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Rickard Armiento is an Associate Professor in Physical Modeling in the group of Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM). Rickard is also an Application Expert in Big Data Analytics at NSC.
Links to this guide are given to people working with, or being mentored by, Rickard.
Note: this is a work in progress. Many sections are far from complete, and a lot are at this point merely placeholders.
If you find anything in need of an update that you know how to update, please don't hesitate to suggest a change. Use the issues system in github, issue a pull-request, or just simply send an email to Rickard with the suggested change.
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- Arriving from outside Sweden
- Finding accomodation
- Setting up at our department
- Out-of-work activities and events
- Saftey
- Food, snacks, coffee
- Postal mail, phone, fax
- Office supplies
- Finding your way
- Meeting and lecture rooms (Booking, projector use, etc.)
- Information channels (Email lists and shared calendars)
- Being away: vacation, sick leave, parental leave, working from home
- Purchases and Expenses (Including buying a computer)
- Library (Books and papers)
- Lost and found
- Salary and benefits
- Register for conferences
- Travel
- Writing and publishing papers
- Presentations
- Posters
- Being a supporting peer for someone else
- Receiving visitors (administration, scheduling seminars, etc.)
- Contacts, etc. worth to know
- Central IT, Software (Computers, Printers)
- Supercomputer access
- Our IT infrastructure, software stack
- Professional conduct and ethics
- Career paths at LiU
- Publicity and confidentiality
- Work environment
- Overview of Department and University Organization (For more details, see the relevant Appendix B: University Organizational Info below)
When you arrive you should be assigned a 'supporting peer' ('fadder' in Swedish) to show you around and introducing the department and the university. If you don't know where to turn for a formal matter, this person is a good place to get started. Beyond that:
- If still unsure, ask the group secretary.
- About contracts, etc., contact the IFM 'HR-partner' (https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/ifm).
- Ask Rickard, preferably by email (try to avoid simply dropping by, unless urgent or of a more personal nature).
- How to become a PhD student
- Formalia
- Expectations
- Teaching
- Disseration procedure
- Info for supervisors
- Richard M. Martin, Electronic Structure: http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Structure-Theory-Practical-Methods/dp/0521534402 (a more practical-use oriented book)
- Walter Kohn Nobel lecture: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.71.1253 (A very good first read and introduction to DFT.)
- Rickard's PhD thesis chapter 2-6: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-428, and lecture notes in Rickard's DFT course (ask Rickard)
- Designing meaningful density functional theory calculations in materials science--a primer, Ann Mattsson et al. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0965-0393/13/1/R01/meta (Good for practical advice on convergence, etc.)
- Curtarolo et al., The high-throughput highway to computational materials design: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat3568 (Review of High-throughput materials design)
- VASP hands-on sessions: http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp-workshop/slides/documentation.htm
- Kieron Burke, the ABC of DFT: http://www.chem.uci.edu/~kieron/dftold2/materials/bookABCDFT/gamma/g1.pdf
- Klaus Capelle, A bird's-eye view of density-functional theory: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0211443
- Parr and Yang, Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules: http://www.amazon.com/Density-Functional-Molecules-International-Monographs-Chemistry/dp/0195092767 (great coverage of fundamental theory, but starting to get a bit dated.)
- Jorge Kohanoff, Electronic Structure Calculations for Solids and Molecules: http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Structure-Calculations-Solids-Molecules/dp/0521815916 (book, theory-oriented)
- Jones and Gunnarsson, The density functional formalism, its applications and prospects: http://rmp.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v61/i3/p689_1 (review paper from 1989)
- LinuxCommand.org: http://linuxcommand.org/ (Good introduction to the Linux command line, etc.)
- Eric Jones and Travis Oliphant, Introduction to Scientific Computing: https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/grad/509/python1.pdf (Presentation on the use of Python for Scientific Computing)