7th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications
Kigali (Rwanda), 2023, 12-23 June
The aim of the School was to introduce young African researchers to the theory of electronic structure and other atomistic simulation methods, with an emphasis on the computational methods for practical calculations.
The African School series on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications is planned on a biennial basis from 2010 to 2020. Previous schools were held in Cape Town, South Africa (2010), Eldoret, Kenya (2012), Johannesburg, South Africa (2015), Accra, Ghana (2016), ans Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2018). In 2021, ASESMA was held as an ICTP Virtual school.
The School also covered basic and advanced topics and applications of these methods to the structural, mechanical and optical properties of materials.
The School included hands-on tutorial sessions based on public license codes (including, but not limited to, the Quantum Espresso package).
Topics:
- Electronic structure theory
- Density functional theory and functionals
- Phonons
- Magnetism
- Molecular dynamics
- Ab-initio molecular dynamics
- Optical spectroscopies
- Machine learning and data science
