>Be me, PhD student in Mat. Sci
>Take a class on /dft/ using Quantum Espresso
>Professor turns it into a fuckfest of trying to teach quantum mech, unix coding, and PDE's in 10 weeks
>Homework ends up being a bunch of non-sensical derivations of arbitrary Hamiltonians that are never explained in the textbook
>Nothing in the assignments or the teaches us about the actual software itself
Anyone here actually understand DFT and Quantum Mech that they can help me understand what the fuck the professor is on about? It just seems like he's pulling these Hamiltonians out of his ass