The webinar titled Learning electronic structure from X-ray spectroscopy: Multiplet theory, data, and high-performance computing, organized by the EuroCC National Competence Center Sweden (ENCCS), will be held on 3 March 2026.
Understanding how electrons behave in complex materials is key to technologies ranging from lithium-ion batteries to magnetic and spin-based materials. X-ray spectroscopies offer a powerful way to probe these electronic and magnetic properties, but interpreting the spectra and resulting data often requires theoretical models and large-scale computations that can seem intimidating to newcomers.
This 90-minute webinar will explore how X-ray spectroscopy, combined with modern electronic-structure theory, data analysis, and high-performance computing (HPC) can be used to understand redox chemistry and magnetism in transition-metal oxides. Using examples from battery cathode materials and magnetic oxides, this webinar introduces how experimental techniques such as XPS and XMCD can be interpreted with the help of multiplet ligand-field theory and advanced electronic-structure calculations carried out on HPC platforms. The focus is on physical intuition and conceptual understanding, offering a gentle introduction to how spectroscopy, data, and large-scale computation work together in materials research.
The webinar is free and intended for researchers in academia, industry, or related fields, experimentalists, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in physics, chemistry, or materials science.
