Lausanne (Switzerland), 2025, 25-28 August The 7th general conference for the worldwide Psi-k community is the largest worldwide in first-principles simulations and will be held at the SwissTech Convention Center,…
PSI-K 2025 Conference
Physics Without Frontiers Workshop for APhRICA
Nairobi (Kenya), 2025, 7-11 July The first two-week intensive workshop taking place in the framework of the APhRICA program has began. The theme is: "Methodological School on Density Functional Theory".…
Many-Body Perturbation Theory and Excited-State Simulations
Modena (Italy), 2025, 19-23 May This school was designed for researchers interested in advanced computational methods for studying light- matter interactions, crucial for optoelectronic devices, quantum computing, and energy applications.Participants…
QMII course at ICTP-EAIFR
Kigali (Rwanda), 2025, 7-18 April The advanced topics course of Quantum Mechanics was held at the ICTP-EAIFR in Kigali. The 16 students admitted to the course came from UR (University…
From semi–classical swings to tad–poles: the Electron–Phononproblem as the devil in the details of Many–Body Theory
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…
22nd International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods
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…
APhRICA Launch
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,…
Advanced Physics tRainIng in afriCA
The first advanced physics course held by the international group of researchers participating in the APhRICA initiative has started on 2024, December 9th. The QM1 (Quantum Mechanics 1) course…
Yambo developers meeting 2024
Modena (Italia), 2024, 26-28 November The 2024 intensive two-day Yambo developers’ meeting was hosted at Università di Modena, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche, and online: main developers met young ones…
SLAFES XXV
Barranquilla (Colombia), 2024, 21-26 October The ICTP meeting included a two-and-a-half-day hands-on workshop along with participation in the XXV Latin American Symposium on Solid State Physics (SLAFES). The event aimed…
TOP 2% SCIENTISTS
The 2024 World's most influent researchers ranking As the previous editions, starting from 2020, also this year Elsevier Publisher been made known the publicly available database of top-cited scientists that…
Latin American Symposium on Solid State Physics
Barranquilla (Colombia), 2024, 21-26 October The XXV Latin American Symposium on Solid State Physics (SLAFES) from October 23 to 26, 2024, at Universidad del Atlántico, Sede Norte, Puerto Colombia was…
ETSF Electron-phonon collaboration team workshop
UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 2024, 23-25 September Collaboration Teams (CT) are small groups of researchers sharing their understanding of challenging topics, more particularly discussing the problems they are working on. This…
PHYSHPC 2024 – Workshop in High-Performance Computing in Physics
Madrid (Spain), 2024, 27 August Simulations of out–of–equilibrium phenomena using the Yambo project: this is the title of the keynote talk held by Andrea Marini at the PHYSHPC 2024 (August…
Non-adiabatic effects lead to the breakdown of the semi-classical phonon picture
"Despite the fact that the phonon concept is one of the most widely used, studied, reviewed concepts in modern condensed matter, some, even basic, properties are still debated. In this…