Preliminary program

• Brief theoretical introduction and establishment of a common language

1. Density Functional Theory and Linear response.
2. Time Dependent DFT.
3. Hartree-Fock and the GW approximation.
4. Excitons: The Bethe-Salpeter Equation.
5. Unix, Installation of codes, ground state calculations.

• Hands on Time Dependent Density Functional Theory

1. Real time implementation (instructions) (input files).
2. Casida Equation (traditional and Lanczos implementation).
3. Time Dependent Density Functional Perturbation Theory.

• Hands on GW

1. Standard GW implementations.
2. Convergencies/Divergencies and good practices.
3. Big systems, optimized basis.
4. Metals, lifetimes.

• Hands on the Bethe-Salpeter Equation

1. Standard BSE implementations.
2. Beyond Tamm-Dancoff.
3. Discussion

Detailed program