Octopus course 2023

Octopus Training Courses in 2023:

Octopus Basics (Sep. 11-15)

Day 1 (11 Sep):

• Short presentation of the theory and code features
• Octopus basics tutorial series

Day 2 (12 Sep):

• From the theory to practical numerical implementations
• Optical absorption tutorial series

Day 3 (13 Sep):

• Solids tutorial series
• Model systems

Day 4 (14 Sep):

• Postopus introduction
• Postopus tutorial

Days 5 (15 Sep):

• Maxwell tutorials
• Free project [students choose one or more tutorials that haven’t been covered yet]

Octopus Advanced (Sep. 25-29)

Day 1 (25 Sep):

• Overview over the philosophy of Octopus
• Coding paradigms and object orientation in Octopus

Day 2 (26 Sep):

• Some advanced topics in *git*
• Testing and CI in Octopus
• The structure of Octopus

Day 3 (27 Sep):

• Mesh and grids
• Mesh functions and batches
• The multisystem framework

Day 4 (28 Sep):

• Classes of the multisystem framework
• Example: celestial dynamics

Days 5 (29 Sep):

• High Performance Computing
• Debugging and Profiling
• Summary