The workshop took place in April 2019 in Göttingen and brought together leading researchers who develop and apply machine learning methods with the common goal of determining the fundamental properties of “small” molecules, biomolecules, and materials. These properties include high-dimensional potential energy surfaces, atomic densities, and molecular properties, such as dipole moments and polarizabilities. Communities in the areas of materials, biomolecules, gas-phase molecules and complexes have formed over the past ten or so years and a major objective of the workshop was to bring these communities together to hear and learn from each other’s experience.
In 2018, the ETSF Young Researchers’ Meeting took place in Hamburg, Germany. The hottest summer in the history of Hamburg, the well prepared Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and more than sixty motivated researcher built the perfect frame
for a stimulating week full of science.
The Young Researchers’ Meeting (YRM) of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF) is an annual conference organized and attended exclusively by researchers without permanent position that work on state-of-the-art theoretical and computational methods for the study of electronic and optical properties of materials.
YRM is the place to present your work in progress, come up with new ideas and learn about others’ work in a friendly and open atmosphere. Master students, PhD students as well as young post-docs from all over Europe came together and discussed latest
advances in their fields. This year, talks at the YRM were 20 minutes, including 5 minutes of discussion. This gave everyone enough time to communicate his or her findings and receive feedback from other participants.
