Many-Body physics at and out-of equilibrium

Munich (Germany), 2025, 30 January

Electrons and phonons are basic concepts, considered as the most elemental and well defined example of fermions and bosons. So it may appear that their formal properties are clear and well established. In reality, despite books and reviews the theory of electron-phonon interaction (EPI) is still very much debated. The reason is mostly historical. Indeed the state-of-the art theoretical and numerical approach to the EPI has been built on top of two popular methods: model Hamiltonians and Density Functional Perturbation Theory (DFPT).

In the seminar scheduled on Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 1:00 pm, at the Tecnische Universität München (TUM School of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry) Dr. Andrea Marini will, in particular, demonstrate that it is possible to derive an effective vertex correction function that can be easily defined using simple ingredients and used to amend calculations based on the statically screened approximation.

Trieste (Italia), 2025, 8-10 January

The “Total Energy”, organized by the ICTP, is a renowned workshop about recent progress in electronic structure methods and their applications. It has been held traditionally in Trieste every two years since the 80s and become one of the most popular regular events of the international ab initio electronic structure community.

The goal of the workshop was to provide a broad view of recent developments, current challenges, and future directions of the field.

The program featured invited talks and focused sessions on

– novel energy functionals

– machine learning: theory and applications

– correlated materials and excited states

– electron-phonon coupling

– materials design and discovery

– quantum computing: applications and materials platforms

– time-dependent and out-of-equilibrium phenomena

– electronic structure grand challenges in the age of AI and quantum computing (discussion session)

– semiconductors and ferroelectrics (in memory of Alfonso Baldereschi).

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Advanced Physics Training in Collaboration with Africa (APhRICA) Programme (part of the APhRICA initiative) has officially been launched at the Technical University of Kenya. The event was launched on December, 6th, by Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of Research and Technology Development (RTD), Prof. Isaac Orina, on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Benedict Mutua.

This marks the first time the project is being launched in Africa, whereby 10 students of Physics, pursuing Master’s and PhD from different Kenyan universities, will be trained for two years, at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics-East African Institute of Fundamental (ICTP-EAIFR) in Kigali, Rwanda. The students are primary participants in the programme. Out of the 10 students, three are from TU-K.

Prof. Orina thanked the sponsors and organisers of the event for bringing it to TU-K, saying that they worked hard to ensure the event was successful.

He congratulated the participants for having been selected competitively saying the training will give them requisite knowledge, skills, exposure and opportunity to interact with expertise from world over.

The event was reported in the News page of the TU-K and on the social media:

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