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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.
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.
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 the execution of software, including pre-compiled versions of SIESTA, on users’ computers. Indications on how to install the required software with conda will be provided to accepted participants well in advance.
Persons interested in registering for the School need to apply through the “Participate” tab of the CECAM school web page.
Please make sure that your CECAM account is up to date and uses your current email address.
The deadline for applications is the 17th October 2025.
We will review applications in stages and we will communicate all our acceptance decisions by email by the 24th October 2025. The names of all the accepted participants will appear on the participants tab of the CECAM website.
Queries about the school should be addressed to school-2025@siesta-project.org.
This school is supported by the MaX Centre of Excellence and the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
[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).