The “Total Energy” is a renowned workshop about recent progress in electronic structure methods and their applications. It has been held traditionally in Trieste every two years since the 80s and become one of the most popular regular events of the international ab initio electronic structure community.

 

The goal of the workshop is to provide a broad view of recent developments, current challenges, and future directions of the field.

 

The program features invited talks and focused sessions on

 

- novel energy functionals

- machine learning: theory and applications

- correlated materials and excited states

- electron-phonon coupling

- materials design and discovery

- quantum computing: applications and materials platform

- time-dependent and out-of-equilibrium phenomena

- electronic structure grand challenges in the age of AI and quantum computing (discussion session)

 

The workshop will also include the Award ceremony for the "Walter Kohn prize for quantum mechanical material modeling" (https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/walter-kohn-prize.aspx), co-funded by ICTP and the Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation.

Raffaello Bianco, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Giuseppe Carleo, EPFL, Switzerland

Gábor Csányi, University of Cambridge, UK

Maria Chatzieleftheriou, Ecole Polytechnique, France

Nicola Colonna, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Tommaso Chiarotti, Caltech, USA

Giulia Galli, University of Chicago, USA

Vikram Gavini, University of Michigan, USA

Leeor Kronik, Weizman Institute, Israel

Roxane Margine, Binghamton University, USA

Nisanth Nair, IIT Kanpur, India

Mariana Rossi, Max Planck Hamburg, Germany

Maria Clelia Righi, University of Bologna, Italy,

Gianluca Stefanucci, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Massimiliano Stengel, ICREA, Spain

QuanSheng Wu, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Claudio Zeni, Microsoft Research AI4Science, UK

Abstract: The workshop will also include poster sessions, while a limited number of contributed abstracts will be selected for upgrade to invited presentations. To prepare your abstract, please use the ICTP templates that are available below for download.