MSSC2008 School Programme

REGISTRATION

Monday 15th

8:30 - 8:50

Lecture Theatre C - Chemistry RCS

10:50 - 11:10

Room 232 ( UG Common Room ) - Chemistry Building



MORNING SESSIONS : Lecture Theatre C - Chemistry RCS

Coffee Break : Room 232 ( UG Common Room ) – Chemistry Building

 

Monday 15th

Tuesday 16th

Wednesday 17th

Thursday 18th

Friday 19th

9:00 - 9:55

Translation symmetry, Space groups, Bloch functions, Fermi energy

R. Orlando

Geometry optimisation of solids

C. M. Zicovich

Vibrational frequencies calculation and tools for their analysis

R. Dovesi

The effect of pressure: equations of state; bulk modulus

M. Alfredsson

Local defects in crystalline materials

G. Mallia

9:55 - 10:50

Hamiltonians and basis sets

N. M. Harrison

One-electron properties

F. Corà

Ab initio Thermodynamics

L. M. Liborio

Elastic constants

W. Perger

Localized crystalline orbitals and related quantities

C. M. Zicovich

 

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

11:10 - 12:05

The structure of the CRYSTAL code

C. Roetti

Spin polarized solutions. Spin densities and related quantities

R. Orlando

From bulk to surface. Relaxation and reconstruction. Models and strategies

A. Wander

Dielectric properties. CPHF/CPKS

M. Ferrero

Post-HF techniques and the CRYSCOR project

S. Casassa

12:05 - 12:55

CRYSTAL input/output. Basic features

B. Civalleri

Total energy calculation and SCF convergence tools

N. M. Harrison

Models and strategies for metallic systems: bulk and surface

K. Doll

CRYSTAL in parallel: replicated and distributed (MPP) data

I. J. Bush

Quantum transport in nanojunctions

A. Ferretti



AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Basic tutorials : Room 135 – Chemistry Building

Coffee Break and Poster Session : Room 232 ( UG Common Room ) – Chemistry Building

 

Monday 15th

Tuesday 16th

Wednesday 17th

Thursday 18th

Friday 19th

14:30 - 16:15

Geometry input & geometry editing

Total energy (Single-point calculation)

13:00 - 15:45
Lunch
&
Poster Session

Vibrational frequencies

Basic modelling of surfaces and defects

 

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

 

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:30

Basis set input & basis set editing

Geometry optimisation

16:00 ...

Social Event

One-electron properties

Basic modelling of defects

Advanced tutorials : Room 232 A – Chemistry Building

Coffee Break and Poster Session : Room 232 ( UG Common Room ) – Chemistry Building

 

Monday 15th

Tuesday 16th

Wednesday 17th

Thursday 18th

Friday 19th

14:30 - 16:15

Magnetic properties

Advanced options in geometry optimisation and frequencies calculation

13:00 - 15:45
Lunch
&
Poster Session

Dielectric properties

CRYSCOR

 

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

 

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:30

Magnetic properties

Advanced options in geometry optimisation and frequencies calculation

16:00 ...

Social Event

Dielectric properties

CRYSCOR

 

SOCIAL EVENTS

 

Monday 15th

Tuesday 16th

Wednesday 17th

Thursday 18th

Friday 19th

 

 

 

20:00
Social Dinner