Hi Pietro ... I would suggest you to take a llok on the CECAM web site ... there are a plenty of work shops on computational atomic and molecular sciences organized by CECAM and I'm sure you would appreciate that!
http://www.cecam.org/ Cheers NH On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:19 PM, pietro bonfa <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear SIESTA community, > > hi everybody, I'm a new siesta user and I'm finishing my graduate > studies in physics at the university of Pavia. During these Christmas > holidays I've been playing with SIESTA to study from first principles, > band structure and DOS of a superconducting compound I'm working on > for my thesis research. Of course I couldn't get any reliable result, > but I realized I really like this kind of studies. I read about DFT on > books, then I went through various siesta presentation but, while DFT > theory is quite clear to me, I couldn't grab that much on how to > practically use siesta to face a real problem. > > So what I'm asking you is where and how could I delve deeper into this > kind of studies! Is there a summer school scheduled for next year? Are > there any places where I could get deeper into this topic in Italy or > abroad? As far as I know no one is working DFT simulations in my > physics department. > > Thanks for your attention, > best wishes for the new year, > > Pietro Bonfa' >
