APS 2026 Short Course¶

APS Global Physics Summit Denver, Sunday 15 March 2026

Tutorial notebooks¶

To access MATCSSI and Vista at TACC, please follow these steps:

All Jupyter notebooks used during the hands-on sessions can be downloaded automatically by running the following notebook directly on MATCSSI:

Alternatively, individual notebooks can be downloaded manually from the links in the hands-on sessions below.

08:00–08:30 — Lecture 1: Course overview and foundational concepts (F. Giustino) | video
08:30–09:10 — Lecture 2: Carrier transport in bulk and 2D materials (S. Poncé) | video
09:10–09:50 — Lecture 3: Superconductors and Migdal-Eliashberg theory (R. Margine) | video
10:20–11:00 — Lecture 4: Beyond the harmonic approximation (M. Zacharias) | video
11:00–11:40 — Lecture 5: Introduction to polarons (F. Giustino) | video
11:40–12:20 — Lecture 6: Ultrafast dynamics of electrons and phonons (F. Caruso) | video

13:20–14:00 — Lecture 7: Introduction to EPWpy and MATCSSI (S. Tiwari) | video
14:00–14:15 — Lecture 8: Introduction to tutorials (S. Tiwari)
14:15–15:30 — Hands-on session 1: Setup, transport, and superconductivity (All instructors)
15:30–15:45 — Coffee break
15:45–17:30 — Hands-on session 2: Polarons and special displacements (All instructors)
- Jupyter notebook: Polarons
- Jupyter notebook: Anharmonicity

POSCAR file used in the exercises:

Google Colab version of the notebooks, in case of problems with access to Vista:

Transport notebook

Superconductivity notebook

Polaron notebook

Anharmonicity notebook

All notebooks used in this course can also be found on GitLab: