We would like to announce the 3rd Annual BerkeleyGW Workshop and Tutorial, with hands-on user sessions, on the GW and GW-BSE approaches using the BerkeleyGW package.It will be held November 18-20, 2015, in the Oakland Conference Center near the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab NERSC Facility. The target participants for the Workshop are graduate students, postdocs, and researchers who are interested in learning about or sharpening their skills on ab initio calculations of many-electron effects in excited-state properties of condensed matter.

The BerkeleyGW Package is a set of computer codes that calculates the quasiparticle properties and the optical responses of a large variety of materials from bulk crystals to molecules and nanostructures such as slabs, sheets, tubes, wires, and dots. The package takes as input the mean-field results such as the Kohn-Sham DFT eigenvalues and eigenvectors computed with commonly available electronic structure codes including PARATEC, PARSEC, Quantum ESPRESSO, SIESTA, Octopus, TBPW (aka EPM), etc.

The Workshop will cover basic GW/BSE theory, features of the BerkeleyGW package (version 1.2), and detailed examples of using the BerkeleyGW package in conjunction with the above mentioned DFT packages.

For returning attendees, this year we will offer an advanced track as well as the ability to participate by presenting your research with BerkeleyGW, as either a contributed presentation or poster.

There is no registration fee, but the Workshop is restricted to ~60 participants. Please apply early at https://www.nersc.gov/users/training/events/berkeleygw2015/ and http://goo.gl/forms/F1u4pUuKjX where the tentative program and other information such as hotel accommodations are given.

Sincerely,

Steven G. Louie

Jack Deslippe