That's great! Thank you for the advice! Cheers Pietro
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:36 PM, N H <[email protected]> wrote: > 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' > >
