Dear colleagues,

We would like to announce the upcoming CECAM Flagship School "First steps with SIESTA: from zero to hero", which will run online in the week of October 2nd - October 6th 2023.

For general information and registration:

https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/1240

For up to date program:

https://siesta-project.org/siesta/events/SIESTA_School-2023/

The school is aimed at students and researchers from different disciplines who already use, or plan to use, first-principles techniques to simulate properties of matter at the atomic scale. In particular, the school will focus on the SIESTA method [1,2]. Participants will learn its essential theoretical foundations, and how to use the SIESTA code effectively. Pre- and post-processing tools will also be presented.

The School will consist of lectures from senior SIESTA developers and hands-on sessions where SIESTA experts will be available for discussion and guidance.

While autonomous work on the exercises will be possible throughout the day, lectures and most discussions will take place in the central hours of the day (Central European Summer Time).

The hands-on sessions will involve remotely executing pre-compiled versions of SIESTA on HPC systems located at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Indications on how to connect to BSC will be provided to accepted participants well in advance.

Persons interested in registering for the School need to apply through the "Participate" tab of the CECAM school web page.  Please make sure that your CECAM account is up to date and uses your current institutional email address. On the application form, please provide a brief statement of motivation and attach your CV.

The deadline for applications is the 4th September 2023.

We will review applications in stages and we will communicate all our acceptance decisions by email by the 8th September. The names of all the accepted participants will appear on the participants tab of the CECAM website.

The school is sponsored by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, CECAM-ES, and the MaX Centre of Excellence.

With best wishes,

The organisers

[1] José M Soler, Emilio Artacho, Julian D Gale, Alberto García, Javier Junquera, Pablo Ordejón, Daniel Sánchez-Portal: "The SIESTA method for ab initio order-N materials simulation", J. Phys. Condens. Matter 14, 2745 (2002).

[2] Alberto García, Nick Papior, Arsalan Akhtar, Emilio Artacho, Volker Blum, Emanuele Bosoni, Pedro Brandimarte, et al.: "Siesta: Recent Developments and Applications", J. Chem. Phys. 152, 204108 (2020).