Goals
  • To introduce graduate students and young researchers, primarily from the South Asian region (but also from elsewhere) to basic concepts as well as new developments in the field of computational materials theory, with the emphasis being on density-functional methods.
  • To enable active researchers in this field to share their work with each other.
Structure of the school
  • From July 10 to 12, there will be introductory lectures, focusing on density-functional theory.
  • From July 13 to 15, there will be an international conference, with a theme focus for each day ("functional materials", "nanosystems" and "surface science").
  • From July 17 to 22, there will be lectures and hands-on computer sessions, where students will learn how to run DFT calculations using the quantum ESPRESSO distribution.
Directors / Organizers Sponsors
Stefano de Gironcoli (SISSA, Italy)
Richard Martin (UIUC, USA)
Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR, India)
Sandro Scandolo (ICTP, Italy)
David H. Vanderbilt (Rutgers University, USA)
Centre for Computational Materials Science (CCMS);
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics;
DEMOCRITOS;
International Centre for Materials Research, UC Santa Barbara;
Indo-US Science and Technology Forum;
JNCASR
Local organizer Contact
Umesh V. Waghmare (JNCASR, India) smr1783@jncasr.ac.in
smr1783@ictp.it