P. Blaha, K. Schwarz, G. Madsen, D. Kvasnicka and J. Luitz

Inst. f. Materials Chemistry, TU Vienna

The program package WIEN2k allows to perform electronic structure calculations of solids using density functional theory (DFT). It is based on the full-potential (linearized) augmented plane-wave ((L)APW) + local orbitals (lo) method, one among the most accurate schemes for band structure calculations. WIEN2k is an all-electron scheme including relativistic effects and has many features. It has been licensed by more than 2000 user groups.

The current version is WIEN2k_14.2 and was released on 16. October 2014. Version 14.2 is a minor update, fixing some bugs and introducing better support for various options in w2web. Upgrading is in particular for w2web-users highly recommended.

This year the 22. WIEN2k workshop will be held at the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHCP), Singapore. 24. - 27. June 2015 More details will follow soon.

We proudly announce that the 2000th license of WIEN2k was granted free of charge to Prof. Gopalan Srinivasan, Oakland University, USA We would also like to take the opportunity to thank all WIEN2k users for their continuous interest and the lively discussions on the WIEN2k-mailinglist. In particular we want to acknowledge all who have contributed to this package. This international cooperation is largely responsible for the success of WIEN2k.