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2010 Workshops


4th Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and Applications

Location : Benasque Center for Physics, Spain

January 9, 2010 - January 14, 2010

  • Miguel Marques
    CNRS-LPMCN and University of Lyon 1, France
  • E.K.U. Gross
    Free University Berlin, Germany
  • Angel Rubio
    Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
  • Fernando Nogueira
    University of Coimbra, Portugal
Aqueous Solvation of Ions

Location : CECAM-ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland

February 22, 2010 - February 24, 2010

  • Ari Paavo Seitsonen
    Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut der Universität Zürich, Switzerland
  • Rodolphe Vuilleumier
    Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
  • Kari Laasonen
    University of Oulu, Finland
  • Riccardo Spezia
    CNRS-LAMBE, Université d'Evry, France
Tensor network methods for quantum chemistry

Location : CECAM-ETHZ Hönggerberg Campus, Zurich, Switzerland

March 29, 2010 - March 31, 2010

  • Uli Schollwoeck
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
  • Frank Verstraete
    University of Vienna, Austria
  • Garnet Chan
    Cornell University, USA
  • Markus Reiher
    ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Interatomic potentials for transition metals and their compounds

Location : CECAM-ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland

April 12, 2010 - April 14, 2010

  • Matous Mrovec
    Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials, Freiburg, Germany
  • Peter Derlet
    Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
Materials Informatics: Tools for Design and Discovery

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

April 19, 2010 - April 21, 2010

  • James Chelikowsky
    University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • John Rodgers
    Innovative Materials Technologie, Canada
  • Yousef Saad
    University of Minnesota, USA
Materials Modelling in Nuclear Energy Environments: State of the Art and Beyond

Location : CECAM-ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland

April 26, 2010 - April 29, 2010

  • Maria Samaras
    Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
  • Roger Stoller
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
  • Robin Schaeublin
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Marjorie Bertolus
    CEA DEN, Cadarache, France
Stick-slip dynamics, from nano to geophysical scales

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

May 3, 2010 - May 5, 2010

  • Alberto Petri
    CNR - Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Roma, Italy
  • Andrea Vanossi
    International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
  • Michael Urbakh
    School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Molecular Simulation of Clathrate Hydrates

Location : ACAM, Dublin, Ireland

May 6, 2010 - May 8, 2010

  • Mark Rodger
    University of Warwick, United Kingdom
  • John Tse
    University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Niall English
    University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Gillian Davis
    ACAM University College Dublin, Ireland
Theoretical, Computational, and Experimental Challenges to Exploring Coherent Quantum Dynamics in Complex Many-Body Systems

Location : ACAM, Dublin, Ireland

May 9, 2010 - May 12, 2010

  • David Coker
    University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Donal Mackernan
    University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Raymond Kapral
    University of Toronto, Canada
  • Irene Burghardt
    Departement de Chimie, ENS Paris, France
  • Gillian Davis
    ACAM University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Eran Rabani
    University of Tel Aviv, Israel
Trends in computational hemodynamics

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

May 10, 2010 - May 12, 2010

  • Simone Melchionna
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Alfio Quarteroni
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Efthimios Kaxiras
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Quantum transport and dynamics in materials and biosystems: From molecular mechanisms to mesoscopic functionality

Location : ACAM, Dublin, Ireland

May 12, 2010 - May 15, 2010

  • Irene Burghardt
    Departement de Chimie, ENS Paris, France
  • Eric Bittner
    University of Houston, USA
  • Eran Rabani
    University of Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Giovanni Ciccotti
    Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Roma I, Italy
  • Gillian Davis
    ACAM University College Dublin, Ireland
Gas separation and gas storage using porous materials

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

May 17, 2010 - May 19, 2010

  • Loredana Valenzano
    University of Torino - Chemistry Department and NIS, Italy
  • Silvia Bordiga
    University of Torino - Chemistry Department and NIS, Italy
  • Carlos Otero Arean
    University of the Balearic Islands - Inorganic Chemistry Department, Spain
  • Claudio Marcelo Zicovich-Wilson
    Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos - Facultad de Ciencias, Mexico
Dynamic coarse-graining: Towards quantitative mesoscale modeling of complex fluids

Location : ACAM, Dublin, Ireland

May 19, 2010 - May 21, 2010

  • Vladimir Lobaskin
    University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Mikko Karttunen
    Dept. of Applied Mathematics, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
  • Pep Espańol
    Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
Theory of Magnetoelectrics: Fundamentals and Applications

