Dear Colleagues,

    Let me kindly bring into your attention the

Ulam Computer Simulations (UCS) Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Molecular Simulations

of the soft matter, http://icmp.lviv.ua/ucsw2017, that will take place on June 21-24, 2017 in Lviv (Ukraine) and is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the invention of Monte Carlo method.

    One of the key figures in this invention was Stanislaw Ulam, who was born here in Lviv (Lemberg), at that time the capital city of province Galicia in Austro-Hungarian Empire, while when Ulam graduated from the local Polytechnic University in 1930, the city of Lwów belonged to Poland.

    Nowadays, Lviv is an important educational and scientific center of Western Ukraine with its "Ensemble of the Historic Centre" enlisted among the UNESCO World Heritage sites. Relating to the UCS workshop, it is in Lviv where you will find the famous Scottish Cafe (https://thatsmaths.com/2015/03/05/cafe-mathematics-in-lvov/) from where the legendary Scottish Book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Book) prepared by Ulam was originated.

    The dinner on Thursday, June 22nd, is planned to be in Szkocka Restaurant where the original Scottish Cafe was located.

    The invited speakers of the UCS workshop are: Giovanni Ciccotti (Rome), Daan Frenkel (Cambridge), Joachim Gross (Stuttgart), Gerhard Kahl (Vienna), Karel Prochazka (Prague), Ari Paavo Seitsonen (Paris), Eckhard Spohr (Essen), David Kofke (Buffalo) and Ilja Siepmann (Minneapolis).

    The tentative timetable of the UCS workshop as well as the titles/abstracts of the keynote talks can be found at http://icmp.lviv.ua/ucsw2017/program.html

    As you will find from the timetable, there will be workshop opening at the late afternoon of the first day, June 21st, and then two fully working days on June 22nd and 23rd. Besides the invited lectures, these two days include 24 short communications that will be selected by the Organisers among those submitted during the online registration at the workshop webpage http://icmp.lviv.ua/ucsw2017/registration.html

    The workshop opening on June 21st will be held in the conference hall, where in 1932 Ulam has presented his PhD thesis.

    Finally, I wish to turn your attention to the initial deadline for registration - March 31, that will expire in few days.

    Sincerely Yours,

       Andrij Trokhymchuk, UCS Workshop Chair