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This is the BlueSky presence of the FHI-aims electronic structure code - fhi-aims.org . FHI-aims is a community-based electronic structure code for materials and molecules, efficient, all-electron, up to very large systems.

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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Our next FHI-aims Users' and Developers' Meeting: Hamburg, June 10-12, 2026 Plenty of new developments - thank you, everyone, and see you soon! events.ms1p.org/event/18/
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FHI-aims Developers' and Users' Meeting 2026
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE THEORY WITH NUMERIC ATOM-CENTERED BASIS FUNCTIONS June 10 – June 12, 2026In-person participation at Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL)Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hambur...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
📣 A new FHI-aims patch version 250822_1 with several bug fixes is now available! If you're a registered user, head over to the aimsclub to grab the newest version: fhi-aims.org/get-the-code... 📖 The changelog can be seen here: fhi-aims.org/uploads/docu... As always, thank you to all contributors!
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
📖 The FHI-aims manual for the latest release (250822) is now available as a fully searchable and web-indexable HTML5 version on the FHI-aims website: fhi-aims.org/uploads/manu... Huge thank you to Konstantin M. Lion for pulling this off! 👏 (1/4)
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
📣 We are happy to announce the next FHI-aims Webinar on Multiscale Modeling with Explicit Embedding Approaches in FHI-aims! For registration and more details, click here: events.ms1p.org/e/webinar_ex...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Happy new year from FHI-aims 🥳 🎇 In case you're interested to keep up to date with the latest developments in the world of FHI-aims in 2026, last year we started a newsletter, with previous entries from 2025 available to view on our website: fhi-aims.org/news/newslet...
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FHI-aims. All-electron electronic structure theory with numeric atom-centered orbitals.
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Volker Blum @aimsduke.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
#chemsky #compchemsky We updated the web page for our Theory Training Workshop, November 21/22, 2025, with several IMO really useful materials, almost to completion: hybrid3.duke.edu/workshops/20... The talks were remarkable, as were the tutorials. HUGE thanks to all speakers and tutors!
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2025 HybriD3 Materials Theory Training Workshop
The 2025 HybriD3 Theory Training Workshop will be held at Duke University on November 21 and 22, 2025. The workshop is aimed at graduate students and postdocs entering the field; senior undergraduate ...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
What a great week in Shanghai for the Hands-on Workshop on Electronic-Structure Theory and Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science! A huge thank you to our speakers, tutorial preparers, organizers, and participants for making it such an excellent event to learn about FHI-aims.
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We are looking forward to the Hands-on Workshop on Electronic-Structure Theory and Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science tomorrow! In case you aren't in Shanghai, you can find livestreams of all the lectures, beginning at 10.00 CST 5 November here: www.koushare.com/live/details...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Interested in rapid and reliable prediction of IR spectra? Check out this pre-print on the foundational model, MACE4IR, by Nitik Bhatia, Ondrej Krejci, Silvana Botti, Patrick Rinke, and Miguel A. L. Marques : arxiv.org/abs/2508.19118
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MACE4IR: A foundation model for molecular infrared spectroscopy
Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have shown significant promise in predicting infrared spectra with high fidelity. However, the absence of general-purpose MLIPs capable of handling a wid...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
📢 New FHI-aims release 250822 📢 Lots of new things including: QM-in-QM embedding with EmbASI, superconductivity, implicit solvation with Environ, Q4C up to 1500 atoms, faster range separated hybrids, and a whole lot more. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed!
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Interested in the automated construction of Machine Learning Force Fields? Check out this exciting new pre-print describing aims-PAX, which utilizes FHI-aims, from Tobias Henkes, Shubham Sharma, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Mariana Rossi, and Igor Poltavsky: arxiv.org/abs/2508.12888 (1/2)
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aims-PAX: Parallel Active eXploration for the automated construction of Machine Learning Force Fields
Recent advances in machine learning force fields (MLFF) have significantly extended the capabilities of atomistic simulations. This progress highlights the critical need for reliable reference dataset...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
📣 We are happy to announce the next FHI-aims webinar in September. Find out about explainable AI models for materials science using the SISSO approach with Thomas Purcell and Lucas Foppa! For more details/registration, click here: indico.ms1p.org/e/webinar_si...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A huge thank you and congratulations to Jakob Filser who merged an interface for the continuum embedding package Environ (environ.readthedocs.io) into FHI-aims! Check out the pre-print with Jakob and co-authors describing it here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.17672 Happy simulating of implicit solvation!
