Dear colleague,

We are pleased to announce that registration has opened for the two-weeks Summer School:

HANDS-ON DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY AND BEYOND:
HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING AND BIG-DATA ANALYTICS, TOWARDS EXASCALE COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

at University of Barcelona, Spain
from August 26 to September 6, 2019

Topics covered during the event will be the basics as well as recent developments of electronic-structure theory in materials science, solid-state physics, and computational chemistry. The focus will be in particular on density-functional theory (DFT), but also topics beyond DFT will be covered: ab initio thermodynamics, molecular dynamics, and statistical mechanics, excited-state properties, nuclear quantum effects, multi-scale modeling as well as machine learning approaches to potential parametrization, Big-Data dimensionality reduction, and property prediction. A special outlook will be given on the exascale computational material science.

The application and poster-abstract submission interfaces for the workshop are now open until April 23, 2019. For space reasons, the number of participants will be limited to approximately 60. Acceptance decisions will be made soon after the deadline. Financial support is available for a limited number of students.

Please visit our web page for further details and registration:
https://th.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/meetings/dft2019

We are looking forward to seeing you or your co-workers in Barcelona!
The organizers
(Eliseo, Sebastian, Francesc, Volker, Carsten, Matthias)