16–20 Nov 2015
ALBA Synchrotron
Europe/Madrid timezone

Programme

 WIEN2k Workshop                                                                           

Lectures

“Introduction to Density Functional Theory and the LAPW method”

“Introduction to WIEN2k package”

Exercises

I: Getting started, struct file, init, scf, charge density, DOS, bands

II: Volume optimization

III: Structure optimization

IV: Magnetism

V: Hybrid-DFT

VI: Core level spectroscopy (XSPEC).

 Turbomole Workshop                                                                        

Lectures

“Exploring Potential Energy Surface”

“Hartree-Fock method and beyond”

“Introduction to Density Functional Theory (somewhat chemically biased)”

Exercises

I: Getting started, preparing input and running calculations for simple closed-shell molecules,

II: DFT calculations on transition metal complexes.

III: Selected advanced topics: treatment of non covalent interactions in Turbomole (MP2, DFT-D); COSMO model for solvent; time dependent DFT for UV-Vis electronic spectra.