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Coupling all-electron full-potential density functional theory with grid-based continuum embeddings
Recent advances in continuum embedding models have enabled the incorporation of solvent and electrolyte effects into density functional theory (DFT) simulations of material surfaces, significantly ben...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
💻Check out our 5-minute introduction to simulating photoemission spectra with the GW approach and FHI-aims: youtu.be/r8vW5jOaLmg Based on the great GW compendium by Dorothea Golze!
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Calculating Charged Excitations with FHI-aims and the GW approach
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Congratulations to Jingkai Quan, Christian Carbogno, Nikita Rybin, and Matthias Scheffler, on their manuscript describing the implementation of an efficient band structure unfolding method in FHI-aims! You can read the pre-print now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.21089
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Efficient Band Structure Unfolding with Atomic-centered Orbitals: General Theory and Application
Band structure unfolding is a key technique for analyzing and simplifying the electronic band structure of large, internally distorted supercells that break the primitive cell's translational symmetry...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
📣 A new FHI-aims patch version 250320_1 with several small bug fixes is now available! Head over to the aimsclub to grab the newest version: fhi-aims.org/get-the-code... 📖 The full changelog can be seen here: fhi-aims.org/uploads/docu... As always, thank you to all contributors!
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sabia-group.bsky.social @sabia-group.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
What an epic account! New FHI-aims review/account, last one in 2009 :-) @fhi-aims.bsky.social team is very happy it came out. Organized by Kokott, Rossi, Scheffler and Blum, with parts by many contribution leaders and accounting for the work of 200+ people! Huge community effort. #compchemsky
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Jan Hermann @hrmnn.net · 02/05/2025
7 years since finishing Phd, and some of the work still keeps coming out. @fhi-aims.bsky.social is a great piece of electronic structure software, and I'm proud I could have contributed a little bit arxiv.org/abs/2505.00125
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Roadmap on Advancements of the FHI-aims Software Package
Electronic-structure theory is the foundation of the description of materials including multiscale modeling of their properties and functions. Obviously, without sufficient accuracy at the base, relia...
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Volker Blum @aimsduke.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The biggest paper I was ever part of appeared on arXiV today: "Roadmap on Advancements of the FHI-aims Software Package". Over 20 years of work. Immensely grateful to the 200+ people on this paper, who pushed our ability to simulate materials forward! #chemsky #compchemsky arxiv.org/abs/2505.00125
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Roadmap on Advancements of the FHI-aims Software Package
Electronic-structure theory is the foundation of the description of materials including multiscale modeling of their properties and functions. Obviously, without sufficient accuracy at the base, relia...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Our big overview paper "Roadmap on Advancements of the FHI-aims Software Package" appeared today on ArXiV: arxiv.org/abs/2505.00125 Thank you to our INCREDIBLE community of so many individuals who contributed to FHI-aims and pushed the boundaries of electronic structure theory!
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Roadmap on Advancements of the FHI-aims Software Package
Electronic-structure theory is the foundation of the description of materials including multiscale modeling of their properties and functions. Obviously, without sufficient accuracy at the base, relia...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Interested in heterogeneous catalysis? Check out our new 5-min video on how to simulate catalysts with FHI-aims: youtu.be/nCBQkbVkCMI Based on the great work of Ray Miyazaki! 💻
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FHI-aims Online Tutorials: FHI-aims for Heterogeneous Catalysis
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📢 We are happy to announce that applications for our upcoming Hands-On Workshop in Shanghai from November 05-08, 2025, are now open! You can find all details here: indico.ms1p.org/e/Shanghai2025
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The recordings for last week's webinar on catalysis are now online: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Thank you to Ray Miyazaki for his great talk and everyone who made for a lively Q&A!
