Hello everyone,

Before you finalize booking your trip to the APS March Meeting in New Orleans, we would like to bring the tutorial on "Electron Phonon Interactions", organized by Emmanouil Kioupakis and myself, to your attention:

https://www.aps.org/meetings/march/events/tutorials.cfm#t2

This tutorial is scheduled for Sunday, March 12, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m, and it aims at graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists interested in learning about first-principles numerical techniques to describe electron-phonon interactions.

Recent advances in the theoretical description and computational methodology have made harmonic and an-harmonic electron-phonon effects amenable to detailed investigations. While the underlying techniques are currently not standard and are oftentimes computationally expensive, the availability of modern high-performance computing enabled fantastic progress, e.g. for electron-phonon effects on band structures, optical absorption, recombination, and transport. In the near future it is expected that not only will the existing techniques be improved, but also become crucial for progress in many areas of materials research and condensed matter physics.

This tutorial bridges the gap of introducing the underlying theories, explaining practical calculations using modern software packages, and understanding exciting physics for real-world applications. The latter comprises studies of material systems e.g. in the realm of semiconductor optics or thermo-electrics. The tutorial will be interesting for computational materials scientists and physicists who contemplate investigating electron-phonon effects in their research but also for experimentalists who want to connect closer with computational materials science. We are happy to have four excellent speakers

• Feliciano Giustino, Oxford University
• Chris G. Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara
  
• Carsten Ullrich, University of Missouri
  
• Mark van Schilfgaarde, King’s College

Their talks will be very pedagogical in describing the theoretical foundations as well as computational approaches used in practice. Latest developments and open questions will naturally be integrated into all topics.

We're looking forward to seeing many of you on March 12! All the best,

Andre Schleife and Emmanouil Kioupakis