The ASESMA Galaxy

Independent, coordinated activities that complement the main school



Regional schools 


       Central African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (CASESMA), 2018-2024 in Dschang (Cameroon), Brazzaville (Congo), and Kinshasa   

       (DR Congo) 


       mini-ASESMA in Ibadan (NIgeria), 2024

       East African School On Many-Body Theory Calculations in Solids Using the YAMBO Code in Nairobi (Kenya), 2023 

  

       Ethiopian School on Electronic Structure Methods For Emerging Energy Technologies in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 2021 

  

       East African School on Density Functional Theory and Applications using the SIESTA code in Nairobi (Kenya), 2021 

       Southern African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (SASESMA), 2019 in Pretoria (South Africa) 

     

ASESMANET 

        Atomistic Simulations, Electronic Structure, Computational Materials Science and Applications: the African Network (ASESMANET) 


USAfri 


       US-Africa Initiative for Electronic Structure (USAfri)


Visits to Fudan University 


       In 2019, some African scientists have been selected to visit Prof. Xin-Gao Gong at the Fudan University (China)

  

Virtual working groups 


       On many-body perturbation theory (led by Matteo Gatti and Andrea Marini), on catalysis (led by Nisha Mammen and Giacomo Melani) 

  

ASESMA mini-lectures


       The format consists of a 20-minute lecture, followed by discussion, for a total duration of up to 1,5 hours. They ran 2021-2022, and they are resuming on 30th January 2025: ASESMA mini-lectures