VASP
From: Prof. Jürgen Hafner [
]
Sent: 20 August 2002 11:21
To: Volker Heine; 
Subject: Re: proposals for workshop 2003
Dear Volker, dear friends,
For this year, the Ψk management had granted financial support for a 'hands-on' training course on VASP. Unfortunately, we have to delay the course until february next year. The reasons are the availability of a sufficient number of work-places on one side, and pending work on a GUI for VASP. We had planned to hold the workshop with the present version of the code, but we now prefer to shift it until the GUI will be available. The reason is that people accustomed to run DFT calculations don't really need a training course as VASP is easy to use. Hence the participants will be mostly newcomers, and for them a GUI will be a great help.
I hope that the Ψk management will accept the change of date. This would also make it easier to finance Xavier's worksop this year, and we do not plan another workshop in 2003.
Best regards,
Juergen
Volker Heine wrote:
> to new Ψk committee
>
> dear all [especially WORKING GROUP spokespersons]
>
> we hope to have some money next year, but NO proposals for workshops have
> been received so far!
>
> would you like to consider good topics for your subject area? it is not
> necessary to organise the workshop yourself, but to stimulate one or two
> reliable and sensible younger people and then to help them with
> suggestions and contacts.
>
> WE HAVE EXTENDED THE DEADLINE TO 15.SEPTEMBER, which is the same as for
> CECAM.
>
> please see the detailed instructions in the June Ψk Newsletter,
noting
> in particular
> (a) it must be submitted as a simple email file like this one, i think
> called an ASCII file, NOT latex or any kind of attachment.
> (b) the suggestion about how to pay for some American participants
> (c) the advantage of joint application to Ψk and Cecam.
>
> i have been preaching to ESF and now to EU how important workshops and
> networking in general are to our community, and it would be rather funny
> if there weren't any proposals!! have i been over-reaching myself? got
> out of contact with the community?
>
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>
> i remind you of the first committee meeting for the new Ψk
programme
> in Paris all day on saturday 12.october. as well as considering the
> workshop proposals, the main business will be [i] how the new Working
> Groups plan to get going, and [ii] the plans for an EU Integrated
> Infrastructure Initiative that would give a bigger and longer term thing.
>
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>
> as regards the funding for the new ESF Ψk Programme, replies
and offers
> from the national research councils are expected to come in mostly during
> September. i will contact ESF then, and find out if there are some that
> are not responding positively: if so, then i will let the national
> representative among you know.
>
> with best wishes, also for summer vacation, yours volker
>
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