Second announcement:

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NSF/CECAM School on Computational Materials Science: From Basics to Applications
Lausanne, July 17, 2017 - July 27, 2017

http://th.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/meetings/SCMS2017/  

This school will cover the full range from fundamental concepts in density-functional theory (DFT) to its application in materials science. It will also have a noticeable “multiscale-modeling” and “big data analytics” component. The present list of invited speakers is given below, and more information (also on partial support) and application for registration can be found at the conference web site: http://th.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/meetings/SCMS2017/.

The school will bring together graduate students from the United States, through funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) research traineeship program for data-enabled science and engineering (NRT-DESE): "Computational Materials Education and Training: Bridging ab initio methods and applications (COMET)", with European students.

Note that the deadline for application is January 15, 2017!

We are looking forward to seeing you in Lausanne. 

With kind regards,

Kristen Fichthorn, Jorge Sofo, and Matthias Scheffler (the organizers)

Invited speakers

• Stefano Baroni (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy)
• Silke Biermann (École Polytechnique, France)
• Roberto Car (Princeton University, USA)
• Richard Catlow (University College London, UK)
• Michele Ceriotti (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Stefano Curtarolo (Duke University, USA)
• Gábor Csányi (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Cristiana Di Valentin* (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
• Claudia Draxl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
• Kristen Fichthorn (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Luca Ghiringhelli (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Germany)
• Paola Gori-Giorgi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Andreas Görling (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
• Mike Janik (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Lasse Jensen (Pennsylvania State University,USA)
• Ingrid Mertig* (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
• Elisa Molinari (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Modena, Italy)
• Jim Pfaendtner (University of Washington, USA)
• Stefano Piana (DE Shaw Research, USA)
• Peter Ravikovitch* (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, USA)
• Karsten Reuter (Technische Universität München, Germany)
• Angel Rubio (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany)
• Philippe Sautet (Université de Lyon, France; University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Germany)
• David Sholl (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Jorge Sofo (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Alexandre Tkatchenko (University Luxemburg)
• Adri van Duin (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Rebecca Willett* (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

* To be confirmed