Dear colleague, we are pleased to announce a 10-days Hands-on Tutorial Workshop on Ab Initio Molecular Simulations: Towards a First-Principles Understanding of Materials Properties and Functions Tuesday, July 12 - Thursday, July 21, 2011 http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/th/Meetings/DFT-workshop-Berlin2011/ This ten-day Hands-On Tutorial Workshop introduces the basic and current developments in electronic structure theory for an intended audience of researchers entering the field. Morning lectures on the most important topics will be given by a field of local and international experts, complemented by afternoon hands-on sessions - practical exercises with computers - to deepen selected topics. For example, we cover: * Density functional theory (DFT) and quantum chemical approaches * the most important numerical implementations * advanced functionals (capabilities and limits!) * electronic structure theory "beyond traditional Kohn-Sham DFT" (including GW, TDDFT, many-body formalisms) * ab initio molecular dynamics * predictive multiscale approaches based on first principles ... and a wide range of other topics. The registration and poster abstract submission interfaces for the workshop are now open. For space reasons, the number of participants will be limited to approx. 60. Acceptance decisions will be made within 2 weeks after the deadline (March 28, 2011). With kind regards, The Organizers (Volker Blum, Heiko Appel, Matthias Scheffler) Participants may obtain some financial support from us to (partially) cover the local expenses. See the web page for details: http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/th/Meetings/DFT-workshop-Berlin2011/