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

May 26, 2010 - May 28, 2010

  • Massimiliano Stengel
    CECAM - EPFL, Switzerland
  • Jorge Iniguez
    Institut de Cičncia de Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB), Spain
Coarse-Grain Mechanics of DNA: Bases to Chromosomes

Location : Centre Blaise Pascal, ENS-Lyon, France

June 1, 2010 - June 4, 2010

  • Ralf Everaers
    École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
  • Helmut Schiessel
    Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • John H. Maddocks
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Electronic-structure challenges in materials modeling for energy applications

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

June 1, 2010 - June 4, 2010

  • Nicola Marzari
    Oxford University, United Kingdom
  • Angel Rubio
    University of the Basque Country, Spain
Advances in the Implementation of Polarizable Force Fields for Molecular Simulations

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

June 7, 2010 - June 9, 2010

  • Elvira Guardia
    Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Marco Masia
    Dipartimento di Chimica - Universita' di Sassari, Italy
Actinides: Correlated electrons and nuclear materials

Location : Ramada Manchester Piccadilly, UK

June 14, 2010 - June 16, 2010

  • Leon Petit
    Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
  • Bernard Amadon
    CEA-DIF, Bruyčres le Châtel, France
Quantum Monte Carlo meets Quantum Chemistry: new approaches for electron correlation

Location : CECAM-USI, Lugano, Switzerland

June 15, 2010 - June 18, 2010

  • Ali Alavi
    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Michele Casula
    Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
  • Sandro Sorella
    International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
Empirical methods in semiconductor nano-structures design and modelling

Location : University of Manchester, UK and ACAM, Dublin, Ireland

June 21, 2010 - June 25, 2010

  • Stanko Tomic
    STFC Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
  • Max Migliorato
    University of Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Eoin O'Reilly
    Tyndall National Institute at University College Cork, Ireland
  • Gyaneshwar Srivastava
    University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Transport Phenomena in Molecular Nanostructures

Location : CECAM-ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland

June 22, 2010 - June 25, 2010

  • Thomas Frederiksen
    DIPC - Donostia International Physics Center, Spain
  • Ferdinand Evers
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Kyungwha Park
    Virginia Tech, USA
Advances in Strong Field and Attosecond Physics

Location : University College London, UK

June 23, 2010 - June 25, 2010

  • Paul Durham
    STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Great Britain
  • Carla Faria
    Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, United Kingdom
  • Maciej Lewenstein
    Institute for Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
  • Jens Biegert
    Institute for Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
  • Wolfgang Sandner
    Max Born Institut, Berlin, Germany
  • Misha Ivanov
    Imperial College London, United Kingdom
van der Waals forces in DFT, RPA and beyond

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

June 28, 2010 - July 2, 2010

  • János G. Ángyán
    CRM2, CNRS & Nancy University, UMR 7036, France
  • John F. Dobson
    School of BPS, and Queensland Micro & Nano Technology Centre, Griffith University, Australia
  • Sebastien Lebegue
    CRM2, CNRS & Nancy University, UMR 7036, France
  • Andreas Savin
    Laboratoire de Chimie Theorique, CNRS et Universite Paris VI , France
Complex dynamics of fluids in disordered and crowded environments

Location : Centre Blaise Pascal, ENS-Lyon, France

June 28, 2010 - July 1, 2010

  • Vincent Krakoviack
    Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
  • Gerhard Kahl
    Technical University of Vienna, Austria
  • Daniele Coslovich
    Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Superconductivity in nanosized systems

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

July 5, 2010 - July 8, 2010

  • François Peeters
    University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • E.K.U. GROSS
    Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany
Ab Initio Electrochemistry

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

July 12, 2010 - July 14, 2010

  • Michiel Sprik
    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Marc Koper
    Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Mesoscale methods for colloidal hydrodynamics

Location : CECAM-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

July 19, 2010 - July 21, 2010

  • Ard A. Louis
    University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Marjolein Dijkstra
    Utrecht Universiy, The Netherlands
  • Erik Luijten
    Northwestern University, USA
Crystallisation: from colloids to pharmaceuticals

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

July 22, 2010 - July 24, 2010

  • Paddy Royall
    University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  • Richard Sear
    Department of Physics, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Computational Carbon Capture

