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Setting up Yambo, QE and the tutorials

To be able to follow the school you need (i) a running version of the yambo code, and (ii) the files and databases needed to run the tutorials.

You have several options to prepare all needed to run the tutorials.

The easiest way is to access to a virtual machine which contains both (i) yambo and (ii) the tutorials.

You can do it in two alternative ways:

Virtual machine via ICTP cloud (strongly suggested mode, works through internet connection inside a browser)
Install the yambo virtual machine on your laptop / desktop (requires Oracle virtual box. Pre-download of the Virtual machine. No internet connection needed)

You can also setup the yambo code on your on laptop / desktop using different methods.

As far as the Yambo source is concerned you can:

Tutorials, instead, can be installed in two ways:

Morning
Time	Lecture	Speaker
09:00 - 09:20	Welcome & Introduction	The Organizers
09:30 - 10:20	General Introduction to Density Functional Theory	TBC
10:20 - 11:10	Kohn-Sham, Exchange-Correlation functionals, approximations	TBC
11:10 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 12:20	DFT in practice: Plane-Waves, pseudopotentials	TBC
12:20 - 13:30	Lunch

Afternoon
Time	Tutorial	Tutor(s)
13:30 - 15:00	Introduction to Quantum-Espresso	Mike Atambo
15:00 - 15:30	Break
15:30 - 17:00	Introduction to Yambo	Andrea Marini
	Technical Introduction to Yambo
	The Yambo Philosophy
	database generation for bulk hBN

Morning
Time	Lecture	Speaker
09:00 - 09:50	Introduction to Spectroscopy	Matteo Gatti
09:50 - 10:40	Linear Response Theory	Andrea Marini
10:40 - 11:10	Break
11:10 - 12:00	TBC	TBC
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch

Afternoon
Time	Tutorial	Tutor(s)
13:00 - 15:00	Initialization	Andrea Marini
	Input file generation and command line options (5.0)
	Optics at the independent particle level
	Local fields