HPC and high-throughput materials modeling - ICTP, Trieste 2017
Advanced Workshop on High-Performance & High-Throughput Materials Simulations using Quantum ESPRESSO | (smr 3102), Trieste, January 16 - 31, 2017.
DFT fundamentals: from theory to practice
Date: January 16, 2017
Description: Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham theory, variational principle, Hellman-Feynman theorem and energy derivatives.
DFT hands on
Date: January 16, 2017
Description: Total energy scf calculations, optimizations, bands, dos, and post-processing; insulators vs metals (k-points); SCs: defects, isolated systems, surfaces.
Notable failure of approximate DFT and possible remedies. Hybrids, vdW, ACFDT
Date: January 17, 2017
Basics of ab-initio Molecular Dynamics
Date: January 18, 2017
Description: Dynamics on the Born-Oppenheimer surface, energy conservation, ensembles, thermostats and barostats.
Car-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics
Date: January 18, 2017
Description: Adiabaticity, metals, thermostats and barostats, correlation times and averages.
Advanced Molecular Dynamics. Thermostats, Barostats and Nuclear Quantum Effects
Date: January 26, 2017