This school will be the third event of a series that started in 2018 with the First International School on Electron-Phonon Physics from First Principles (International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste), and continued with a virtual event in 2022, the Virtual School on Electron-Phonon Physics and the EPW Code.
The aim of this school is to train graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty members, and research scientists in modern approaches to the physics of electron-phonon interactions, from the point of view of predictive ab initio calculations for real materials.
The interaction between electrons and phonons is responsible for the temperature dependence of many electronic and optical properties of solids, and plays a important role in technologically important phenomena, from charge and heat transport to superconductivity and light-driven phase transitions. As research in computational materials science and data-driven materials discovery continues to grow in size and scope, there is an increasing need for advanced conceptual and computational tools to study functional properties with predictive accuracy. In this context, calculations of electron-phonon interactions and related materials properties are becoming more widely adopted in materials design and discovery.
This school will introduce participants to advanced ab initio calculations of electron-phonon physics and related materials properties, including lectures on many-body quantum theory, software implementations, and hands-on training sessions. Practice sessions will primarily focus on the EPW code, and additionally include tutorials on Quantum Espresso, Wannier90, and BerkeleyGW. Lectures and tutorials will be held from Monday 13 to Friday 17. The weekend of Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 will host a hackathon event for those interested in becoming familiar with the architecture of the codes. A poster session will be held on the evening of Thursday 16. Training sessions will be held on the supercomputers of the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
The current plan is to hold the school in person at the University of Texas, Austin. If the current pandemic deteriorates, we will evaluate whether the school will have to be converted into a virtual format, similar to the the previous event in 2021.
The school is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation(NSF), Division of Materials Research (DMR) and Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), under awards 2007638 and 2103991, by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES) under Award DE-SC0020129, and by the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Support from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (reservation of Frontera nodes & technical assistance) is gratefully acknowledged.
