 |
Computational Materials Physics |
 |
News
Congratulation to the Successful Habilitation Talk of Dr. Lubomir Benco
entitled "Properties and reactivity of active sites and zeolites"
Congratulations on the full membership at ÖAW in the presence of the president of Austria
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Georg Kresse
Home
Computational materials science is one of the fastest developing fields in Physics and Chemistry. It is focused on the investigation of the complex properties of solids and liquids on an atomistic scale - making a quantum-mechanical description of the interaction between atoms and electrons mandatory.
Although the basic concepts of quantum mechanics have been discovered about 80 years ago, a wide-scale application on materials science has only become feasible in the last decades. Based on the development of density functional theory (DFT) by Walter Kohn, systems of several hundred atoms can be routinely simulated on present-day computers.
The Vienna ab-initio Simulations Package (VASP), which has been developed in our group, is one of the most efficient implementations. At the moment, VASP is used by more than 1000 research groups in industry and academia worldwide. It is also used as a common tool within most of our research projects.
Our research group continues to develop VASP and applies VASP to problems in Surface Science, Catalysis and Semiconductor Physics, exploring zeolites, unconventional magnetic materials and nanostructures.
Currently the group is headed by Jürgen Hafner and Georg Kresse. Jürgen Hafner also leads the Doctoral College "Computational Materials Science" funded by the Austrian Science fund. Within this College we offer exciting research possibilities for graduate and PhD students.
Georg Kresse is currently also speaker of the Spezialforschungsbereich ViCoM, aiming to explore new methods for the accurate description of the interaction between electrons, and developing multiscale methods for the atomic scale simulations. The SFB merges the expertise of 10 groups working in Vienna on the development of advanced atomic scale modelling methods.
Academic Dates
-
FALL TERM 2011
-
Start Oct 1, 2011
End Jan 31, 2012
-
University holiday
-
Dies academicus March 14 all classes cancelled
Easter break April 18 - May 1 all classes cancelled
Summer vacation July 1 - Sep 30 all classes cancelled
First day of classes for 2011 fall term Oct 3
No classes Nov 2
Christmas break Dec 19, 2011 - Jan 8, 2012
First day of classes Jan 9, 2012
-
EXAMINATION
-
Examination date (spring term 2011)
3rd Einführung in die numerische Programmierung mit dem Schwerpunkt Fortran90 Fri, Nov 11, 2011 16:30-18:00
Scientific Computing Fri, Nov 11, 2011 15:00-16:30
4th
Einführung in die numerische Programmierung mit dem Schwerpunkt Fortran 90 Fri, Jan 13, 2012 15:00-16:30
Scientific Computing Fri, Jan 13, 2012 16:30-18:00
Location: Ludwig-Boltzmann-Hörsaal, Strudlhofgasse 4, EG, 1090 Wien
Previous notice requested for number of test scripts to: edith.wolfsgruber@univie.ac.at
University of Vienna
Sensengasse 8/12
1090 Wien
T: +43-1-4277-514 01
F: +43-1-4277-9514