Dear all,

the 21st International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods (11-13 January 2023) will be live-streamed on the Youtube channel of ICTP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qULyb6jB9AA&list=PLYc-eBoIpXTLt6UzzxcUgHpdTJg0j34Yy

The list of confirmed invited speakers includes:

Nong ARTHRITH, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Thomas AYRAL, Atos Quantum Lab, France

Fabien BRUNEVAL, CEA, France

Michele CASULA, Sorbonne University, France

Cyrus DREYER, Stony Brook University and Flatiron Institute, USA

Andrea FERRETTI, CNR, Italy

Marina FILIP, University of Oxford, UK

Giulia GALLI, University of Chicago, USA

Anita HALDER, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Estelle INACK, Perimeter Institute, Canada

Zhi LI, ICTP, Italy

Johannes LISCHNER, Imperial College London, UK

Francesco MACHEDA, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy

Subhasish MANDAL, West Virginia University, USA

Antimo MARRAZZO, University of Trieste, Italy

Stefano PITTALIS, CNR, Italy 

Laura RATCLIFF, University of Bristol, UK

Young-Woo SON, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Republic of Korea

Iurii TIMROV, EPFL, Switzerland

Sophie WEBER, ETH, Switzerland

More details and preliminary programme can be found here:

https://indico.ictp.it/event/10056/

The Workshop is organized by Silke Biermann (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris), Francesco Mauri (Universita` la Sapienza, Rome), Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta (S.N. Bose National Centre, Kolkata), and Nicola Seriani (ICTP).

The 'Total Energy' Workshop has been held traditionally in Trieste every two years since 1987. The aim is a critical discussion of methods and of possible
combinations and challenging applications. It has become one of the most popular regular events of the international ab-initio electronic structure
community. This event also has the ambition to reach out to countries where the electronic structure community is not traditionally as strong as in
Europe, the USA and Japan, in coherence with the missions of its traditional host institution, the ICTP.

The Workshop will also will also include the Award ceremony for the "Walter Kohn prize for quantum mechanical material modeling" (
https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/walter-kohn-prize.aspx), co-funded by ICTP and the Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation.

The Workshop is a CECAM Flagship Workshop, and is co-funded by Psi-k, by the CECAM-IT-SISSA-SNS node, and by the Quantum-ESPRESSO Foundation.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

Nicola Seriani