This summer school targeted an audience consisting of PhD students and young postdocs, industry-based researchers as well as researchers from countries without tier 0 supercomputing facilities. There were 45 participants, among which 9 ladies. The school covered a wide range of topics to show the challenges and opportunities of exascale computing in ab initio materials science. Lectures provided in-depth information on the fundamentals of advanced exchange-correlation functionals, many-body perturbation theory based on Green functions, and coupled-cluster method applied to solids. Special focus was on libraries and software applications developed in the NOMAD Center of Excellence, for which training was provided, including on LUMI, https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/, a powerful pre-exascale European Union high-performance computer. Fundamentals and recent developments in the field were presented by recognized experts, and there was plenty of room for open exchange between the young scientists and established international experts. Continue reading Summer School “Towards exascale solutions in Green function methods and advanced DFT” Paphos, Cyprus, October 3-8, 2023 →

20-24 May 2019, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium.

In order to benefit from an interesting synergy, the Abinit developer (ABIDEV) workshop 20-22/5/2019, and the workshop on precision quantification in DFT (PQ-DFT) 23-24/5/2019 were organized one after the other, in Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium. Both events attracted together more than 80  people, who attended the joint social dinner, on the evening of Wednesday 22 May.

A brief account of the ABIDEV workshop is now given, followed by the one of the PQ-DFT workshop. Links to the programs, the abstracts, the videos, the lists of participants are mentioned in the text. Group pictures  are presented at the bottom. Continue reading Combined events “ABINIT developer workshop” and “workshop on precision quantification in DFT” – Report →