sc., master, etc) that gave access to doctoral studies.
The application process consists of two steps:
1. Send an e-mail to the Siesta manager (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es) indicating explicitly:
- name;
- date of birth;
- gender;
- nationality;
- degrees obtained (bachelor, master, Ph. D.) with corresponding dates;
- institution.
The deadline for this application is May 4th, 2010.
2. The applications will then be sorted according to the EU regulations, and a final letter of acceptance will be sent to applicants around May 7th, 2010.
Due to the logistics demands of the hands-on sessions, the number of participants will be limited to 35-40.
After final acceptance, a fee of 250 euros/student will be required (payable by bank transfer -- more details will be provided at that point). Together with the training contract support of the Psi-k network and the help by the University of Cantabria, this will cover four nights in a three star seafront hotel, breakfasts, lunches and coffee breaks.
The travel to Santander and the dinners have to be managed by students on their own.
* Organizers:
Javier Junquera, Univ. Cantabria, Spain (javier.junquera@unican.es)
Jose Antonio Torres (Siesta manager) (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es)
* Tentative instructors:
Emilio Artacho
Julian Gale
Alberto García
Javier Junquera
Andrei Postnikov
Daniel Sanchez-Portal
Jose Antonio Torres
Esteban Stafford (technical support)
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Efficient density-functional calculations with atomic orbitals: Hands-on tutorial on the SIESTA code
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|
|
Friday, 09 April 2010
| To be held in Santander (Spain) from the 7th to the 10th of June of 2010. This is a four-day hands-on tutorial on the use of the Siesta code, aimed at researchers from different disciplines who already use, or plan to use, Siesta in their work and who would like to go beyond simply managing the code, to better understand its essential foundations and to learn to which problems and how exactly the code can be most successfully applied. Aimed also at students, the tutorial will offer a brief introduction into density-functional theory in a more general frame, to put the Siesta code in context.
Apart from the consideration of standard tasks implemented in most ab-initio codes, such as how to calculate the electronic (band) structure, perform structure (geometry) relaxation, calculate lattice vibrations or run molecular dynamics simulations, the specific Siesta topics to be covered include the generation and use of pseudopotentials, the construction of basis sets of strictly localized numerical atomic orbitals, the efficient computation of the matrix elements with linear scaling methods, the role and behaviour of the real-space grid manipulations, and the smart use of parallelization. The tutorial will consist of morning lectures followed in the afternoon by practical "hands-on" sessions. Some basic knowledge of quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, and statistical physics will be assumed, along with basic knowledge of UNIX and Fortran programming.
Please note that the level of this school is basic-intermediate, and just a few advanced topics will be covered. Hence, people with moderate experience using Siesta would probably profit more from one of the specialized topical schools that we occasionally offer.
* Application procedure:
The tutorial is supported by the Psi-k training contract from the European Union and the University of Cantabria. The EU requires that all applicants be classified according to their research experience, nationality and age, and these factors will affect the decision about the admission and the level of support granted. It is therefore very important that all relevant fields in the application form be filled out carefully. In particular, note that the measure of research experience is based on the date of the degree (B.Sc., master, etc) that gave access to doctoral studies.
The application process consists of two steps:
1. Send an e-mail to the Siesta manager (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es) indicating explicitly:
- name;
- date of birth;
- gender;
- nationality;
- degrees obtained (bachelor, master, Ph. D.) with corresponding dates;
- institution.
The deadline for this application is May 4th, 2010.
2. The applications will then be sorted according to the EU regulations, and a final letter of acceptance will be sent to applicants around May 7th, 2010.
Due to the logistics demands of the hands-on sessions, the number of participants will be limited to 35-40.
After final acceptance, a fee of 250 euros/student will be required (payable by bank transfer -- more details will be provided at that point). Together with the training contract support of the Psi-k network and the help by the University of Cantabria, this will cover four nights in a three star seafront hotel, breakfasts, lunches and coffee breaks.
The travel to Santander and the dinners have to be managed by students on their own.
* Organizers:
Javier Junquera, Univ. Cantabria, Spain (javier.junquera@unican.es)
Jose Antonio Torres (Siesta manager) (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es)
* Tentative instructors:
Emilio Artacho
Julian Gale
Alberto García
Javier Junquera
Andrei Postnikov
Daniel Sanchez-Portal
Jose Antonio Torres
Esteban Stafford (technical support)
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Efficient density-functional calculations with atomic orbitals: Hands-on tutorial on the SIESTA code
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|
|
Friday, 09 April 2010
| To be held in Santander (Spain) from the 7th to the 10th of June of 2010. This is a four-day hands-on tutorial on the use of the Siesta code, aimed at researchers from different disciplines who already use, or plan to use, Siesta in their work and who would like to go beyond simply managing the code, to better understand its essential foundations and to learn to which problems and how exactly the code can be most successfully applied. Aimed also at students, the tutorial will offer a brief introduction into density-functional theory in a more general frame, to put the Siesta code in context.
Apart from the consideration of standard tasks implemented in most ab-initio codes, such as how to calculate the electronic (band) structure, perform structure (geometry) relaxation, calculate lattice vibrations or run molecular dynamics simulations, the specific Siesta topics to be covered include the generation and use of pseudopotentials, the construction of basis sets of strictly localized numerical atomic orbitals, the efficient computation of the matrix elements with linear scaling methods, the role and behaviour of the real-space grid manipulations, and the smart use of parallelization. The tutorial will consist of morning lectures followed in the afternoon by practical "hands-on" sessions. Some basic knowledge of quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, and statistical physics will be assumed, along with basic knowledge of UNIX and Fortran programming.
Please note that the level of this school is basic-intermediate, and just a few advanced topics will be covered. Hence, people with moderate experience using Siesta would probably profit more from one of the specialized topical schools that we occasionally offer.
* Application procedure:
The tutorial is supported by the Psi-k training contract from the European Union and the University of Cantabria. The EU requires that all applicants be classified according to their research experience, nationality and age, and these factors will affect the decision about the admission and the level of support granted. It is therefore very important that all relevant fields in the application form be filled out carefully. In particular, note that the measure of research experience is based on the date of the degree (B.Sc., master, etc) that gave access to doctoral studies.
The application process consists of two steps:
1. Send an e-mail to the Siesta manager (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es) indicating explicitly:
- name;
- date of birth;
- gender;
- nationality;
- degrees obtained (bachelor, master, Ph. D.) with corresponding dates;
- institution.
The deadline for this application is May 4th, 2010.
2. The applications will then be sorted according to the EU regulations, and a final letter of acceptance will be sent to applicants around May 7th, 2010.
Due to the logistics demands of the hands-on sessions, the number of participants will be limited to 35-40.
After final acceptance, a fee of 250 euros/student will be required (payable by bank transfer -- more details will be provided at that point). Together with the training contract support of the Psi-k network and the help by the University of Cantabria, this will cover four nights in a three star seafront hotel, breakfasts, lunches and coffee breaks.
The travel to Santander and the dinners have to be managed by students on their own.
* Organizers:
Javier Junquera, Univ. Cantabria, Spain (javier.junquera@unican.es)
Jose Antonio Torres (Siesta manager) (jose.torres.alonso@uam.es)
* Tentative instructors:
Emilio Artacho
Julian Gale
Alberto García
Javier Junquera
Andrei Postnikov
Daniel Sanchez-Portal
Jose Antonio Torres
Esteban Stafford (technical support)
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