The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, jointly with the Indian Institute of  Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune is organizing a Summer School on Materials  Simulations Theory And Numerics to be held in Pune, India from 30 June to 12 July 2014.
In the proposed school we plan to cover ground state density functional theory (OFT) as well as  advanced techniques. OFT has become an important tool in the area of materials research, to  understand properties of materials, to complement/understand experimental results, and design new materials. 
 

The school is divided into two weeks. The first week is intended for all participants, and will cover the following topics: 

 Basics of ground state OFT and Kohn-Sham equations 

 Pseudopotentials 

 Structural optimization 

 Hybrid functionals 

 Spin polarization including non-collinear magnetism and spin-orbit interactions 

 DFT+U 

 Ab initio molecular dynamics 

The second week of the school will be restricted to participants with considerable prior experience with OFT calculations, and will cover the following topics: 
 

 Density functional perturbation (DFPT) theory 

 Time dependent OFT 

 GW approximation 

 Berry phase and modern theory of polarization 

 Computational Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy 

 Efficient use of HPC and Parallelization 

The morning sessions of the school will consist of lectures on the basic principles and methodologies followed by research talks (covering experimental and theoretical aspects) showing their applications. The afternoon sessions will consist of hands-on tutorials where the participants will do simple calculations using the Quantum ESPRESSO distribution