Co-Organized Events

Conferences and Workshops

Conferences and workshops focusing on the latest developments in computational molecular and materials science are an important part of our outreach. Activities include:

2020-24:

• Much ongoing - to be updated.

2019:

• Extended Software Development Workshop: Scaling Electronic Structure Applications 
  CECAM-IRL (Dublin), January 7, 2019 to January 18, 2019

2018:

• 2018 HybriD³ Theory Training Workshop for Materials Research  
  Duke University, September 28-29, 2018
• MolSSI Workshop / ELSI Conference: Solving or Circumventing Eigenvalue Problems in Electronic Structure Theory  
  August 15-17, 2018 - Richmond, Virginia
• Hands-On Workshop DFT and Beyond: Frontiers of Advanced Electronic Structure and Molecular Dynamics Methods  
  Peking University, Beijing, China, July 30th to August 10th, 2018
• Electronic Structure Theory with Numeric Atom-Centered Basis Functions  
  FHI-aims Developers' and Users' Meeting - July 9-11, 2018  
  Co-organized by Duke University, Fritz Haber Institute, USTC Hefei and Technical University of Munich (TUM) at TUM

2017:

• Hands-On Tutorial Workshop Density functional theory and beyond – Concepts and Applications 
  Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, July 31 - August 11, 2017  
  (with Carsten Baldauf (FHI Berlin), Igor Ying Zhang (FHI Berlin), Matthias Scheffler (FHI Berlin), funding: Volkswagen Foundation).

2016:

• Density Functional Theory and Beyond with Numeric Atom-Centered Orbitals 
  Munich, July 20-22, 2016 
  Lead organizer: Karsten Reuter, co-organizers Carsten Baldauf, Matthias Scheffler, and Volker Blum.
• Electronic Structure Library coding workshop: solvers 
  Zaragoza, June 6-17, 2016 
  This workshop, chiefly organized by Fabiano Corsetti, Yann Pouillon, and Emilio Artacho, continued the mission towards a common Electronic Structure Library across the boundaries of different codes.

2015:

• Hands-On Workshop: Density Functional Theory and Beyond 
  Berlin, July 13-24, 2015
• Electronic Structure Library coding workshop: utilities toolbox 
  Lausanne, June 1-5, 2015, CECAM 
  This workshop co-organized with Fabiano Corsetti, Micael Oliveira, and Arash Mostofi aims to set a standard and code base for an open-source electronic structure utilities library that can be shared, validated, and enhanced across any electronic structure code

2014:

• Density Functional Theory and Beyond with Numeric Atom-Centered Orbitals - FHI-aims Developers' and Users' Meeting 
  Harnackhaus Conference Center, Berlin, Germany, August 18-22, 2014 
  Organizers: Volker Blum (Duke), Carsten Baldauf, Christian Carbogno, Matthias Scheffler (all Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin) 
  Duke Participants: Volker Blum (Opening Keynote), Bjoern Lange (poster presentation)
• Hands-on Summer School: Electronic Structure Theory for Materials and (Bio)molecules 
  Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA, July 21 - August 01, 2014 
  Organizers: Volker Blum (Duke), Christian Carbogno (Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin), Christian Ratsch (IPAM, UCLA), Matthias Scheffler (Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin) 
  Duke Participants: Volker Blum (Keynote Lecture), Bjoern Lange (Keynote Lecture), William Huhn (Tutor), Tong Zhu, Manav Vohra