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2012 NWChem Workshop, June 8-9


Friday June 8, 2012
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. Opening Remarks, Mark Jarrell (LSU)
9:10 a.m. - 10:10 p.m. Basic Introduction of Computational Chemistry (PDF)
10:10 a.m. - 11:10 p.m. Basic Introduction of NWChem software (PDF)
11:10 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Ground and Excited States with DFT and TDDFT (PDF)
12:10 p.m. - 12:25 p.m. Group Picture
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Correlated Methods for Ground and Excited states (PDF)
2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Hands-on tutorials
Saturday June 9, 2012
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Relativity, Spectroscopy and the EMSL Basis Set Library (PDF)
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Classical Molecular Dynamics and QM/MM (PDF)
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Ab Initio Plane Wave Molecular Dynamics (PDF)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Hands-on tutorials and getting your science to run

Hands-on Tutorials
Example I: Total energy, geometry optimization, and frequency calculation of Benzene within B3LYP using the DFT module. (PDF)
Transition-State Searching with NWChem. Example: dielsalder.nw (PDF)
Example I: Total energy of Benzene within Hartree-Fock approximation.
Example II: Structural optimization of benzene within the Hartree-Fock approximation.
Example III: Frequency calculation of benzene within the Hartree-Fock approximation.
(PDF)
Example I: MP2 calculations for Benzene.
Example II: Structural optimization of benzene within the MP2 approximation.
Example III: Frequency calculation of benzene within the MP2 approximation.
Example IV: Comparisons between three different MP2 programs in NWChem.
(PDF)
Example I: Total energy of Benzene within MP2 approximation.
Example II: Structural optimization of benzene within the Hartree-Fock approximation.
Example III: Frequency calculation of benzene within the Hartree-Fock approximation.
(PDF)
Example I: Coupled-cluster calculations for the water molecule.
Example II: Coupled-cluster calculations for the methyl radical.
Example III: Coupled-cluster calculations of the excitation energies of the water molecule.
(PDF)
Example: Thermodynamics. (PDF)