Dear colleague,
 
We are pleased to announce that the symposium of "Recent Advances in Computer-Aided Materials Design” will be organized within the Materials Science and Technology 2017 Conference (MS&T17) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, from October 8 to October 12, 2017. Here, we would like to invite you to contribute to the symposium.
 
"Recent Advances in Computer-Aided Materials Design” is motivated by the rising role of advanced computational methods in materials discovery and design, as demonstrated by a variety of inspirational success stories in the last few years. We aim at providing a forum for theoretical/computational and experimental materials scientists from academia, industry, and national laboratories, to discuss the recent development, the potential integration, and the future outlook of advanced computational methods in materials design.

Our confirmed invited speakers are

1.  Stefan Goedecker (The University of Basel, Switzerland)
2.  Gyeong S. Hwang (The University of Texas, Austin, USA)
3.  Sergei V. Kalinin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
4.  SungWng Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
5. Zi-Kui Liu (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
6.  Krishna Rajan (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA)
7.  Rampi Ramprasad (The University of Connecticut, USA)
8.  Darrell Schlom (Cornell University, USA)
9.  Shual Shao (Louisiana State University, USA)
10.  Bobby Sumpter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
11. Ichiro Takeuchi (The University of Maryland, USA)
12. Blas Uberuaga (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
13. James Warren (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
14. Wolfgang Windl (Ohio State University, USA)

Deadline for abstract submission is March 15, 2017. More information of MS&T17, the symposium, and how to submit abstracts can be found at http://www.programmaster.org/MST17.

We hope very much that you will be able to join us, and look forward to seeing you in Pittsburgh in October 2017.
 
Best regards
Huan Tran (University of Connecticut), Ghanshyam Pilania (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Alexey Kolmogorov (Binghamton University), Mina Yoon (Oak Ridge National laboratory), and Son Hoang (University of Connecticut)