Dear SIESTA users and developers,
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming school "First-principles simulations
of materials with SIESTA". The school will be held online in the week of June
28th - July 2nd, 2021.
The school web page is:
https://siesta-project.org/siesta/events/SIESTA_School-2021/
For general information and registration:
https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/5
https://forms.office.com/r/BQYpMkku4V
You need to *register via both the CECAM website and the MS Form above by the
4th June 2021*.
The school is aimed at students and researchers from different disciplines who
already use, or plan to use, first-principles techniques to simulate properties
of matter at the atomic scale. In particular, the school will focus on the
SIESTA method [1,2]. Participants will learn its essential theoretical
foundations, and how to use the SIESTA code effectively. Pre- and
post-processing tools will also be presented. The format of the school
(completely online) allows for a flexible offering of modules of different
levels, from basic to advanced, so that participants can adapt their syllabus.
In addition, the material prepared for the school will be integrated into the
corpus of SIESTA documentation, which will remain available for continuous learning.
The School will be formally held in the week of June 28th -- July 2nd, 2021, but
the week before participants are expected to watch pre-recorded lectures,
prepare their local computer setup, and work on simple exercises. Throughout the
School week, live meetings will be offered in two tracks (morning and afternoon
in Central-European Summer Time) to try to adapt to an audience distributed over
different time zones, and will consist of reviews of relevant concepts (with Q&A
sections) and guided hands-on exercises. The live sessions will take place from
09:30 to 12:30 CEST (Track A) and from 16:00 to 19:00 CEST (Track B), with
breaks. It is expected that two modules will be covered in each session.
An online support forum will be open before, during, and for some time after the
canonical school dates to provide further guidance, to answer questions, and to
facilitate discussions between school students and tutors.
Due to our finite resources, we can only handle a finite number of students in
the live sessions, and hence we must limit the number of officially registered
participants. Nevertheless, the material and some forum channels will be
available at a later date also for those not officially admitted to the school.
The deadline for applications is the 4th June 2021. We will communicate our
acceptance decisions by the 11th June. Accepted participants will be given
access to the materials starting on the 21st June.
This school is organised in partnership with CECAM, and is also supported by the
MaX Centre of Excellence [3].
With kind regards, the organisers.
[1] José M Soler, Emilio Artacho, Julian D Gale, Alberto García, Javier
Junquera, Pablo Ordejón, Daniel Sánchez-Portal: "The SIESTA method for ab initio
order-N materials simulation", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 14 (11),
2745-2779 (2002).
[2] Alberto García, Nick Papior, Arsalan Akhtar, Emilio Artacho, Volker Blum,
Emanuele Bosoni, Pedro Brandimarte, et al: "Siesta: Recent Developments and
Applications", Journal of Chemical Physics 152 (20), 204108 (2020).
[3] MAterials design at the eXascale, http://www.max-centre.eu .
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Dr. José María Escartín Esteban
Senior SIESTA Developer
Theory and Simulation Group
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2)
ICN2 building, UAB Campus, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès),
08193 Barcelona, Spain
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SIESTA is supported by the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and by the European
H2020 MaX Centre of Excellence (http://www.max-centre.eu/)