(From MMikami 20021210) Lectures notes on Prof. Hutter's page http://pciwww.unizh.ch/pci/hutter/information/information.html See especially "Introduction to Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics" http://pciwww.unizh.ch/pci/hutter/information/lecture_notes.pdf NB added by MMikami 20041029 the above URLs are not reachable. Instead, please follow this way: 1) visit http://www.unizh.ch/pci/e/index.php 2) click "Research Groups", and click "Hutter" on the left side of the menu 3) click "Information" in the submenu of "Hutter". You can find the following "Supporting Materials": - "CECAM tutorial on Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics, Lyon, 2.-7. September 2002" - "Thirteenth summer school on Computing Techniques in Physics, Parallelization of Algorithms in Physics, Trest, 16.-21. September 2002" - "Lecture Notes" (just FYI: NIC Series site, where you can find relevant papers: http://www.fz-juelich.de/nic-series/index.html ) (From MMikami 20030717) Hands-on tutorial course on VASP http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp-workshop (From MMikami 20041022) Lecture on the theory "Atoms-in-Molecules" by Prof. R.F.W.Bader http://www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/faculty/bader/aim/ (From MMikami 20041022) "Condensed Matter Web Resources" maintained by the SISSA team http://www.sissa.it/cm/index.php?contents=webr/webresources.html Helpful lecture notes and and useful links are available there, for example, - "Density Functional Theory" http://www.sissa.it/cm/index.php?contents=webr/structure.html - "Computer Programming" http://www.sissa.it/cm/index.php?contents=webr/computer.html - "Tools for Computational Physics" http://www.sissa.it/cm/index.php?contents=webr/tools.html - "Scientific software" http://www.sissa.it/cm/index.php?contents=webr/software.html and so on ... (From MMikami 20051129) "Chemical Bonding Analysis in Direct Space - Electron Localization Function" http://www.cpfs.mpg.de/ELF/