Dear PWSCF users,
Three things that may be of interest, arising from PWSCF's ability to interface with the CASINO quantum monte Carlo program (and therefore generate answers that are generally of much higher accuracy than with DFT): (1) Due to some last minute cancellations, some places have opened up at our QMC summer school, to be held in our ancient monastery in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany, Italy this August. Here you may learn how to do QMC calculations off the back of PWSCF (amongst other things) in an intensive course taught by the authors of CASINO (from Cambridge and Lancaster Universities). You will also interact with many like-minded individuals in a convivial atmosphere, and enjoy mountain walking and other activities in one of the most beautiful places in Italy. See the website here: http://www.vallico.net/tti/qmcatcp_13/ (2) In the week preceding the summer school, there will be a conference "Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps" at the same venue which also has a few spaces available. This year's event has a special theme - the 'relationship between QMC and density functional theory', so PWSCF users will be especially welcome. See: http://www.vallico.net/tti/qmcitaa_13/ Please do contact me if you wish to attend either of these events. (3) Last week, we opened up a new website called 'The Casino Forum' - a discussion forum for quantum monte Carlo, CASINO, computational electronic structure theory, and related issues. You can find it at: http://www.vallico.net/casino-forum The forum is readable by anyone, but if you wish to make your own posts (and don't want to sell people Viagra or cheap shoes), please read 'How to use these forums' in the General Announcements section, then press 'Register' using the button at the top right. We respectfully request that you register with your real name. Enjoy! Best wishes, Mike +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Dr. Mike Towler (mdt26 at cam.ac.uk) Theory of Condensed Matter (Rm 513)| | Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK | |Tel. +44-(0)1223-746644 OR -334256 (College) Fax. +44-(0)1223-337356| +----------------------: www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mdt26 :------------------+
