We are pleased to announce the:

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. A significant gap exists between fundamental DFT researchers, who work on development of methodology, and applied DFT researchers trained in specific application areas. This gap will be addressed. Below is a list of the invited speakers whose research spans the spectrum from the development of DFT methods to the direct use of DFT to solve problems in materials science to the integration of DFT methods into multi-scale modeling involving theory, empirical force-field development, and simulations.

This school will bring together graduate students from the National Science Foundation CoMET research training program, along with US and European graduate students.

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/.

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)
• Claudia Draxl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
• Kristen Fichthorn (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Luca Ghiringhelli (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Germany)
• Paola Gori-Giorgi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Mike Janik (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Lasse Jensen (Pennsylvania State University,USA)
• Elisa Molinari (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Modena, Italy)
• John Perdew (Temple University, USA)
• Jim Pfaendtner (University of Washington, USA)
• Karsten Reuter (Technische Universität München, Germany)
• Angel Rubio (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany)
• Adrienn Ruzsinszky (Temple University, USA)
• Philippe Sautet (Université de Lyon, France)
• Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Germany)
• David Sholl (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Jorge Sofo (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Dominic Tildesley (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Alexandre Tkatchenko (University of Luxemburg)
• Adri van Duin (Pennsylvania State University, USA)