Date: November 11 - 13, 2026 Venue: IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
We are pleased to announce the upcoming VASP Workshop 2026, co-organized with Prof. Sudarshan Vijay at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. This three-day, in-person event (Nov. 11-13th 2026) provides a valuable opportunity for researchers to engage directly with the developers of the Vienna ab-initio Simulation Package (VASP), including a keynote lecture from Prof. Georg Kresse.
The workshop is designed for researchers from both academia and industry who wish to deepen their understanding of ab-initio calculations, density functional theory and machine-learning interatomic potentials. The program combines morning lectures with afternoon hands-on sessions to ensure a practical grasp of the code’s capabilities.
The following topics will be covered:
- Introduction to the projector-augmented wave (PAW) method;
- Structure relaxation and modeling surfaces;
- Basics of molecular dynamics (MD) and machine-learned force fields (MLFFs);
- Electronic structure theory and magnetism;
- Large-scale calculations (HPC and high throughput);
- Transition states and thermodynamic integration;
- Electrochemistry.