Summer School 2022

2022 School on Electron-Phonon Physics from First Principles

13-19 June 2022, Austin, TX

More information can be found here.

Monday

• Introductory remarks and logistics

• Lecture 1: Elementary intro to electron-phonon couplings | video

• Lecture 2: Density functional perturbation theory | video

• Lecture 3: Maximally localized Wannier functions: theory, and some applications | video

• Hands-On tutorial: Intro Slides | Quantum Espresso | –> Tutorial Files

Tuesday

• Lecture 1: The Wannier functions ecosystem: fundamentals and recent developments | video

• Lecture 2: Many-body theory of electron-phonon interactions | video

• Hands-On tutorial 1: Intro Slides | Interpolation of band structures | –> Tutorial Files

• Hands-On tutorial 2: Supplemental Slides | Interpolation of electron-phonon matrix elements

• DEI Workshop: Social identity groups | Microaggressions in STEM

Wednesday

• Lecture 1: Carrier transport | video

• Lecture 2: Superconductivity | video

• Lecture 3: Phonon-assisted optical absorption | video

• Hands-On tutorial 1: Intro Slides | Calculations of mobility | –> Tutorial Files

• Hands-On tutorial 2: Intro Slides Calculations of superconducting Tc | –> Tutorial Files

Thursday

• Lecture 1: Theory of polarons | video

• Lecture 2: High Performance Computing at TACC and beyond | video

• Hands-On tutorial 1: Phonon-assisted absorption | –> Tutorial Files

• Hands-On tutorial 2: Intro slides | Polarons | –> Tutorial Files

Friday

• Lecture 1: Special displacement method | video

• Lecture 2: GW/BSE theory | video

• Lecture 3: BerkeleyGW | video

• Hand-On tutorial 1: Intro Slides | Special displacement method | –> Tutorial Files

• Hand-On tutorial 2: Intro Slides | | BerkeleyGW | –> Tutorial Files