We would like to encourage abstract contribution for talks at the  EMRS Fall 2018 Meeting - Symposium J: "Theory and simulation in physics for materials applications". The Symposium will take place in Warsaw, Poland, from September 17 to September 20. 

The recent experimental and technological advances have allowed for a better description of materials physical properties implying multiple technological applications. However, those advances also open multiple questions that require theoretical interpretations. The goal of symposium J is to present to European Materials Community the most recent advances in theoretical and simulation methods to characterize materials. Symposium J will provide a wide and unique state of the art overview on the theoretical methods used to describe and characterize materials properties. It aims at having equilibrated contributions from important researchers in the community and young researcher to favor discussions and exchange, and draw some perspectives on the next challenges in the field.

• methods and developments in first principle and semi-empirical methods
• graphene and 2D materials
• molecular electronics and spintronics, magnetism
• electronic transport and devices simulations, optical properties
• electron-phonon coupling, thermoelectricity
• metal/organic interfaces and framework
• biological molecules and QM/MM simulations
• thermodynamics
• renewable energies and storage
• mass and heat transport
• surfaces and interfaces
• disordered and hybrid organic-inorganic materials 

• Prof. Young-Han Shin (University of Ulsan, Dept of Physics, Ulsan, South Korea)
• Dr. Assil Bouzid (EPFL, Lausanne - Switzerland)
• Prof. Thomas Frederikssen (Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian, Spain)
• Dr. Carlo Massobrio (IPCMS, Strasbourg, France)
• Prof. Rafal Kozubski (Jagiellonian University, Solid States Physics Dpt., Krakow, Poland)
• Dr. Michal Hermanowicz (Poznan University of Technology, Institute of Physics, Poznan, Poland)

In order to attract a wide range of talented researchers, and in particular young researchers, we will also select more invited talks among the best-submitted abstracts.