BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:[ONLINE] Computational Spectroscopy: Hands-on Many-Body Calculatio ns with the Yambo Code DTSTART:20260505T070000Z DTEND:20260507T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260419T115900Z UID:indico-event-393@events.it4i.cz CONTACT:training@it4i.cz DESCRIPTION:\nThis course is organized in collaboration with MaX CoE and N CC Czechia.\nAnnotation\nThis school provides a path from many-body theory to advanced computational practice\, focusing on the approximation for quasiparticle band structures and the Bethe–Salpeter Equation (BSE) fo r optical properties. Attendees will master the full Yambo workflow\, from ground-state processing to converged excited-state calculations and detai led exciton analysis. Practical sessions will emphasize HPC aspects\, te aching participants to leverage MPI/OpenMP parallelization and GPU-acceler ation to handle large-scale\, realistic materials on modern supercomputing platforms.\n \n\nLevel\nBeginner\, intermediate\nLanguage\nEnglish\nPrer equisites\nParticipants should have a background in Quantum Mechanics an d Solid State Physics\, along with a functional understanding of Density Functional Theory (DFT). Basic proficiency with the Linux command line  is required for navigating the HPC environment\, and familiarity with a DF T code (such as Quantum ESPRESSO) is highly recommended.\nTechnical requir ements\nParticipants must have a terminal emulator (e.g.\, Terminal on m acOS/Linux or PowerShell/CMD on Windows) and an SSH client to access the remote HPC machine (Karolina). Yambo will be preinstalled together with the needed material to follow the tutorial. Plotting tool such as Gnuplot  or Python with Matplotlib is required.\nTutors\nDr. Daniele Varsano is a Senior Researcher at the CNR-NANO Institute of Nanoscience in Modena\, I taly. Dr. Varsano’s current research centers on the atomistic modeling o f nanostructured materials for applications in photovoltaics\, photocataly sis\, and optoelectronics\, with a particular interest in excited-state ph enomena and excitonic effects in low-dimensional systems. He is a senior d eveloper of the Yambo code for first-principles excited-state calculations and has co-organized numerous international schools and workshops. He ser ves on the Steering Committee of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Fac ility\, leads Training Activities in the EU Centre of Excellence MaX (Mate rials at the Exascale)\, represents CNR in the EuroHPC project HANAMI as P rincipal Investigator\, and chairs the Psi-k Working Group on Training and Education.\nDr. Giacomo Sesti is a Post-Doc at CNR-NANO. His research int erests are screening properties of materials and electronic instabilities. He has published works on model studies and first-principle calculations. He is a developer of the Yambo code\, in particular he has contributed to the development of the W-av method for metals. He served as a tutor at tw o Yambo schools where CINECA high-performance computers were in use. He ha s been PI of one ISCRA-B project.\nDr. Andrea Ferretti works in the field of condensed-matter and solid-state physics\, performing ab initio simulat ions at the level of DFT and Green’s function methods. Current research interests the development of advanced methodologies for the electronic str ucture problem\, including spectral functionals and Green's function metho ds\, with interests in the electronic and optical properties of low-dimens ional systems (including 2D materials). Andrea Ferretti is senior develope r of the open source project Yambo and contributor to other scientific sof tware\, including Quantum ESPRESSO. Currently he is Chair of the MaX execu tive committee (www.max-centre.eu) and co-Leader of the Codes WP of the Na tional PNRR centre ICSC (www.supercomputing-icsc.it). He is author of abou t 80 scientific publications in international and peer-reviewed scientific journals (with more than 17500 citations\, h-index=37\, GScho\, January 2 026). \nMatteo D’Alessio is a PhD student enrolled in the School of Phy sics and Nanosciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His r esearch activity concentrates on the study of electronic structure propert ies with hybrid methodologies relying both on ab initio calculations and m odel approaches.\nDr. Claudia Cardoso is a permanent researcher at CNR-NAN O.Her current research interests are related to theoretical and computatio nal condensed matter physics\, focused on the ab initio (both DFT and many body perturbation methods) study of the electronic properties of 2D ferro magnetic insulators\, organic semiconductors and hybrid (organic-inorganic ) interfaces. She has participated in several research projects financed b y the Portuguese FCT and the Italian CNR and was PI of a project financed by the Portuguese FCT. She was PI of several High Performance Computer gra nts\, including Extreme Scale from EuroHPC-JU\, Prace and ISCRA projects a t Cineca\, Italy and RES\, Spain and a member of the European Centre of Ex cellence MaX\, Materials design at the eXascale.