Dear colleagues

Please find the 1st announcement of the 2nd Paris International School on Advanced Computational Materials Science (PISACMS), which will be held from Mon Aug 29th to Sun Sept 4th, 2016, in the Jussieu campus of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in the heart of the Latin Quarter of central Paris.

The aim of this school is to form young generations of researchers (PhD students, postdocs, young assistant professors) to atomic, molecular and condensed phase computational methods, from theory to the most advanced approaches, going from the very microscopic to the macroscopic: Density Functional Theory, classical Monte-Carlo and molecular dynamics, ab initio molecular dynamics, metadynamics, linear response, lattice-Boltzmann methods, Quantum Monte-Carlo, Path-Integral.
Our ambition is to make students aware of the fundamental principles of each methods, and then able to choose the most adapted one(s) for a given scientific problem. The broad panel of approaches we propose, both via theory lessons and computer lab "projects", is unique. 

This school benefits both from the exceptional central Paris environment, and from the local concentration of young and confirmed experts-teachers in each specific theme of the school, including Michele Casula, Guillaume Ferlat, Fabio Finocchi, Marie Jardat, Maximilien Levesque, Virginie Marry, Fabio Pietrucci, Benjamin Rotenberg, A. Marco Saitta, Mathieu Salanne, Ari Seitsonen, Rodolphe Vuilleumier.

The PISACMS website is now open with full details and pre-registration:

http://pisacms.sciencesconf.org/

Please note the important practical informations:

1. Inscription fee : 300 Euros. This includes 7-nights lodging in a student residence in Paris (2 persons/room) and all meals (breakfast/dinner at the residence, lunch on campus, social events)
2. Maximum number of participants : 60 (first registered & paid, first served policy)
3. Pre-registration deadline : March 15th, 2016
4. Payment (not open yet) : from April 10th to April 30th, 2015
5. Poster abstract submission : June 30th, 2015

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any details.

Sincerely yours,

A. Marco Saitta & Rodolphe Vuilleumier

Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Ecole Normale Supérieure

Paris, France