Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to a symposium on “New Strategies for Solving the Kohn-Sham Equations to Obtain Electronic Ground and Excited States” at the SciCADE conference (https://scicade2021.hi.is/) hosted by the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, July 25 - 29, 2022. We welcome abstract submissions for contributed talks on latest developments in Kohn Sham density functional calculations of ground and excited states. More information about the symposium below.

Date of the symposium: July 25^th 
Abstract submission deadline: May 27^th
Submit your abstract at https://scicade2021.hi.is/paper-submission/ (select MS 40 - New Strategies for Solving the Kohn-Sham Equations to Obtain Electronic Ground and Excited States)

Description: Thanks to a good balance between accuracy and computational efficiency, Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS DFT) is the most widely used electronic structure method for both molecular and solid state systems. Solving the fundamental equations of KS DFT, the KS eigenvalue equations, still poses challenges in many applications, including systems in the presence of an external potential, electronic degeneracies and in calculations of excited states. This mini-symposium highlights recent advancements in algorithms to overcome these challenges and extend the applicability of KS DFT to larger and more complex systems than is currently possible.

The organizers,
Aleksei V. Ivanov ([email protected], Riverlane, Cambridge, UK)
Elvar Ö. Jónsson ([email protected], University of Iceland)
Gianluca Levi ([email protected], University of Iceland)