\nDr. Nicola Spallanzani is a research technologist at the CNR Institute of Nanoscience (CNR-NANO)\ , working in high-performance computing (HPC) with a focus on parallel pro gramming and GPU acceleration of scientific software. He previously worked at CINECA\, where he developed expertise in HPC systems and scientific co mputing environments. He specializes in hybrid parallel programming (MPI + OpenMP) and heterogeneous architectures using CUDA Fortran\, OpenACC\, an d OpenMP offloading. He contributes to the development of the scientific c odes Quantum ESPRESSO\, Yambo and of the DeviceXlib library for memory off loading. He is also involved in the European Centre of Excellence MaX (Mat erials design at the Exascale)\, where he serves as a Yambo developer and Technical Project Manager.\nDr. Fulvio Paleari is a Researcher at the Inst itute of Nanoscience (CNR-Nano) in Modena\, Italy. He works on both theore tical and computational methods for the study of the microscopic propertie s of materials\, using quantum many-body perturbation theory and first-pri nciples atomistic simulations. In particular\, he is interested in the ex cited-state physics of low-dimensional materials\, investigating the spect roscopy and dynamics of electronic excitations (excitons) and lattice vibr ations (phonons)\, with particular focus on their coupling. The modelling of the properties of realistic materials is done first via code developmen t and then by running large-scale simulations on high-performance computin g (HPC) systems. Dr. Paleari is a developer of the “Yambo” many-body code and the main developer of “Yambopy”\, its python-based interface. He is an active member of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF)\, the Psi-k electronic structure community\, and the EU Center of E xcellence MaX (Materials at the Exascale) and the EuroHPC Hanami project.\ nLubomír Říha\, Ph.D.\, is the Head of the Infrastructure Research Lab at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center. Previously\, he was a se nior researcher in the Parallel Algorithms Research Lab at IT4Innovations and a research scientist in the High-Performance Computing Lab at George W ashington University\, ECE Department. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. deg rees in Electrical Engineering from the Czech Technical University in Prag ue\, the Czech Republic\, in 2011\, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Scien ce from Bowie State University\, USA. Currently\, he is a local principal investigator of two EuroHPC projects: SCALABLE and EUPEX (designs a protot ype of the European Exascale machine). Previously\, he was a local princip al investigator of the H2020 Center of Excellence POP2 and H2020-FET HPC R EADEX projects and investigator of the FP7 EXA2CT project and the Intel Pa rallel Computing Center. He is also a co-founding developer of the ESPRESO finite element library\, which includes a parallel sparse solver designed for supercomputers with tens or hundreds of thousands of cores\, with sup port for GPU\, Intel Xeon Phi\, and other modern accelerators. His researc h interests are optimising HPC applications\, energy-efficient computing\, accelerating scientific and engineering applications using GPU and many-c ore accelerators\, developing scalable linear solvers\, parallel and distr ibuted rendering on new HPC architectures\, and signal and image processin g.\nFilip Vaverka holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from Brno Univer sity of Technology\, Czech Republic. He is currently a member of the Infra structure Research Lab at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center. H is research focuses on highly scalable pseudo-spectral methods\, accelerat ed and heterogeneous parallel computing. \n \n \nAcknowledgements\n \n  \nMaX - Materials design at the Exascale has received funding from the E uropean High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and Participating Cou ntries in Project (Czechia\, France\, Germany\, Italy\, Slovenia and Spain ) under grant agreement no. 101093374.\n \n\nThis work was supported by t he EUROCC3 project under grant agreement No 101306701. The project is supp orted by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and its members (including top-up funding by the Ministry of Education\, Youth an d Sports of the Czech Republic)\n \n \n\nThis course was supported by th e Ministry of Education\, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic through t he e-INFRA CZ (ID:90254).\n \nAll presentations and educational materials of this course are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareA like 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.\n\nhttps://events.it4i.cz/e vent/393/ IMAGE;VALUE=URI:https://events.it4i.cz/event/393/logo-3264908871.png LOCATION:ONLINE URL:https://events.it4i.cz/event/393/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR