Tentative Program

For each talk, the first quoted number is the allotted time for the presentation, and the second is the time left for questions.




Wednesday (November 6)



Introduction


14:00Welcome
14:05D. C. Allan
A personal history of the Abinit project (20'+5')

Session I : Software development


14:30X. Gonze
Software engineering concepts in Abinit (40'+10')
15:20Coffee Break
15:50M. Mikami
Self-documentation of the Abinit source (20'+5')
16:15A. Roy
Parallelization in Abinit (20'+5')
16:40F. Dortu
Jmol, an open source molecular viewer... and much more ! (12'+3')
16:55T. Deutsch
Efficient ab-initio geometry optimization guided by force field (15'+5')
17:15The Abinit logo
17:25Discussion : coding rules
18:15Poster session
Beer and Cheese
Gathering of notes



Thursday (November 7)



Session II : Electric field


08:45I. Souza
Implementation of a first-principles approach to insulators in finite electric fields (30'+10')
09:25M. Veithen
The position operator in extended systems : application to electron localization and non linear optics (30'+10')
10:05Coffee Break
10:35V. Recoules
Electrical conductivity of hot expanded aluminum using Kubo-Greenwood formula (20'+5')

Session III : Pseudopotentials and PAW


11:00M. Fuchs
Constructing pseudopotentials for Abinit : on the use of the fhi98PP package (20'+5')
11:25F. Jollet
Implementation of the PAW method in the Abinit code (40'+10')
12:15Lunch

Session IV : Excited states


14:00V. Olevano and G.-M. Rignanese
Calculating GW corrections with Abinit (40'+10')
14:50J. Y. Raty
Time-Dependent LDA and Langevin molecular dynamics in Abinit (30'+10')
15:30Coffee Break
16:00M. Fuchs
Density-functionals from linear response theory : implementation in Abinit and results for H_2 and Be_2 (20'+5')

Session V : Comparison of codes


16:25S. C. Erwin
From total energies to Curie temperatures (30'+10')
17:05Javier Junquera
The Siesta program for electronic sructure simulations (20'+5')
17:30Discussion : comparison of codes & wish list
19:30Dinner at "Le Brasse-Temps"



Friday (November 8)



Session VI : Specific developments


08:45R. Caracas
Cristallography and lattice Wannier fonctions in Abinit (20'+5')
09:10M. Torrent
Spin-orbit coupling implementation in Abinit (30'+10')
09:50Coffee Break
10:20P. Casek
Topological analysis of the electron density through the Bader theory (20'+5')
10:45G. Zerah
Non-colinear magnetism, parallel in time simulations and orbital free methods (30'+10')
11:25M. Verstraete
A finite-T smearing scheme : how Abinit treats electronic temperatures and smearings (20'+5')
11:50J. Junquera
Macroscopic averages in Abinit (20'+5')
12:15Closing remarks
12:20Lunch

Session VII : Discussions


14:00More discussions on wish list
14:45Debriefing of the workshop
Planning of the next workshop
15:10Strategic discussions
15:30Coffee Break
16:00Available for more discussions...