Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for possible cross-posting.

This is to announce the CECAM / Psi-k funded "7th International School and Workshop on Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and Applications" which will be held September 12th - September 23rd, 2016, at the beautiful Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual (Benasque, Spain; http://benasque.org/)

Please see http://www.benasque.org/2016tddft/ for details, and read more below!

Summary:

This School & Workshop is the seventh of a very successful series that started in 2004. The positive response to this first event, also held in the “Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual”, from August 28th to September 12th 2004, encouraged the organization of the sequels in the same place with an approximate periodicity of two years. The purpose has in all occasions been to (1) make a very intense introduction to both the theory, the practice, and the numerical implementation of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT), mainly (but not exclusively) oriented to young scientists willing to initiate or strengthen their knowledge and skills on TDDFT, followed by (2) a workshop on the subject in which all the main aspects are to be covered by the leading experts. All the students of the school are expected to participate in the workshop, in order to learn about the state-of-the-art of the subject, after being exposed to the fundamentals. Since TDDFT is a rapidly evolving field of Science, the precise content of both school and workshop have changed over the years –although the format of the events has been largely unaltered.

In all occasions there has been a very large number of applicants for the school, that has increased every edition to become more than 150. This is not only a testimony of the strong pulse of the scientific field itself, but also of the good quality of the school. Since we want to maximize the learning experience of the students via a close interaction with the teachers (and also due to the logistic limitations imposed by the hands-on tutorial), the participants of the school will not exceed 40. The total number of participants in the full School & Workshop has been close to 100 in all occasions. It is worth mentioning that participants came from all over the world, making this series of schools and workshops a truly global event.

Location/Timing:

This event will take place at the “Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual”, Benasque, Spain (http://benasque.org/), from September 12th -- 23rd, 2016 (travel to Benasque on the 11th). Benasque is a beautiful town in the heart of the Pyrenees. The school will take place from September 12th to September 19th, while the workshop will be from September 20th to September 23rd.

Participants

The call for participation will be mainly directed to students and scientists specialized on computational physics, quantum chemistry and biophysics. We call for students willing to participate at the School (and attend the workshop), and for scientists willing to present a contributed talk or poster at the Workshop. We will limit the number of students to the school to 40 and participants to the workshop to less than 100, in order to ensure a maximum interaction between all the scientists participating. Attendance of graduate students and post-docs will be strongly encouraged through the inclusion of short contributed talks and a poster session. Furthermore, we will award to PhD students who present an outstanding poster short oral presentations.

Applications/Support:

All persons who wish to participate should fill out the application form at: 

http://benasque.org/2016tddft/ 

In the comments section, please indicate if you wish to participate in the Summer Summer School or in the Workshop (or in both). For participants coming from the USA, please check the following address for support: http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/

School only:

As we have a very limited number of places for the school, students will be selected from among an open pool of applicants who have demonstrated a strong interest in computational sciences, applied to chemistry, physics, materials science and biology. Therefore, in order that we can make a reasonable selection, we ask that *all* candidates include in the comments section the following information:

*) Date of birth, gender

*) Motivation/Why they want to come (just a couple of lines is enough)

*) What is their current and previous positions (if PhD or Post-doc state your supervisor).

We will *not* accept applications that do not include this information. Furthermore, we will give priority to students willing to participate in both the Summer School and the Workshop. We also have a very limited number of grants available that cover traveling and part of the stay in Benasque. If you want to apply for a grant, please indicate explicitly that you wish to be supported in the comments section, and explain why (just a couple of lines is enough).

Organizers:

A. Castro [ARAID Foundation - Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain]

E. K. U. Gross [Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Halle, Germany]

N. Maitra [Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA]

F. Nogueira [Dep. de Física, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra and Centro de Fisica Computacional, Coimbra, Portugal]

A. Rubio [Max-Planck-Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Hamburg, Germany), and Dpto. Fisica de Materiales, Facultad de Quimicas]

U. Pais Vasco, (Sebastian/Donostia, Spain).