First day (Sat 3 Dec), morning session
9.00-9.30h Arrival / Installing ADF on laptops
9.30-10.00h Presentation I: the program package
  • Overview ADF, BAND, QUILD, (ReaxFF)
  • New features in ADF2010/2011
10.00-10.15h Demonstration ADF-GUI part I:
  • Basics
10.15-11.00h Hands-on session I:
  • Basics, standard GUI tutorials, easy exercises material
11.00-11.30h Coffee break
11.30-12.00h Presentation II: DFT
  • Principles Density Functional Theory
  • Accuracy of density functionals
12.00-12.15h Recent examples with ADF
12.15-14.00h Hands-on session II:
  • Easy/medium exercises material
14.00-15.30h Lunch
 
First day (Sat 3 Dec), afternoon session
16.00-16.30h Presentation III: features ADF
  • Fragment approach
  • Relativistic corrections, basis sets (complete periodic table)
16.30-16.45h Demonstration ADF-GUI part II:
  • New features in latest version
16.45-18.15h Hands-on session III:
  • Own examples, medium/difficult exercises material
18.15-18.30h Questions & Answers
 
Second day (Sun 4 Dec), morning session
9.00-9.30h Presentation IV: calculation of properties
9.30-11.00h Hands-on session IV:
  • Own examples, medium/difficult exercises material
11.00-11.30h Coffee break
11.30-12.00h Presentation V: models for chemical environment
  • Multi-scale (QM/MM, QM/QM) schemes (DRF, ReaxFF, DFTB, Mopac, UFF, ..)
  • Frozen-density embedding
  • Molecular dynamics, metadynamics
12.00-13.45h Hands-on session V:
  • Chemical environment exercises material, own examples
13.45-14.00h Q&A, Closing