Posted in 2022

AiiDA v2.2.0 released

We are pleased to announce that AiiDA v2.2 was just released [1]. It can be installed as always from PyPI using pip install aiida-core==2.2.

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Swiss consortium wins funding to establish ORD practices leveraging AiiDA and openBIS

A consortium led by Dr. Giovanni Pizzi (project leader of NCCR MARVEL’s Pillar 3, “Digital Infrastructure of Open Simulations and Data,” and Group leader of the “Materials Software and Data” group at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI), including also researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich, has won funding of almost CHF1.3 million for a 3-year project funded under the “ORD-R Establish” initiative of the ETH Board.

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AiiDA v2.1.0 released

We are pleased to announce that AiiDA v2.1 was just released [1]. It can be installed as always from PyPI using pip install aiida-core==2.1.

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AiiDA online demo and virtual tutorial 2022

The AiiDA team is excited to announce the 2022 edition of our introductory tutorial, now prefaced with a short demonstration of AiiDA’s capabilities in orchestrating workflows for materials science!

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SciPy2022 talk: AiiDA common workflows for computing material properties using different quantum engines

On Wednesday, July 13th, we will be giving a talk about the AiiDA common workflows project at the SciPy, Austin TX conference.

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AiiDA features in Nature Reviews Physics “Tools of the Trade”

To mark the release of AiiDA v2.0, it was presented as a “Tool of the Trade” in Nature Reviews Physics. It gives a high-level overview of the developments in AiiDA itself, but also provides an insight in the ever growing ecosystem surrounding it. The plugin registry shows the activity of the user community that is starting to include industry as well as academia. This community is what makes collaborative projects, such as the AiiDA common workflows for example, possible.

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AiiDA v2.0.0 released

We are very happy to announce that today we released the final version of AiiDA v2.0! This is the culmination of over two years of work that focused on re-designing the codebase to make it more performant, user-friendly, and maintainable, with minimal changes to the API.

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AiiDA v2.0.0b1 released

We are very happy to announce that today we released the beta version for the second major release of AiiDA! This is the culmination of over two years of work that focused on re-designing the codebase to make it more performant, user-friendly, and maintainable, with minimal changes to the API.

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Open positions: BIG-MAP and MARVEL Postdocs/Software Engineers

Two open positions for postdocs/software engineers are available at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), under the supervision of Prof. Nicola Marzari and Dr. Giovanni Pizzi. The positions are renewable yearly up to 4 years.

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Wannier 2022 Summer School

The “Wannier 2022 Summer School” will be held at ICTP (Trieste, Italy) from 16 to 20 May 2022.

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