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

July 26, 2010 - July 28, 2010

  • Smit Berend
    UC Berkeley, USA
  • Sofia Calero
    Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
  • Thijs J.H. Vlugt
    Delft University of Technology, Process & Energy Laboratory, The Netherlands
Titania for all seasons: Multifunctionality of an undercover semiconductor

Location : University of Bremen, Germany

September 6, 2010 - September 10, 2010

  • Thomas Frauenheim
    University of Bremen, Germany
  • Peter Deák
    University of Bremen, Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science , Germany
  • Alessio Gagliardi
    University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
  • Efthimios Kaxiras
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Annabella Selloni
    Princeton University, USA
Nanoscale alloys: from experiment and theory to quantitative modelling

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

September 13, 2010 - September 16, 2010

  • Florent Calvo
    CNRS and Lyon University, France
  • Gustavo M. Pastor
    Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, University of Kassel, Germany
  • Alessandro Fortunelli
    Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (IPCF) del CNR, Italy
Approximate Quantum-Methods: Advances, Challenges & Perspectives

Location : University of Bremen, Germany

September 20, 2010 - September 24, 2010

  • Thomas Frauenheim
    University of Bremen, Germany
  • Marcus Elstner
    Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
  • Gerald Monard
    Nancy University, France
  • Walter Thiel
    Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany
Protein Folding Dynamics: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Experiment

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

October 4, 2010 - October 7, 2010

  • Fabio Pietrucci
    CECAM-EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Ruhong Zhou
    IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Simulations and Experiments on Materials for Hydrogen Storage

Location : ACAM, Dublin, Ireland

October 11, 2010 - October 13, 2010

  • Simone Meloni
    CASPUR, Italy
  • Sara Bonella
    Dip. Di Fisica, Universita' di Roma , Italy
  • Greg Schenter
    Pacific Northwest National Laboraory, USA
Frontiers in Computational Astrophysics: Particles and Flames in Magnetic and Radiative Flows

Location : Centre Blaise Pascal, ENS-Lyon, France

October 11, 2010 - October 15, 2010

  • Jean-Piere Bertoglio
    Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
  • Rolf Walder
    Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
  • Baraffe Isabelle
    Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
  • Chabrier Gilles
    Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
  • Alexei M. Khokhlov
    University of Chicago, USA
  • Ewald Mueller
    Max Plank Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany, Germany
  • Richard Klein
    University of California, Berkeley, USA
Computational Mineral Physics: Applications to Geophysics

Location : CECAM-ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland

October 11, 2010 - October 15, 2010

  • Hans-Peter Bunge
    Munich University, Germany
  • Renata Wentzcovitch
    U of Minnesota, USA
  • Lapo Boschi
    Institut für Geophysik, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation : Bridging Scales and Disciplines

Location : Kartause Ittingen, Warth, Switzerland

October 20, 2010 - October 22, 2010

  • Petros Koumoutsakos
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland
  • Michele Parrinello
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Lugano, Switzerland
  • Efthimios Kaxiras
    Harvard University, USA
Multiscale modeling of lipid bilayers under equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

October 27, 2010 - October 29, 2010

  • Mikko Haataja
    Princeton University, USA
  • Julian Shillcock
    MEMPHYS - University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  • Markus Deserno
    MPIP Mainz, Germany
Adiabatic and non-adiabatic methods in quantum dynamics

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

November 1, 2010 - November 3, 2010

  • Ivano Tavernelli
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Irene Burghardt
    Departement de Chimie, ENS Paris, France
First Principles Theory and Modeling in Organic Electronics

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

January 31, 2011 - February 3, 2011

  • Annabella Selloni
    Princeton University, USA
  • Mina Yoon
    ORNL & FHI, Germany


2010 Tutorials


Linear-scaling density-functional theory with the ONETEP code

Location : University of Cambridge, UK

April 13, 2010 - April 16, 2010

  • Chris-Kriton Skylaris
    University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • Mike Payne
    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Nicholas Hine
    Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  • Peter Haynes
    Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  • Arash A. Mostofi
    Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Linear and non-linear responses of solids with the ABINIT software : phonons, electric fields, and other perturbations

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

April 26, 2010 - April 30, 2010

  • Razvan Caracas
    CNRS-ENS Lyon, France
  • Philippe Ghosez
    University of Liege, Belgium
  • Xavier Gonze
    Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Basic techniques and tools for development and maintenance of atomic-scale software

