MSSC2010 School Programme

REGISTRATION

Monday 13th

8:30 - 8:50

Lecture Theatre C - Chemistry RCS

10:50 - 11:10

Lecture Theatre C - Chemistry RCS



MORNING SESSIONS : Lecture Theatre C - Chemistry RCS

Coffee Break : Lecture Theatre C - Chemistry RCS (corridor)

 

Monday 13th

Tuesday 14th

Wednesday 15th

Thursday 16th

Friday 17th

9:00 - 9:55

Translation symmetry, Space groups, Bloch functions, Fermi energy

R. Orlando

Total energy calculation and SCF convergence tools

N. M. Harrison

Local defects in crystalline materials

G. Mallia

CRYSTAL in parallel: replicated and distributed (MPP) data

I. J. Bush

Localized crystalline orbitals and related quantities

L. Bernasconi

9:55 - 10:50

Hamiltonians and basis sets

N. M. Harrison

Geometry optimisation of solids

C. Bailey

From bulk to surface. Relaxation and reconstruction.

B. Montanari

The effect of pressure: equations of state; bulk modulus; elastic constants

M. Alfredsson

Post-HF techniques and the CRYSCOR project

S. Casassa

 

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

11:10 - 12:05

The structure of the CRYSTAL code

G. Mallia

One-electron properties

F. Corà

Vibrational frequencies and polarisabilities calculation.

R. Orlando

Dielectric properties. CPHF/CPKS

L. Bernasconi

Quantum transport in nanojunctions

A. Ferretti

12:05 - 12:55

CRYSTAL input/output. Basic features. Scripts

G. Mallia

Spin polarized solutions. Spin densities and related quantities

R. Orlando

Ab initio Thermodynamics

L. M. Liborio

TD-DFT

L. Bernasconi

Questions from users.




AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Basic tutorials : Room 311 - Biochemistry Building

 

Monday 13th

Tuesday 14th

Wednesday 15th

Thursday 16th

Friday 17th

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

 

Break

Break

 

Break

Break

16:45 - 18:30

Basis set input & basis set editing

Geometry optimisation

16:00 ...

Self-guided Tour

One-electron properties

Basic modelling of defects


Advanced tutorials : Room 310 - Biochemistry Building

 

Monday 13th

Tuesday 14th

Wednesday 15th

Thursday 16th

Friday 17th

14:30 - 16:15

Magnetic properties

Advanced options in geometry optimisation and frequencies calculation

13:00 - 15:45
Lunch
&
Poster Session

Dielectric properties

CRYSCOR

 

Break

Break

 

Break

Break

16:45 - 18:30

Magnetic properties

NEB

16:00 ...

Self-guided Tour

Dielectric properties

CRYSCOR

 

EVENING

 

Monday 13th

Tuesday 14th

Wednesday 15th

Thursday 16th

Friday 17th

 

 

 

20:00

Social Dinner