Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the following Workshop on "Modern Approaches to Coupling Scales In Materials Simulations: From Electronic Structure to Applications via Coarse Graining and Machine Learning" to be held in Lenggries, Bavaria, Germany from 2^nd to 4^th of July 2018.

The workshop will cover current research in multiscale simulation, with a focus on how empirical, coarse-grained or continuum models can be constructed from first-principles calculations. Registration is now open for contributed oral or poster presentations. To apply, send an abstract to harald.oberhofer(at)tum.de or johannes.margraf(at)tum.de. The conference fee is 200€, accommodation not included. Limited financial support for doctoral students is available upon request.

Topics covered:

• Empirical and machine-learning potentials from first-principles calculations
• From electronic structure to macroscopic observables
• Multiscale and embedding techniques in first-principles approaches 

Confirmed speakers:

• Jörg Behler (Göttingen)
• Tristan Bereau (MPI Mainz)
• Jochen Blumberger (London)
• Tim Clark (Erlangen)
• Volker Deringer (Cambridge)
• Pavlo Dral (MPI Mühlheim)
• Thomas Hammerschmidt (Bochum)
• Bernd Hartke (Kiel)
• Anatole von Lilienfeld (Basel)
• Andrew Logsdail (Cardiff)
• Noa Marom (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Sebastian Matera (Berlin)
• Bernd Meyer (Erlangen)
• Thomas Miller III (Caltech)
• Karsten Reuter (TUM)
• Patrick Rinke (Aalto)
• Matthias Rupp (Berlin)
• Milica Todorovic (Aalto)

Further information can be found on the conference website macsims.ch.tum.de.

The organisers,

Johannes Margraf and Harald Oberhofer