On 13-16 June 2023, the 35th Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods will be held at UC Merced.
Virtual 32nd workshop, 3-5 June 2020
- 2020 in-person workshop cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Registration closed on May 22.
- 9 am-12:30 pm PDT each day, to work with multiple time zones.
- Poster sessions: by Zoom discussions (with e.g. 3-5 slides to show) and/or short videos.
- Code tutorials, facilitated by Zoom and using the Cori supercomputer at NERSC
- Welcome to attendees from the African School of Electronic Structure Methods and Applications community!
- June 3:
- 9:00-10:20. Plenary talk: "Spin-orbit coupling: a small interaction leading to rich physics," Silvia Picozzi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto SPIN, Italy. Abstract, Recording via Facebook, YouTube (closed captions available)
- 10:20-10:30. "A Brief Overview of Physical Review Journals." You can talk to the editors in the poster session afterward (Zoom).
- 10:30-11:30. Poster session I.
- 11:30-12:30. Poster session II.
- If you are doing a tutorial, claim your Cori training account today to have it ready. If you have a problem in claiming the account, you can email NERSC to request assistance.
- June 4:
- 9:00-12:00. Tutorial on PARSEC: real-space DFT. Instructors: Jim Chelikowsky, Weiwei Gao, and Kai-Hsin Liou (University of Texas at Austin). Overview (Computing The Properties of Materials in Real Space): recording, slides; PARSEC recording, slides; NanoGW recording, slides.
- 9:00-12:00. Tutorial on Wannier-Berri: Berry curvature and orbital moments. Suggested reading and manual. Instructors: Stepan Tsirkin and Xiaoxiong Liu (University of Zürich), Miguel Ángel Jiménez Herrera (Centro de Física de Materiales, San Sebastián, Spain), Patrick M. Lenggenhager (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland). Zoom recording, tutorial files and slides.
- June 5:
- 9:00-12:00. Tutorial on BerkeleyGW: GW approximation and Bethe-Salpeter equation. Suggested reading about GW/BSE. Instructors: Felipe Jornada (Stanford), Diana Qiu (Yale), Bradford Barker and David Strubbe (UC Merced), Zhenglu Li, Meng Wu, Yang-hao Chan, and Mauro del Ben (UC Berkeley/LBNL) Zoom recording, Youtube, Overview and practicalities, GW example, BSE presentation on YouTube, BSE slides, example files
- 9:00-12:00. Tutorial on inq: modern C++ and plane-wave density functional theory. Instructors: Tadashi Ogitsu, Xavier Andrade, and Alfredo Correa (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). Recording, overview slides, Inq slides
Organizing committee
- David Strubbe (chair), Dept. of Physics, University of California, Merced
- Aurora Pribram-Jones, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Merced
- Steven G. Louie, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Jeffrey B. Neaton, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Status of In-person Conference
After cancellation of the APS March Meeting and many other conferences due to COVID-19 concerns: as per public health recommendations and University of California policy, we have cancelled the 2020 conference and postponed.
Original invited speakers from 2020
- Sayantani Ghosh, Department of Physics, University of California, Merced
- Beth Nowadnick, Department of Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering, University of California, Merced
- Benjamin Fregoso, Kent State University
- Liang Tan, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Stephanie Hansen, Sandia National Laboratory
- Stepan Tsirkin, University of Zurich
- Liang Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Jagoda Sławińska, University of North Texas / University of Groningen
- Yang-Hao Chan, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Zhenglu Li, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Valentino Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Shyue Ping Ong, University of California, San Diego
- Feliciano Giustino, University of Texas at Austin
- Eric L. Shirley, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- James Shee, University of California, Berkeley
- Claudia Filippi, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Estelle Inack, Perimeter Institute, Canada
- Brenda Rubenstein, Brown University
- Heather Kulik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Sandeep Sharma, University of Colorado, Boulder
The meeting will be conducted according to the American Physical Society's Code of Conduct for APS Meetings.
Last year: 2019, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