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Webinar on "From Model to Mechanism in Heterogeneous Catalysis" - YouTube
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🚨 New FHI-aims release 250320! 🚨 New Dynamical Configuration Interaction method, warnings module, improvements to GW, BSE, RI, Periodic TERS, XDM, spin texture, CODATA handling, phonons and a whole lot more. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed! fhi-aims.org/uploads/docu...
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Volker Blum @aimsduke.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is a remarkable paper! A gigantic dataset of highly precise, highly accurate first-principles data. This builds on years of work on @fhi-aims.bsky.social - enabling dispersion-corrected hybrid DFT that covers a huge swath of chemical space. Congrats to the authors! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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The QCML dataset, Quantum chemistry reference data from 33.5M DFT and 14.7B semi-empirical calculations - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The QCML dataset, Quantum chemistry reference data from 33.5M DFT and 14.7B semi-empirical calculations
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
📢 We are happy to announce our next FHI-aims webinar. Find out how to model heterogenous catalysis with FHI-aims and Ray Miyazaki! For more details/registration, click here: indico.ms1p.org/e/webinar_ca...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Learn how to calculate diffusion pathways with FHI-aims and aimsChain with our new 5-min video and accompanying written tutorial: youtu.be/wjQDEE7UCWw Based on the work of Swastika Banerjee and Alexandre Tkatchenko 🥳
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The recordings of our recent FHI-aims webinar and hands-on session are now online: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Thank you to our great speakers, Mariana Rossi (@mahrossi.bsky.social) and Alexandre Tkatchenko, as well as everyone who joined and participated in the lively Q&A and hands-on session!
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Webinar on Advanced Electronic Structure Methods for Battery Design and Vibrational Spectroscopy - YouTube
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
📢 A new year and a new FHI-aims webinar already lined up. What a great start! Learn about modeling batteries and vibrational spectroscopy with FHI-aims 💻 For more details/registration, click here: indico.ms1p.org/e/webinar_ba... ***
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The year is almost over but there is one more good news item from the FHI-aims community today: BSE@GW for optical properties of extended periodic systems. HAPPY 2025!
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
📢Want to learn how to calculate thermal conductivities in solids with FHI-vibes? Then watch our new 5-min video on the importance of anharmonic contributions in CuI: youtu.be/9mfFt_ZWjqM Thanks to work by @flokno.bsky.social , @carbogno.bsky.social , Tom Purcell, and Shuo Zhao 🎉🎉
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FHI-aims Online Tutorials: Thermal transport with FHI-vibes
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The recordings of our last week's FHI-aims webinar and hands-on session are now online: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Thank you to our great speakers, Matthias Scheffler and Christian Carbogno, as well as everyone who joined and participated in the lively Q&A and hands-on session! 🥰🎉
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Webinar on FHI-aims Roadmap and Accurate Thermal and Electrical Transport with FHI-aims - YouTube
Recordings and Videos, including a live tutorial session, for the FHI-aims webinar series entry on the "FHI-aims Roadmap and Accurate Thermal and Electrical ...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The FHI-aims repo has just passed 20,000 commits! 🎉 A huge thank you to the FHI-aims community, whose outstanding work over the past 20 years has made this milestone possible.
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
FHI-aims has a minor (bugfix) release out today, labeled 240920_2 . Here is the CHANGELOG: fhi-aims.org/uploads/docu... Thanks to James Green, Sebastian Kokott and Konstantin Lion who pushed this one forward.
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
For electronic structure theory, FHI-aims continues to push the boundaries. Our community added many new tutorials recently and that work continues - linked from here: fhi-aims.org We are an academic community code and all of this is a testament to the many people who continue to build FHI-aims.
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FHI-aims. All-electron electronic structure theory with numeric atom-centered orbitals.
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Great movies for Friday night (and beyond): Our FHI-aims webinar on 9/25/2024 - talks by Volker Blum (who is writing this) and Marcus Neumann (always impressive work!) and Hands-On Tutorials - thanks to Konstantin Lion, Sebastian Kokott, James Green, Andrei Sobolev: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Efficient dispersion-corrected hybrid DFT with FHI-aims - YouTube
Talks and hands-on tutorials of the FHI-aims webinar series entry on "Efficient dispersion-corrected hybrid DFT with FHI-aims"
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
The new FHI-aims release 240920 is official! fhi-aims.org/news This is, once again, due to significant work from many in our community and we're immensely grateful to (and proud of) everyone who made this happen.
