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WEIN idWIEN WORKSHOP - Program

 

INVITED SPEAKERS

Day I: Tuesday, June 23

Time
Activity
8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-9:00 J. Sofo (Penn State): Welcome
9:00-10:00 K. Schwarz (TU Wien): Density functional theory (DFT) and the concepts of the augmented-plane-wave plus local orbitals (APW+lo) method
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 P. Blaha (TU Wien): An overview of the new WIEN2k package.
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:30 Exercise I: Getting started, struct file, init, scf, charge density, DOS, bands.
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 P. Blaha (TU Wien): Structure optimization, volume, atomic positions (forces), minimization.
16:30-17:30 Exercise II: Volume optimization, force minimization, supercells.
   

Day II: Wednesday, June 24

Time
Activity
9:00-9:30 K. Schwarz (TU Wien): Magnetism (FM, FSM, AFM).
9:30-10:00 P. Blaha (TU Wien): Core-level spectra (XSPEC, ELNES).
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break (Group picture will be taken outside of Hammond Bldg.)
10:30-12:00 Exercise III: Spectra (xspec and elnes).
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 S. Cottenier (Ghent U.): Hyperfine Interactions
14:00-15:30 Exercise IV: Structure optimization, magnetism.
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Lab I: Work on personal or suggested project.
   

Day III: Thursday, June 25

Time
Activity
9:00-10:00 J. Sofo (Penn State): Optical Properties of solids with the WIEN2k package.
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 J. Sofo (Penn State): Transport coefficients.
11:00-12:00 Exercise V: Optic
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 S. Cottenier (Ghent U.): Relativistic Effects
13:30-14:00 F. Tran (TU Wien): LDA+U, Hybrid-DFT
14:00-15:30 Exercise VI: Magnetism, Spin-orbit, LDA+U.
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Lab II: Work on personal or suggested project.
begin 19:00 Conference Dinner: Days Inn Penn State
   

Day IV: Friday, June 26

Time
Activity
9:00-10:00 K. Schwarz (TU Wien): Large scale applications with WIEN2k
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:15 P. Blaha (TU Wien): Installation of WIEN2k, parallelization, Grid computing.
11:15-12:00 F. Tran (TU Wien): Advanced GGAs
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Lab III: Work on personal or suggested project.
14:00-15:00

Posters + Coffee: Discussion on the posters presented.

View posters:: The CRITIC Program - - Runwien: Text-Based Interface to WIEN2k

15:00-16:00 Round table: General discussion on WIEN2k. P. Blaha, S. Cottenier, K. Schwarz, J. Sofo, and F. Tran

 

 

Donna Lucas

Workshop Coordinator

The Pennsylvania State University
Materials Research Institute
280 MRL Bldg.
University Park PA 16802
(tel)1-814-865-1656
(fax)1-814-865-2326

 

**The Materials Simulation Center would like to acknowledge and thank the Center for Nanoscale Science and The Institute for CyberScience at Penn State (ICS@PSU) for their support of this event.