Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the symposium

Integrated computational materials engineering for design of new materials

which will be held at the DPG-Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Division in Regensburg (March 6 - 11 2016). The symposium will provide a platform for the scientists from the various communities who are using computational tools to predict materials with tailored properties. The enormous progress achieved in this field over the past few years is based on novel theoretical concepts, on highly efficient numerical implementations as well as on a huge increase in available computer power, providing completely new routes to design materials. The symposium will give an overview about recent developments and future challenges, and welcomes abstracts addressing:

•  Multiscale method developments and applications to real world materials
•  Materials discovery and design strategies
•  High throughput approaches, materials database frameworks
•  Coupling the various scales including error/sensitivity analysis
•  Emergence of materials properties/functionalities from fundamental properties
•  Connection to experimental approaches (benchmarks for theory, databases, etc.)

The invited speakers are:

• Christian Elsaesser (IWM Freiburg, Germany)
• Blazej Grabowski (MPIE, Deutschland)
• Thomas Hammerschmidt (ICAMS, Deutschland)
• Gregory B. Olson (QuesTek Innovations LLC, USA)
• Chris Wolverton (Northwestern University, USA)

To submit an abstract to the symposium (or any of the other MM-sessions) follow the link

- http://www.dpg-tagung.de/r16/submission.html?language=en
- Choose MM from the drop-down menu (“Chose one of the parts”) on the first page
- Choose Topical Session (Symposium der AGMM): Integrated computational materials engineering for design of new materials (or any of the other topics, if appropriate) from the drop down menu (“Chose one of the topics”) on the second page.

Information about the other topics covered within the Division of Metal- and Materials Physics (MM) at the DPG 2016 spring meeting is found at: http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/gliederung/fv/mm/themen.html?lang=en
Abstracts suitable to any of these topics are welcome.

The abstract submission closes on December 1, 2015.

With kind regards,
The Organizers
(Joerg Neugebauer and Ralf Drautz)