Topics to be covered during the school include:
- Quantum Espresso with GPUs
- Maximally-localized Wannier functions
- Theory of electron-phonon coupling
- Carrier transport
- Phonon-mediated superconductivity
- Optical spectra including direct and phonon-assisted optical transitions
- Exciton-phonon interactions
- Polarons and self-trapped excitons
- Special displacement method for finite-temperature calculations
- GW quasiparticle band structures
- Excitons and Bethe-Salpeter equation
- GW perturbation theory
- Jupyter Notebooks for excited-states calculations
Hands-on tutorial sessions will be based on the following open-source codes:
Group photos from previous in-person events
University of Texas at Austin, 2022
International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste 2018
