Program

Monday, May 12, 2014

Time Event  
08:00 - 08:25 Breakfast  
08:25 - 08:30 Welcome address from the organizers - Razvan Caracas  
08:30 - 10:00 Lecture 1a (beginners) : Introduction to DFT, plane-waves, pseudopotentials - Matteo Giantomassi
 
08:30 - 10:00 Lecture 1b (advanced) : Introduction to the PAW approach - Marc Torrent
 
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break  
10:30 - 12:00 Lecture 2a (beginners) : Introduction to DFT, plane-waves, pseudopotentials - Matteo Giantomassi  
10:30 - 12:00 Lecture 2b (advanced) : Generation of PAW potential and basis - Marc Torrent & François Jollet
 
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 15:30 Hands-on 1a (beginners): On-line basic lessons 1 (on H2 molecule) - Matteo Giantomassi & Eric Bousquet  
13:30 - 15:30 Hands-on 1b (advanced): On-line lesson on PAW method (PAW1) - Marc Torrent + François Jollet + Joe Zwanziger  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 18:00 Hands-on 2a (beginners): On-line basic lessons 2 (on H2 molecule) - Matteo Giantomassi & Eric Bousquet  
16:00 - 18:00 Hands-on 2a (advanced): On-line lesson on PAW method (PAW2 - generation of atomic data files) - François Jollet + Marc Torrent + Joe Zwanziger  
18:00 - 19:30 POSTERS  

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Time Event  
08:30 - 09:30 Lecture 3a (beginners) : Interactive techniques - Xavier Gonze
 
08:30 - 09:30 Lecture 3b (advanced) : DFT+U and spin orbit - Marc Torrent  
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee break  
10:00 - 11:00 Lecture 4 (everybody) : Polarization, Berry phase and calculations in finite electric fields - Joe Zwanziger  
11:00 - 12:00 Lecture 5 (everybody) : Basics of density functional perturbation theory - Gian-Marco Rignanese
 
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 15:30 Hands-on 3 (beginners): On-line basic lesson 3 (silicon) - Xavier Gonze + Philippe Ghosez + Gian-Marco Rignanese  
13:30 - 15:30 Hands-on 3 (advanced) : DFT+U & free discussion - Marc Torrent + François Jollet + Matteo Giantomassi  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 18:00 Hands-on 4 (everybody) : On-line lesson on polarization and finite electric fields - Joe Zwanziger + Eric Bousquet + Philippe Ghosez
 
18:00 - 19:30 POSTER Session  

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Time Event  
08:30 - 09:30 Lecture 6 (everybody) : Linear responses to electric fields and atomic displacements - Xavier Gonze  
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee break  
10:00 - 11:00 Lecture 7 (everybody) : Phonon dispersion curves, interatomic force constants and thermodynamic properties. - Philippe Ghosez
 
11:00 - 12:00 Lecture 8 (everybody) : Phonon symetries + dielectric response - Gian-Marco Rignanese & Matteo Giantomassi  
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 15:30 Hands-on 5 (everybody): On-line lessons on response-function 1 - Xavier Gonze + Philippe Ghosez + François Jollet  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 18:00 Hands-on lesson 6 (everybody): On-line lessons on response-function 2 - Gian-Marco Rignanese + Philippe Ghosez + Matthieu Verstraete  
19:30 - 22:30 ABINIT social dinner  

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Time Event  
08:30 - 09:30 Lecture 9 (everybody): Elastic and piezoelectric responses - Razvan Caracas  
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee break  
10:00 - 11:00 Lecture 10 (everybody) : Electron-phonon coupling - Matthieu Verstraete
 
11:00 - 12:00 Lecture 11 (everybody) : Static non-linear optical responses (Raman susceptibilities, non-linear optical susceptibilities, electro-optic tensor) - Razvan Caracas  
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 15:30 Hands-on lesson 7 (everybody) : elastic and piezoelectric properties - Razvan Caracas + Eric Bousquet + Marc Torrent  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 18:00 Hands-on lesson 8 (everybody): electron-phonon interaction - Matthieu Verstraete + Matteo Giantomassi + Xavier Gonze  

Friday, May 16, 2014

Time Event  
08:30 - 10:00 Lecture 12 (everybody) : Magnetism, magnetic materials, orbital magnetism, magnetic field effect - Eric Bousquet
 
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break  
10:30 - 12:00 Hands-on lesson 9 (everybody) : static non-linear properties  
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 15:30 Hands-on lesson 10 (everybody) : spin + Free discussion with the participants on their own difficulties  
  
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