We are happy to announce that on July 11 - 15, 2017, the Telluride Science Research Center is home to the first Telluride School on Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. Please find all details here:

https://www.telluridescience.org/schools/telluride-school-time-dependent-density-function-theory

The school plans to host ~30 interested and motivated graduate students and post-docs. Applications are open now and will close on Friday, February 10, 2017. The application link is here:

https://telluridescience.org/#overlay=node/add/telluride-school-time-depend-app

Following the 5-day school, there will be a 5-day workshop on “Excited States: Electronic Structure and Dynamics” where invited speakers who are experts in TDDFT and applications will present their latest research. Summer school teachers will be presenting at the workshop, and students are encouraged to stay for the workshop (separate registration is necessary)!

School Description:

An accurate computational description of electronic excitations and charge-transfer processes that underlie e.g. next-generation energy-conversion, energy-storage, and catalytic systems through time-dependent quantum-mechanical theory is one of the most desirable goals of computational science today! This challenge requires accurate and efficient methods to compute ground and excited states, as well as the ability to explicitly treat real-time dynamics of electrons for systems consisting of hundreds of atoms: TDDFT arguably is the best compromise between accuracy and computational efficiency.

While TDDFT is formally exact, in practice approximations are needed and are far from black box. Many TDDFT scientific studies rely on high-performance super computers. Excellent scaling of TDDFT has been reported up to millions of cores, rendering this technique a highly interesting use case for the next generation of super computers. Clearly, it is essential for a user of TDDFT to have deep understanding of the theory along with hands-on experience in order to successfully model systems of interest - this is the goal of this school.

School Format:

This summer school is aimed at graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from computational as well as experimental research groups who seek to develop a deep understanding of TDDFT, regarding its capabilities, applications, limitations, and high-performance computing context. Attendees will be equipped with the theoretical and practical expertise to simulate time-dependent quantum dynamics of many-electron systems.

Theory lectures in the morning of each day, given by world-leading experts, will cover fundamental, theoretical aspects of TDDFT. Hands-on computational sessions in the afternoon will equip students with practical skills in two or three TDDFT codes. Please bring a laptop computer, as there are none available at TSRC and the hands-on activities require a computer!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at [email protected]. We are looking forward to seeing you in beautiful Telluride!

Christine Isborn (University of California at Merced)
Neepa Maitra (Hunter College City University of New York)
Andre Schleife (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)