FHI-aims Developers' and Users' Meeting 2023

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE THEORY WITH NUMERIC ATOM-CENTERED BASIS FUNCTIONS

August 2 – August 4, 2023
In-person participation

at

Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL)
Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg

This workshop will explore advanced methods in electronic structure development that are based on localized, numeric atom-centered orbitals (NAOs). NAO-based modeling is widely considered to be one of the most powerful approaches to studying molecules and materials from a first principles perspective. To advance the state of the art in this area, the proposed meeting will bring together key players from the FHI-aims code and related European and international efforts. Participants will have the opportunity to share their insights, discuss emerging trends, and collaborate on new research initiatives.

Important Dates

April 15, 2023 Registration Opens
May 31, 2023 Registration Closes
Early June, 2023 Acceptance announcements
August 2, 2023 Start of the Conference
August 4, 2023 End of the Conference

Scope

The workshop will cover three days and 20 invited talks, as well as a poster session. Time will be reserved in the afternoons for “Hands-On Discussions”, providing dedicated time for the participants to split up into small groups to focus on topics of specific interest ranging from methodological improvements all the way to code development questions related to specific subgroups of participants and joint programming sessions. Participants are also able to present their own work during the Postersession.

Topics covered are new developments in electronic structure theory with numeric atom-centered orbitals - including, but not limited to:

  • Numerical algorithms and new methods for NAOs
  • Technical advances in and scalability of electronic structure methods
  • External libraries interfacing with FHI-aims
  • Recent developments in advanced electronic properties

Program

Program in PDF format (including Poster abstracts) for download

Wed, August 2, 2023
13:00 13:15 Registration  
13:15 13:30 Welcome Mariana Rossi
13:30 14:00 FHI-aims overview and GIMS Volker Blum / Andrey Sobolev
14:00 14:30 Current status of Hybrid Density Functionals and ELPA Florian Merz
14:30 15:00 Coffee Break  
15:00 15:30 Modelling Core Level X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy using the Δ-Self-Consistent-Field Approach Juhan Matthias Kahk
15:30 16:00 Real-time Nuclear-Electron Orbital Time-dependent DFT Yosuke Kanai
16:00 16:15 Break  
16:15 17:30 Hands-on Discussions 1  
17:30 18:00 Hands-on Discussions Summary 1  
18:00 18:30 Break  
18:30 20:30 Poster Session  
       
Thu, August 3, 2023
09:00 09:30 Intricacies of DFT+U, not only in a numeric atom centered orbital framework Matthias Kick
09:30 10:00 The exchange-hole dipole moment (XDM) dispersion model implementation in FHI-aims Alberto Otera de la Roza
10:00 10:30 Coffee Break  
10:30 11:00 Overview GW: Status of the library GreenX Dorothea Golze
11:00 11:30 Coupled Clusters for Solids Evgeny Moerman
11:30 12:00 Basis-set-error free RPA correlations for atoms and diatomic molecules based on the Sternheimer equation Xinguo Ren
12:00 13:30 Lunch Break  
13:30 14:00 Periodic BSE Ruiyi Zhou
14:00 14:30 Machine Learning for the Electronic Structure Alan Lewis
14:30 15:00 Coffee Break  
15:00 15:30 ASE: Current Status and Future Changes Thomas Purcell
15:30 16:00 Atomic Simulation Interface (ASI) Pavel Stishenko
16:00 16:15 Break  
16:15 17:30 Hands-on Discussions 2  
17:30 18:00 Hands-on Discussions Summary 2  
       
Fri, August 4, 2023
09:00 09:30 Simulation of Tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Yair Litman
09:30 10:00 Small Basis Set DFT Elisabeth Keller
10:00 10:30 Coffee Break  
10:30 11:00 Interpreting Ultrafast Electron Transfer on Surfaces with a Converged First-Principles Newns-Anderson Chemisorption Function Simiam Ghan
11:00 11:30 Electronic Transport Christian Carbogno
11:30 12:00 Current Status of DFPT Connor Box
12:00 13:30 Lunch Break  
13:30 14:00 Active machine learning workflows for nonadiabatic dynamics at surfaces Wojciech Stark
14:00 14:30 Solvation Models Jakob Filser
14:30 15:00 Improving the Description of Molecular Crystals via Multimer Embedding Alexander List
15:00 15:30 Coffee Break and Final Discussions  

 

Organized by

Mariana Rossi 
Lise Meitner Group "SAbIA"
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Hamburg, Germany

Volker Blum
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708, USA

Uthpala Herath
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708, USA

Sebastian Kokott
Molecular Simulations from First Principles e.V.
Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany

Konstantin Mok Lion
Molecular Simulations from First Principles e.V.
Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany

Ville Havu
Department of Applied Physics
Aalto University
FI-00076, AALTO, Finland

Patrick Rinke
Department of Applied Physics
Aalto University
FI-00076, AALTO, Finland

Christian Carbogno
Theory Department
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany

Matthias Scheffler
NOMAD Laboratory
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany