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WIEN2007

WIEN2k Workshop

June 11-14, 2007

The Pennsylvania State University
316 Hammond Building
State College, Pennsylvania

Organized by the Materials Simulation Center

A Facility of the Materials Research Institute



Workshop Program

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Day I: Monday, June 11

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. [pdf]

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-12:00

P.Blaha (TU Wien): An overview of the new WIEN2k package. [pdf]

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: Tuesday, June 12

9:00-9:30

K. Schwarz (TU Wien): Magnetism (FM, FSM, AFM). [pdf]

9:30-10:00

K. Jorissen (U. Washington): Core-level spectra (XSPEC, ELNES). [pdf]

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-12:00

Exercise III: Spectra (xspec and elnes). [Handout]

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

G. K. H. Madsen (U. Aarhus): Relativistic effects, LDA+U. [pdf]

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: Wednesday, June 13

9:00-10:00

C. Ambrosch-Draxl (U.Leoben): Optical properties of solids with the WIEN2k package. [pdf]

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:00

G. K. H. Madsen (U. Aarhus): Transport coefficients. [pdf]

11:00-12:00

Exercise V: Optic.

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

L. D. Marks (Northwestern U.): Surfaces: What theory teaches experiments and experiments teach theory. [pdf]

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: Thursday, June 14

9:00-10:00

Andres Saul (CRMCN, Marseille, France): Calculation of surface energies and surface stresses. [pdf]

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:15

P. Blaha (TU Wien): Installation of WIEN2k, parallelization, grid computing.

11:15-12:00

Kevin Jorissen (U. Washington): Ab initio EELS: calculations using WIEN2k+TELNES2, and how to work around some common problems.[pdf]

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.

15:00-16:00

Round table: General discussion on WIEN2k.
C. Ambrosch-Draxl, P. Blaha, K. Jorissen, G. K. H. Madsen, L. Marks, K. Schwarz, and J. Sofo