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Ψ_k Workshops & Hands-On Courses

Information for Workshop Organisers

All workshop organisers should read this important information about submitting workshop proposals and claiming financial support if your workshop is awarded funding. The information section also includes templates for the reports that are required once your workshop is complete... Practical information for workshop organisers.

Upcoming events

Download a copy of the 2012 Psi-k Workshops Poster from here.

• Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory: Strong Correlations from First Principles, 25-30 March, Berlin, Germany
• Psi-k/CECAM Research Conference, 6-10 May, Cranage Hall, UK
• Atomic Structure of Nanosystems from First-Principles Simulations and Microscopy Experiments (AS-SIMEX 2012), 15-17 May, Baltic Sea
• ETSF Young Researchers' Meeting 2012 : Revolutions in ab initio, Closing the Circle Between Theory and Experiment, 21-25 May, Brussels, Belgium
• Quantum Transport in Molecular Nanostructures, 22-25 May, Dublin, Ireland
• 2nd TYC Conference: Charge Transfer for Energy Applications, 6-8 June, London, UK
• What about U? – Corrective Approaches to DFT for Strongly-Correlated Systems, 18-21 June, CECAM Lausanne, Switzerland
• Efficient Localised Orbitals for Large Systems, Strong Correlations and Excitations, 2-5 July, Cambridge, UK
• International Symposium and Workshop on Electron Correlations and Materials Properties of Alloys and Compounds, 9-13 July, Porto Heli, Greece
• Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps VII / Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO program VII, 28 July - 12 August, Vallico Sotto, Italy
• HoW exciting! Hands-on Workshop on Excitations in Solids 2012, 2-8 August, Berlin, Germany
• The 2012 CAMD Summer School on Electronic Structure Theory and Materials Design, 11-17 August, Lyngby, Denmark
• Density Functional Theory and Beyond with Numeric Atom-Centered Orbitals, 28-31 August, Berlin, Germany
• Graphene: From Band Structure to Many-Body Physics, 3-7 September, Bremen, Germany
• Machine Learning Techniques for Atomistic Simulations, 10-12 September, Lugano, Switzerland
• Energy from the Sun: Computational Chemists and Physicists Take up the Challenge, 10-14 September, Sardinia, Italy
• 2012 EMRS Fall Meeting Symposium I, 17-20 September, Warsaw, Poland
• Summer School: Bandstructure Meets Many Body Theory, 18-22 September, Vienna, Austria
• Functional Molecules on Surfaces: New Building Blocks for Nano-Spintronics, 2-4 October, Bonn, Germany
• 17th ETSF Workshop on Electronic Excitations: Advanced Green Function Methods, 2-5 October, Coimbra, Portugal
• Future Challenges in CO2 Reduction, 8-12 October, Bremen, Germany
• Towards First-Principles Description of van der Waals Interactions in Complex Materials, 15-19 October, CECAM Lausanne, Switzerland
• Vibrational Coupling: Most Important, Often Ignored, and a Challenge for ab initio Theory, 6-9 November, CECAM Lausanne, Switzerland
• International Workshop on “Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods”, 10-12 January 2013, Trieste, Italy
• Molecular electronics: Quo vadis?, 11-15 March 2013, Bremen, Germany
• European Workshop on Hybrid nano-materials: from Synthesis to Applications

Reports from 2011 events

• Muffin-Tin Recipes - Hands-on Workshop on Electronic Structure Calculations with the FLEUR Code, 7-11 February, Juelich, Germany
• 2nd CP2K Tutorial: Enabling the Power of Imagination in MD Simulations, 9-13 February, Zurich, Switzerland [REPORT]
• Symposium "Theory and Computation of Electronic Structure: New Frontiers" at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Physikalisches Gemeinschaft (Spring Meeting), 13-18 March, Dresden, Germany
• 5th International ABINIT Developer Workshop, 11-14 April, Han-sur-lesse, Belgium
• Psi-k Research Conference: Cat1P, 22-26 May, Magleas, Denmark [REPORT]
• Challenges and Solutions in GW Calculations for Complex Systems, 7-10 June, Lausanne, Switzerland [REPORT]
• Workshop on KKR and Related Greens Function Methods, 8-10 July, MPI Halle, Germany [REPORT]
• X-ray Spectroscopy: Recent Advances in Modelling and New Challenges, 10-13 July, Zurich, Switzerland [REPORT]
• Psi-k/CECAM/CCP9 Biennial Graduate School in Electronic-Structure Methods, 10-15 July, Oxford, UK [REPORT]
• Hands-On Tutorial: Density Functional Theory and Beyond, Concepts and Applications, 12-21 July, Berlin, Germany [REPORT]
• Charge Transfer in Biosystems, 17-22 July, Obergurgl, Austria [REPORT]
• Strong Correlation from First Principles, 30 August - 2 September, Oberbayen, Germany [REPORT]
• CPMD2011: Extending the Limits of ab-initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Materials Science and Biophysics, 5-9 September, Barcelona, Spain [REPORT]
• Superconductivity 100 Years Later: a Computational Approach, 15-18 September, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy [REPORT]
• Self-Interaction Correction: State of the Art and New Directions, 19-21 September, Daresbury, UK [REPORT]
• Perspectives and Challenges of Many-Particle Methods: Efficient Strategies and Tools for Describing Complex Systems, 19-23 September, Bremen, Germany [REPORT]
• 16th ETSF Workshop on Electronic Excitations: Bridging Theory and Experiment, 26 September-1 October, Turin, Italy [REPORT]
• Photo-Meets Electrocatalysis: United We Split (…Water), 4-7 October, Bremen, Germany [REPORT]
• Perspectives and Challenges of Simulations at Bio-Materials Interfaces, 10-14 October, Bremen, Germany[REPORT]
• Dynamical Properties of Earth and Planetary Materials, 10-14 October, Lausanne, Switzerland [REPORT]
• 5th School & Workshop on “Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and Applications”, 4-18 January 2012, Benasque, Spain [REPORT]
• Topological Insulators and Non-Perturbative Spin-Orbit Coupling, 9-11 January 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland [REPORT]
• Computational Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science from First Principles, 12-14 January 2012, Barcelona, Spain
• Towards Reality in Nanoscale Materials: Interfaces, 20-22 February 2012, Levi, Finland

Future workshops

Members who wish to submit a workshop proposal may do so via the Ψ_k Portal.

Past events

Ψ_k Conference

• Conference 2010 - Berlin, Germany, September 12 - 16, 2010
• Conference 2005 - Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, September 17 - 21, 2005
• Conference 2000 - Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, August 22 - 26, 2000
• Conference 1996 - Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, September 17 - 21, 1996