During the last few decades, a large number of efficient computational techniques and algorithms have been developed for calculating the electronic structure of molecules, solids, surfaces, and clusters. These methods span from very accurate quantum chemistry techniques applied to small molecules up to tight-binding semi-empirical schemes, which make it possible to simulate systems composed of several thousand atoms. The development of density functional theory (DFT) plays a key role in opening a new avenue in materials science research i.e., the combined joint effort of DFT-based calculations with experiments to understand the research problem in more depth. 

An international workshop will be held ONLINE during December 14-18, 2020 to discuss various topics related to above. The objective of this international workshop is to introduce the electronic structure methods, its experimental realization, and relevant applications to the early career researcher community in one to one footing, mainly to Ph.D. students and postdocs.

The topics include: general discussions on Density Functional Theory, quasiparticles and GW, model Hamiltonians, Machine learning, experimental characterisation techniques such as electron spectroscopy, scanning tunnelling microscopy etc.

The website of the event is: https://www.srmist.edu.in/eester-2020/

The registration deadline is 7th December, 2020

This event is jointly organised by SRMIST KTR (India), IIT Madras (India) and Uppsala University (Sweden)