Dear colleagues

there are still some places available at the hands-on school “Many-body response functions in the Questaal code”. The school will take place 21-25 May 2018, at Daresbury Laboratory, U.K. All local expenses (food, accommodation, & conference dinner) will be covered by the organisers.

For further information about the school, or to download the Questaal package, send queries to Laurie van Schilfgaarde at [email protected]

To register, please visit: http://www.cvent.com/d/3tqf09. The deadline for registration is 27th of April 2018. 

Questaal (http://www.questaal.org) is an all-electron package for solids that solves for the electronic structure at different levels of theory, including Density Functional Theory (DFT), the Quasiparticle Self-Consistent GW approximation (QSGW), and Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT). The basis set consists of generalized Linear Muffin Tin Orbitals, or a combination of these with augmented plane waves. The course will focus on QSGW and recent extensions in two contexts: extending many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) to include ladder diagrams, and by combining QSGW with Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT). Other extensions include the calculation of spin and charge susceptibilities, either in MBPT or in a DMFT framework.

The hands-on part will consist of tutorials explaining how to use the different approaches in the Questaal package in various contexts. The afternoons will be dedicated to users trying out the codes in guided exercises, or topics of their own choosing.