SIESTA School 2024

Course/Event Essentials

Event/Course Start
Event/Course End
Event/Course Format
Online
Live (synchronous)
Primary Event/Course URL
https://siesta-project.org/siesta/event…

Venue Information

Country: Spain
Venue Details: Click here

Training Content and Scope

Scientific Domain
Fundamental physics
Technical Domain
General HPC systems and architectures
Level of Instruction
Beginner
Intermediate
Sector of the Target Audience
Research and Academia
HPC Profile of Target Audience
Application Users
Application Developers
Language of Instruction
English

Other Information

Organiser
ICN2 - Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC)
CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
MaX
Supporting Project(s)
MaX
Event/Course Description

The school is aimed at students and researchers from different disciplines who already use, or plan to use, first-principles techniques to simulate properties of matter at the atomic scale. In particular, the school will focus on the SIESTA method [1,2]. Participants will learn its essential theoretical foundations, and how to use the SIESTA code effectively. Pre- and post-processing tools will also be presented.

Format

The School will consist of lectures from senior SIESTA developers and hands-on sessions where SIESTA experts will be available for discussion and guidance. These sessions will take place between 12:30 CET and 17:30 CET.

Autonomous work on the exercises will be possible throughout the day.

Course materials

The school will make extensive use of the Siesta Project Documentation site, which is continuously updated with new tutorials.

The hands-on sessions will involve remotely executing pre-compiled versions of SIESTA on HPC systems located at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Indications on how to connect to BSC will be provided to accepted participants well in advance in order to ensure that they can install any tools they may require on their local computers.

Registration

Persons interested in registering for the School need to apply through the following link: SIESTA School 2024 Registration Form.

The deadline for applications is the 31th October 2024.

We will review applications in stages and we will communicate all our acceptance decisions by email by the 1st November.

Organisers

  • Catalina Coll (ICN2)
  • José Mª Escartín (ICN2)
  • Roberta Farris (ICN2)
  • Julio Gutiérrez (BSC)
  • Federico Pedron (ICN2)
  • Miguel Pruneda (CSIC and ICN2)

Contact

Queries about the school should be addressed to school-2024@siesta-project.org.

Sponsors

This school is supported by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the MaX Centre of Excellence.

References

[1] José M Soler, Emilio Artacho, Julian D Gale, Alberto García, Javier Junquera, Pablo Ordejón, and Daniel Sánchez-Portal: “The SIESTA method for ab initio order-N materials simulation”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 14 (11), 2745-2779 (2002).

[2] Alberto García, Nick Papior, Arsalan Akhtar, Emilio Artacho, Volker Blum, Emanuele Bosoni, Pedro Brandimarte, et al: “Siesta: Recent Developments and Applications”, Journal of Chemical Physics 152 (20), 204108 (2020).