Program: topics and instructors

Week 1: Density Functional Theory Methods for Electronic Structure

  • The basics of Density Functional Theory (DFT)

  • Total energy and response functions

  • Pseudopotential methods

  • Hands-on introductions to methods and the ABINIT and SIESTA codes

  • Applications to materials using plane wave and local orbital codes

Week 2: Prediction of Thermodynamic and Kinetic Properties of Real Materials

  • Hands-on introduction to cluster-expansion techniques

  • DFT/experiment databases to predict properties of materials