Summer School 2026¶
2026 School on Electron-Phonon Physics and Many-body Perturbation Theory¶
15-21 June 2026, Trieste, Italy
More information can be found here and here.
Frontera and Vista cheat sheet.
Monday¶
Lecture 1:
Intro to electron-phonon physics and school topics| videoLecture 2:
Density functional perturbation theory| videoLecture 3:
Wannier functions| videoHands-On tutorial 1:
Quantum ESPRESSO + GPU|Tutorial FilesIntro to Hands-On tutorial 2:
Wannier interpolation of band structuresHands-On tutorial 2:
Wannier interpolation of band structures|Tutorial Files
Tuesday¶
Lecture 1:
Many-body theory of electron-phonon interactions| videoLecture 2:
Machine learning for atomistic modeling| videoLecture 3:
Special displacement method| videoIntro to Hands-On tutorial 1:
Interpolation of electron-phonon matrix elementsHands-On tutorial 1:
Interpolation of electron-phonon matrix elements|Tutorial FilesIntro to Hands-On tutorial 2:
Machine learning potentialsHands-On tutorial 2:
Machine learning potentials|Tutorial FilesIntro to Hands-On tutorial 3:
Special displacement methodHands-On tutorial 3:
Electron-phonon and anharmonic properties using the EPW/ZG code|Tutorial Files
Wednesday¶
Lecture 1:
Superconductors and Migdal-Eliashberg theory| videoLecture 2:
Introduction to polarons| videoIntro to Hands-On tutorial 1:
Superconductivity calculationsHands-On tutorial 1:
Superconductivity|Tutorial FilesIntro to Hands-On tutorial 2:
Self-trapped polarons with EPWHands-On tutorial 2:
Self-trapped polarons with EPW|Tutorial Files
Thursday¶
Lecture 1:
Spectral functions and WFPT| videoLecture 2:
Spectral functionals: Koopmans and beyond| videoLecture 3:
Phonon-assisted optical processes| videoIntro to Hands-On tutorial 1:
ARPES extractionHands-On tutorial 1:
ARPES extractionIntro to Hands-On tutorial 2:
Spectral functionsHands-On tutorial 2:
Electron and phonon spectral functions|Tutorial FilesIntro to Hands-On tutorial 3:
Indirect absorption and QDPTHands-On tutorial 3:
Optical absorption with EPW|Tutorial Files
Friday¶
Lecture 1:
Carrier transport| videoLecture 2:
Wigner transport| videoLecture 3:
Coupled electron and phonon transport| videoIntro to Hands-On tutorial 1:
2D/3D transport and LSDAHands-On tutorial 1:
Carrier transport, 2D/3D, and LSDA|Tutorial FilesHands-On tutorial 2:
Selc-consistent electron spectral functions and spectral transport|Tutorial FilesHands-On tutorial 3:
Coupled transport with Elphbolt|Tutorial Files
Saturday¶
Lecture 1:
GW and the Bethe-Salpeter equation| videoLecture 2:
GW perturbation theory| videoLecture 3:
Introduction to exciton polarons and self-trapped excitons| videoHands-On tutorial 1:
GWPT|Tutorial FilesIntro to Hands-On tutorial 2:
Exciton polarons with BerkeleyGW and EPWHands-On tutorial 2:
Exciton polarons|Tutorial Files
Sunday¶
Lecture 1:
Automation and abstraction using EPWpy| videoLecture 2:
GPU acceleration of EPW| videoLecture 3:
EPW-VASP interface| videoLecture 4:
Electron-phonon interactions beyond DFT with ElePhAny| videoHands-On tutorial 1:
Installing EPW with GPU acceleration on Vista at TACC|Tutorial FilesIntro to Hands-On tutorial 2:
Automation and abstraction using EPWpyHands-On tutorial 2:
EPWpy|Tutorial Files
Poster Awards¶
Winners of poster prize, in alphabetic order:
Nicolas Bau (University of Trieste)
First-principles real-space embedding theory of the superconducting proximity effectZimmi Singh (IIT kharagpur)
Spin-split phonon-limited carrier mobilities from electron-phonon coupling in 2D VX2(X = S, Se) bipolar magnetic semiconductorsElena Trukhan (Humboldt Uniersity Berlin)
Dragful magnetotransport in Elphbolt