CCL: APS March Meeting: Tutorial on "Electron Phonon Interactions"

 Sent to CCL by: "Andre  Schleife" [schleife###illinois.edu]
 Hello everyone,
 Before you finalize booking your trip to the APS March Meeting in New
 Orleans, we would like to bring the tutorial on "Electron Phonon
 Interactions", organized by Emmanouil Kioupakis and myself, to your
 attention:
 https://www.aps.org/meetings/march/events/tutorials.cfm#t2
 This tutorial is scheduled for Sunday, March 12, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m,
 and it aims at graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists
 interested in learning about first-principles numerical techniques to
 describe electron-phonon interactions.
 Recent advances in the theoretical description and computational
 methodology have made harmonic and an-harmonic electron-phonon effects
 amenable to detailed investigations. While the underlying techniques are
 currently not standard and are oftentimes computationally expensive, the
 availability of modern high-performance computing enabled fantastic
 progress, e.g. for electron-phonon effects on band structures, optical
 absorption, recombination, and transport. In the near future it is
 expected that not only will the existing techniques be improved, but also
 become crucial for progress in many areas of materials research and
 condensed matter physics.
 This tutorial bridges the gap of introducing the underlying theories,
 explaining practical calculations using modern software packages, and
 understanding exciting physics for real-world applications. The latter
 comprises studies of material systems e.g. in the realm of semiconductor
 optics or thermo-electrics. The tutorial will be interesting for
 computational materials scientists and physicists who contemplate
 investigating electron-phonon effects in their research but also for
 experimentalists who want to connect closer with computational materials
 science. We are happy to have four excellent speakers
 * Feliciano Giustino, Oxford University
 * Chris G. Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara
 * Carsten Ullrich, University of Missouri
 * Mark van Schilfgaarde, Kings College
 Their talks will be very pedagogical in describing the theoretical
 foundations as well as computational approaches used in practice. Latest
 developments and open questions will naturally be integrated into all
 topics.
 We're looking forward to seeing many of you on March 12! All the best,
 Andre Schleife and Emmanouil Kioupakis