Dear Colleagues

For the second time in the history of the VASP code, the VASP training school will be held in France, at the “Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes" (ISCR) from Wednesday, August 31th to Saturday, September 3rd, 2016. In connection to this event, the fourth edition of the International Conference on Advanced Materials Modelling (ICAMM) will be held at the same place from Monday, September 5th to Wednesday, September 7th, 2016. For our Sunday activity we are pleased to propose an excursion to beautiful places nearby Rennes (visit of Saint-Malo and Mont Saint-Michel are planned).

Confirmed invited speakers:
- Prof. Peter Blaha, TU Vienna, Institute of Materials Chemistry, Austria
- Prof. Jeroen van den Brink, University of Dresden, Germany
- Prof. Xavier Gonze, University of Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
- Prof. Georg Kresse, University of Vienna, Austria
- Prof. Ingrid Mertig, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
- Prof. Silvia Picozzi, CNR-SPIN, UOS L'Aquila, Italy
- Prof. Kazu Suenaga, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
- Dr. Lionel Truflandier, Université de Bordeaux, ISM, France
- Prof. Anton Van der Ven, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Prof. Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Prof. Alex Zunger, University of Colorado, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, USA

The VASP training school lasts for 4 days (Wednesday till Saturday) and the ICAMM conference for 3 days (Monday to Wednesday). The training school and conference fees include daily lunch and coffee breaks. The VASP welcome party and ICAMM conference dinner are also included in the fees.
Registration fees are as follows:

The registration fee is significantly reduced for participants attending both meetings (550 € instead of 800€). Additionally, thanks to ours sponsors scholarships (250 €) supporting student (PhD and postdoc) participation will be available (about 20 to 40 scholarship), leading to significantly reduced fees for the selected participants (300 € for VASP+ICAMM, 200 € for ICAMM only, 100 € for VASP only).

Important dates:
May 1, 2016: Short abstract submission deadline for ICAMM 2016 conference, student bursary application deadline.
May 30, 2016: Notification to the authors of the acceptance and mode of presentation of their communications for ICAMM 2016 conference.
July 1, 2016: Registration deadline for VASP training school. Early fee registration deadline and extended abstract submission deadline for ICAMM conference.
August 20, 2016: Registration deadline for ICAMM conference.

More details about these two events could be found in the attached document and on the website:

http://icamm2016.sciencesconf.org/.

We look forward to meeting you in Rennes,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, ICAMM-2016

Xavier Rocquefelte
Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR) – UMR CNRS 6226, France
https://iscr.univ-rennes1.fr/cti/