4023151 – The ABC of DFT

Lectures: 1. Introduction and Overview: What to expect from this course and why DFT is so popular 2. Hartree-Fock & Kohn-Sham theory I: Approximating the many-electron problem 3. Hartree-Fock & Kohn-Sham theory II: Solids, molecules & unified electron gas 4. Localized and periodic basis sets 5. Jacobs Ladder: Approximations to the exact density functional 6. Molecular quantum mechanics: The ground state in DFT 7. Molecular quantum mechanics: Excited states in DFT 8. Molecular quantum mechanics: Accessing properties with DFT 9. External perturbations: Electric fields, magnetic fields and solvents 10. Modern developments in DFT: Resolution-of-the-identity approximation and density fitting 11. Modern developments in DFT: Approximations to quantum mechanical exchange 12. Modern developments in DFT: Advanced methods to approximate the exact density functional 13. Overview over recent scientific research involving DFT