Organizers:   Thomas Frauenheim (University of Bremen)

Qiang Cui (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Bob Hamers, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Joel Pedersen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Location:       University of Bremen, Germany,

12^th June until 16^th June 2017

1. Summary

The workshop “Tackling Complexity of the Nano/Bio Interface – Computational and Experimental Approaches” was held at the University of Bremen, Germany from June 12^th to 16^th 2017. In total, 72 participants from Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Ireland, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, France, Germany, UK and US attended the workshop.

The programme consisted of 28 invited lectures, one poster session presenting 27 posters and many events (reception / conference dinner) to allow for informal exchange. The lectures were scheduled to last 40 min, including 5-10 min discussion time. In addition to this extended time for discussion, the chairpersons were instructed to introduce the subject of the session and to actively participate in the discussion. This “Gordon-conference-style” was essential to guarantee a vivid discussion. The organizers ensured that well-established scientists acted as invited speakers and chairpersons. Continue reading Scientific Report regarding the CECAM Workshop: “Tackling complexity of the nano/bio interface – computational and experimental approaches” →

The third Berlin edition of the “HoW exciting! Workshop on excitations in solids” was a very successful event. It took place in the Campus Adlershof of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The subject of the workshop, namely excitations in solids, is extremely up-to-date, attracting the attention of a vast interdisciplinary community. Technological applications based on excitations in solids are closely interconnected with the fundamental physical mechanisms ruling them. A deep understanding of such basic properties is therefore essential and makes the role of theory crucial in this respect. Assessing the state of the art of the theoretical approaches to address excited-state properties of materials and establishing their link with the most recent experimental observations were the main goals of this workshop, which can be considered successfully achieved. Continue reading Scientific report on “HoW exciting! Workshop on excitations in solids Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin”, Berlin, Germany August 3 – 11, 2016 →