The aim of EST (I and II) is to to provide students wishing to do their Master's project in the group Computational Materials Science with some necessary theoretical background as well as some basic computational and computer skills.

In Electronic Structure Theory I and II a number of the most important methods for calculating the electronic structure of solids are studied: density functional theory, norm-conserving pseudopotentials, the Car-Parrinello method and the linearized muffin-tin orbital method.
A number of illustrative problems which have analytical solutions are solved numerically to obtain greater insight into the solutions and to acquire familiarity with the UNIX operating system, the FORTRAN programming language and some numerical methods commonly used in solid state physics.