As in previous years, we would like to encourage all Psi-k members to attend the annual “Spring Meeting” of the German Physical Society, held in Dresden, March 19-24, 2017.

With more than 6.000 expected participants this is by far the largest European physics conference, covering all aspects of condensed-matter and materials physics, including surface science, magnetism, soft and biological matter, and more. The conference language is English.

This year’s meeting will feature a symposium of special interest to the Psi-k community:

Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory: New Concepts and Developments in Density Functional Theory and Beyond

While the invited lectures will have a focus on new concepts and developments in DFT,
the symposium will cover the general field of computational materials and electronic structure theory. Thus, everybody in the Psi-k community is invited to attend the symposium and to submit an abstract, either for a contributed talk or a poster.

Invited Speakers at the symposium include:

• Arun Bansil (Northeastern University, Boston, USA)
• Kieron Burke (University of California, Irvine, USA)
• Paola Gori-Giorgi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Neepa Maitra (Hunter College of the City University of New York, USA)
• Andreas Savin (CNRS, Paris, France)
• Kristian S. Thygesen (Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark)
• Weitao Yang (Duke University, Durham, USA)
• Igor Ying Zhang (Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany)

Find more information here: http://th.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/meetings/DPGSym2017/

Due to the large size of the meeting, early registration and accommodation reservation is strongly encouraged. The deadline for abstract submission is December 1, 2016. The website for abstract submission for the DPG Spring Meeting is: http://dresden17.dpg-tagungen.de/programm/abstract.html. To submit an abstract for this symposium, choose “O: Surface science division”, and later, as topic: “Focus Session: Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory: New Concepts and Developments in Density Functional Theory and Beyond”.

Best regards,

Hanna Krauter
On behalf of the organizers of the symposium

John Perdew, Angel Rubio, and Matthias Scheffler