Dear all,

the call is open for contributions for talks and posters for the on-line "International Workshop o Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods", to be held on-line with the technical support of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) on 23-25 February, 2021. The event will indicatively take place from 2 pm to 5 pm, Central European Time, to allow participation from many time zones. Beside three plenary talks by Michele Parrinello, Nicola Spaldin, and Alex Zunger, we plan to have 12 contributed talks, to be chosen among the applications, and 2 poster sessions. Deadline for the applications for talks and posters is January 15.

The link to apply is here:
http://indico.ictp.it/event/9510/

The Workshop is organized by Francesco Mauri (Universita` la Sapienza, Rome), Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta
(S.N. Bose National Centre, Kolkata), and myself.

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. In these strange times, we had the feeling that it is important to keep our community together and to continue exchange information on exciting developments in our field. For this reason, we decided to opt for an on-line "micro" version of this workshop, which has been for decades an essential place for meeting and discussion.

On behalf of the organizing committee

Nicola Seriani
ICTP