**Update 15 Dec 2014**: Kwant is going to be one of the main tools in a massive open online course on `topology in condensed matter <http://tiny.cc/topocm>`_. The course will start in February, sign up!
**Update 5 Feb 2014**: Kwant is one of the main tools in a massive open online course on `topology in condensed matter <http://tiny.cc/topocm>`_. The course is live sign up!
Kwant is a `free (open source) <http://git.kwant-project.org/kwant>`_ Python
package for numerical calculations on tight-binding models with a strong focus