The workshop on Quantum Chemical Modeling of Solids with Computers: from Plane Waves to Local Structures (QuaCheSol) is accepted to take place in the frame of the ICCSA 2019 (19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications) to be held in Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia - July 1-4, 2019.
A Russian supercomputer company: T-platforms: https://t-platforms.ru/ which recently (2015) built the current supercomputer in Jülich - Germany (Jureca):

https://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/UK/EN/2017/2017-11-13-jureca-booster.html

agreed to support our workshop. All interested parties are welcome to take part in this event. To do so, you have to register at the website of the ICCSA conferences: ess.iccsa.org https://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/genphase0.py and then submit the abstract of your contribution to our workshop (detailed registration conditions are given at http://www.iccsa.org/registration-info ). The definite deadline is foreseen for March 20. I also would appreciate if you could inform people (either younger or well established colleagues) about the event and urge them to take part.

The accommodation. We are going to have the sessions at the Economics Department of the St Pete State University (Tavricheskaya, 21). See the picture attached: Unfortunately, it is not going to be Tavrichesky Palace shown there, but it is pretty close to it (shown by the arrow). It is advisable to book hotel rooms in advance (white nights is a high season in StPete) in the vicinity of our venue: https://www.google.com/maps/search/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8B/@59.9448327,30.3697043,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m8!2m7!3m6!1z0JPQvtGB0YLQuNC90LjRhtGL!2z0KLQsNCy0YDQuNGH0LXRgdC60LDRjyDRg9C7LiwgMjEsINCh0LDQvdC60YIt0J_QtdGC0LXRgNCx0YPRgNCzLCDQoNC-0YHRgdC40Y8sIDE5MTAxNQ!3s0x4696319a84ec523f:0xb7ac00fa37bffc72!4m2!1d30.378459!2d59.944833 That is it for the moment. The detailed info about the visa procedures is going to appear on the conference website soon. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.