We are pleased to announce that on Sunday, March 15, 2026 we will hold a one-day short course on Electron-phonon physics from first principles: Theory and computational tools under the auspices of the Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) at 2026 APS Global Physics Summit.
To register, please select “DCOMP: Electron-phonon Physics from First Principles” under the Short Courses section during the meeting registration process. The registration fee includes lunch and is as follows: $40 for students, $60 for early career scientists, $75 for APS members, and $100 for non-APS members.
This short course introduces students, postdocs, and researchers to modern first-principles approaches for modeling electron-phonon physics, with a focus on data and automation. It will consist of six one-hour lectures covering ab initio many-body theory of electron-phonon interactions, transport phenomena, phonon-mediated superconductivity, phonon-assisted optical processes, and polarons. The lectures will be followed by a two-hour hands-on tutorial session using online Jupyter notebooks via the MATCSSI cloud integration https://matcssi.tacc.utexas.edu/. The tutorials will employ EPW, in combination with Quantum ESPRESSO and Wannier90. Some familiarity with density functional theory (DFT) calculations using any software package would be beneficial, although prior experience with EPW or density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) is not required.
The course will be taught by Feliciano Giustino (University of Texas at Austin), Roxana Margine (Binghamton University), Sabyasachi Tiwari (University of Texas at Austin), Samuel Poncé (Université catholique de Louvain), Marios Zacharias (The Cyprus Institute of Technology), and Fabio Caruso (Kiel University).
We are looking forward to seeing you in Denver,
Roxana Margine, Feliciano Giustino, and Sabyasachi Tiwari.
Short Course: “DCOMP Electron-phonon physics from first principles” at 2026 APS Global
Moderator: stiwari