The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in collaboration with the National Science Foundation of China and Fudan University, is jointly organizing a School and Advanced Workshop on Modern Electronic Structure Computations to be held in Shanghai from 8th to 12th July 2013. This event will consist of a two-days advanced workshop on recent advances in electronic structure theory, followed by a three-days hands-on school where students learn how to use modern electronic structure software. The workshop is intended to give participants, particularly the students of the school, an overview of what density-functional theory and related approaches can be used for in practice. Topics covered in the advanced workshop will include: Surfaces/interfaces and related quantum phenomena, modern approaches to theoretical spectroscopy, theoretical materials science for energy conversion and storage. The hands-on school will cover: Wannier functions, electron transport, first principles molecular dynamics, rare events and transition path sampling, time-dependent density functional theory, and many-body perturbation theory (GW approximation).