Walter Kohn Prize 2024 Announced

Rafael Gonzalez Hernandez was awarded for work on altermagnetism.

ICTP and the Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation have announced the awarding of their 2024 Walter Kohn Prize to Rafael Gonzalez Hernandez, a professor at the Universidad...

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Advanced Quantum ESPRESSO tutorial

Dear Quantum ESPRESSO community,

we are pleased to announce  the “Advanced Quantum ESPRESSO tutorial: Hubbard and Koopmans functionals from linear response”.

Dates: 9-11 November 2022

Format: Online

Registration fee: (free of charge)

Deadline for applications: 1 October 2022

Website of the event: https://sites.google.com/view/hubbard-koopmans

The first day of the tutorial will be devoted to an introduction to fundamental aspects of DFT using local and semi-local functionals, its application to materials science and physics, and its limitations. In the next 2 days, the tutorial will cover the theoretical framework of Hubbard and Koopmans functionals (the main topic of this event) and their applications to representative case studies

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