Welcome!

Thank you for your interest in the seminar series on density functional theory (DFT) and many body perturbation theory (MBPT) extensions. Currently DFT, and its extensions, is one of the most pervasive methods in physics and chemistry today, being used by theorist and experimentalist alike. To this end, this seminar is aimed at both theorists and experimentalists to expose them to the fundamentals of the framework and give them hands-on experience, to use in their research.

Outline / Seminar Content

• • DFT

  • Theoretical Overview/Foundation of DFT

  • Practical Issues

  • Tight Binding

  • Motivation for a tight binding parametrization.

  • Theoretical formulation

  • Slater-Koster Scheme

  • Topology in Condensed Matter

  • Invariance Measures

  • Classifications

  • Spectroscopies and the Need for MBT

  • The need for a many body approach

  • Refresher on MBPT

  • Levels of approximation

  • GW Theory

  • Broken Symmetries

  • Going beyond RPA

  • Mode coupling

  • Excitons