Location : Zaragoza, Spain

June 21, 2010 - June 25, 2010

  • Xavier Gonze
    Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Alberto Castro
    Institute for Biocomputation and Phyisics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Spain
  • Damien Caliste
    CEA Grenoble, France
  • Matthieu Verstraete
    Universite de Liege, Belgium, Belgium
  • Yann Pouillon
    Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Spain
  • Francesco Sottile
    Ecole Polytechnique, France
Summer school on atomistic simulation techniques for material science, nanotechnology and biophysics

Location : SISSA, Trieste, Italy

July 5, 2010 - July 23, 2010

  • Stefano de Gironcoli
    Scuola Internazionale di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy
  • Alessandro Laio
    SISSA, Italy
  • Paolo Carloni
    International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy
CCP5 Summer School in Molecular Simulation

Location : Queens University, Belfast, UK

July 18, 2010 - July 27, 2010

  • John Harding
    Sheffield University, United Kingdom
  • John Purton
    Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
  • Mario G. Del Popolo
    Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Computational spectroscopy using Quantum Espresso and related codes

Location : SISSA, Trieste, Italy

July 26, 2010 - July 30, 2010

  • Paolo Umari
    CNR-INFM DEMOCRITOS, Italy
  • Davide Ceresoli
    MIT, USA
  • David Prendergast
    The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Simulating strongly correlated systems

Location : CECAM-ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland

September 13, 2010 - September 17, 2010

  • Matthias Troyer
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland
  • Uli Schollwoeck
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
  • Andreas Läuchli
    MPI PKS Dresden, Germany
Free-energy calculations with PLUMED

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

September 28, 2010 - October 1, 2010

  • Fabio Pietrucci
    CECAM-EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Giovanni Bussi
    SISSA, Italy
  • Davide Branduardi
    Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Simulating Soft Matter with ESPResSo

Location : University of Stuttgart, Germany

October 11, 2010 - October 15, 2010

  • Hans-Jörg Limbach
    Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Christian Holm
    Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Arnold Axel
    Universität Stuttgart, Germany
HoW exciting! Hands-on workshop on excitations in solids employing the EXC!TiNG code

Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

November 11, 2010 - November 17, 2010

  • Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl
    University of Leoben, Austria
  • Clas Persson
    Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Jürgen Spitaler
    Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH, Austria


2010 Sponsored Events


Summer School and Tutorial on Computational Nanoscience

Location : International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

May 17, 2010 - May 28, 2010

  • Nicola Marzari
    Oxford University, United Kingdom
  • Sandro Scandolo
    The Abdus Salam ICTP, Italy
  • Adam Foster
    Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Summer School on Computational Materials Sciences

Location : Miramar Palace, San Sebastian, Spain

June 28, 2010 - July 3, 2010

  • Igor Abrikosov
    Linkoping University, Sweden
  • Joerg Neugebauer
    Direktor Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany
15th Nanoquanta/ETSF Workshop on Electronic Excitations: New frontiers in Theoretical Spectroscopy and Quantum Transport

Location : Berlin, Germany

October 11, 2010 - October 15, 2010

  • Patrick Rinke
    Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany
  • Ludger WIRTZ
    CNRS-IEMN and University of Lille, France
  • Valerio Olevano
    CNRS Institut Neel, Grenoble, France
  • Gian-Marco Rignanese
    Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Francesco Sottile
    Ecole Polytechnique, France


2010 Symposia


CECAM Symposium at Psi-k 2010: Strong correlation from first principles

Location : 2010 Psi-k Conference, Berlin, Germany

September 13, 2010 - September 16, 2010

  • Patrick Rinke
    Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany
  • Matthias Scheffler
    Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany
CECAM Symposium at Psi-k 2010: Catalysis from first principles - Energy conversion and storage

Location : 2010 Psi-k Conference, Berlin, Germany

September 13, 2010 - September 16, 2010

  • Thomas Bligaard
    Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  • Jan Rossmeisl
    Technical University of Denmark, Department of Physics, Denmark
  • stefano fabris
    INFM-CNR DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center, Italy
CECAM Symposium at Psi-k 2010: Organic Electronics for Energy Research

Location : 2010 Psi-k Conference, Berlin, Germany

September 13, 2010 - September 16, 2010

  • Mina Yoon
    ORNL & FHI, Germany
  • Annabella Selloni
    Princeton University, USA

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