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Working on a new stable FHI-aims release this week! In preparation of our webinar & hands-on tutorial next week indico.ms1p.org/event/4/ but most importantly, once again, better code and better science thanks to the hard work of lots of individuals from the community!
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Efficient Dispersion-Corrected Hybrid DFT for Organic and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Systems
Save the date(Calendar Entry / Zoom Link) Join us for this webinar, consisting of expert talks and interactive hands-on sessions, on efficient dispersion-corrected hybrid DFT for organic and hybrid organic-inorganic systems with FHI-aims. Hybrid density functionals, which incorporate a portion of exact exchange from Hartree-Fock theory, offer improved accuracy in electronic structure calculations compared to computationally cheaper, frequently used semilocal density functional...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
#chemsky #compchemsky Here is Konstantin's short tutorial video that shows how molecular and materials simulations work with FHI-aims - 6 minutes. Simple, precise, fast, and covers molecules and solids on equal footing. youtu.be/bQTOoPepmO0?...
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The Basics of FHIaims
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
#chemsky #compchemsky indico.ms1p.org/event/4/ On Sep. 25-26, 2024, we will be holding a FHI-aims webinar and tutorial, which is for beginners as well as for experts interested in an update. The focus is on molecular crystal-structure prediction and organic-inorganic semiconductors - please join!
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Efficient Dispersion-Corrected Hybrid DFT for Organic and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Systems
Save the date(Calendar Entry / Zoom Link) Join us for this webinar, consisting of expert talks and interactive hands-on sessions, on efficient dispersion-corrected hybrid DFT for organic and hybrid organic-inorganic systems with FHI-aims. Hybrid density functionals, which incorporate a portion of exact exchange from Hartree-Fock theory, offer improved accuracy in electronic structure calculations compared to computationally cheaper, frequently used semilocal density functional...
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
FHI-aims + XRD provide high-precision geometries of complex organic-inorganic hybrid crystals, essentially neutron diffraction for hydrogen positions:
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Should not have forgotten to highlight Sebastian Kokott et al's "Efficient all-electron hybrid density functionals for atomistic simulations beyond 10 000 atoms": doi.org/10.1063/5.02... This work dramatically enhances our ability for precise, accurate simulations across materials and molecules.
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Efficient all-electron hybrid density functionals for atomistic simulations beyond 10 000 atoms
Hybrid density functional approximations (DFAs) offer compelling accuracy for ab initio electronic-structure simulations of molecules, nanosystems, and bulk mat
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
And, thanks to the Warwick workshop, we have a new FHI-aims release: 240507 ! Among other things, energy band structures with hybrid functionals for large systems just became cheaper again - thanks to hard work by Andrei Sobolev on minimizing the SCF k-space grid requirements. fhi-aims.org/news
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
Thank you again for a great and inspiring FHI-aims UK workshop in Warwick, Reini Maurer, Andy Logsdail and all co-organizers and participants!
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CSTCC2024 @cstcc.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
Today is your last day to register for the #cstcc2024 conference in Halifax! catc.ca/cstcc2024/re... #maythe4th #chemsky 🧪
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
Lots of electronic structure theory progress at the FHI-aims UK meeting - starts in 11 days: logsdail.github.io/fhiaims_meet... This is shaping up to be a great meeting! Huge thanks to the organizers: Reinhard Maurer, Andrew Logsdail, Connor Box, Svenja Janke, Pavel Stishenko, Oscar van Vuren
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
FHI-aims for NMR has been possible for a while - now published:
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
The big FHI-aims news today is that our work on extremely large hybrid DFT calculations (periodic and non-periodic) is on arXiV: "Efficient All-electron Hybrid Density Functionals for Atomistic Simulations Beyond 10,000 Atoms" arxiv.org/abs/2403.10343 Really, over 30,000 atoms as per the benchmarks.
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FHI-aims @fhi-aims.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
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