Join our Perturbo workshop on May 8-9 on Caltech campus and via Zoom. Everyone is welcome!

Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce a workshop on PERTURBO. The workshop will be held both in person (at Caltech, in Pasadena) and remotely via Zoom, on May 8-9, 2025. Lectures will be offered in-person and streamed on Zoom on May 8. In-person participants will also attend hands-on sessions on May 9. The workshop will cover both theory and practice, focusing on the topics listed below.

We encourage interested students and postdocs to register for the workshop using this Google form. The deadline to register for the in-person workshop is April 8, and the deadline to register for the zoom workshop is May 1. Note that the in-person workshop is capped at 40 participants. Registrants to the in-person workshop should provide a CV and a motivation statement in the form. We will select and notify in-person attendees; those not selected will be automatically registered for the Zoom workshop. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer financial support to attend the workshop at Caltech.

Topics covered in the workshop:

  • Theory of electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions and transport / ultrafast dynamics in the Boltzmann equation framework and beyond.
  • Code download, build and setup. Preliminary steps and interface with other codes (DFT/DFPT with Quantum Espresso, Wannier function generation with Wannier90). Postprocessing with Perturbopy.
  • Tutorials and hands-on sessions: calculations of e-ph matrix elements and scattering rates; charge transport and ultrafast electron dynamics in the Boltzmann eq. framework, interface to TDEP and SSCHA.
  • Advanced topics and recent developments, including: e-ph interactions in the presence of anharmonic phonons, polarons, excitons, spin-orbit coupling and spin relaxation, strong correlations; spin-phonon interactions and spin relaxation times; magnetotransport; electron-defect interactions; GPU acceleration; cumulant spectral functions.