PhD Courses in Denmark

To provide the participants with knowledge about the latest research within electronic structure methods and atomistic simulations and to practice scientific discussion and presentation.

A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

• Recognize concepts and abbreviations that are often employed in classical and modern electronic structure theory.
• Describe methods for calculating the total energy of molecules and solids.
• Discuss the central concepts related to interacting electron systems.
• Perform an independent literature search.
• Perform a well-defined delimitation of a larger research area, with the purpose to enable a comprehensible presentation of an issue or method of electronic structure theory.
• Present methods and results orally in a clear and comprehensible fashion.
• Critically evaluate the usefulness of methods for calculating specific materials- and electronic structure properties with respect to accuracy.
• Critically evaluate the usefulness of computational methods with respect to their required computational resources.

The course will consist in presentations and discussions of scientific articles within electronic structure and atomistic simulations. The discussions may also include more computer technical aspects of simulations and large-scale computations. The student who presents prepares a computer presentation or a one-page summary of the main results.