The aim of the workshop consists in bringing together knowledge and experiences gained by leading scientists active in the field of modeling of the structural, electronic, energetic and reactive properties of carbon and inorganic nanotubes and nanostructures.

The workshop focuses on computational approaches for modeling of carbon and inorganic nanostructures and their properties, with particular emphasis to tubular nanostructures and their functionalization processes.

Topics to be covered within the workshop include:

• Electronic structure methods in the simulation of the electronic, optical and magnetic properties and functionalization of low-dimensional nanostructures;
  
• Theoretical investigations on the basic properties of functionalized nanotubes and nanostructures;
  
• Modeling of functionalized nanotubes and nanostructures for technological applications (gas sensing, energy storage, electron transport, etc.);
  
• Simulation of nanotubes and nanostructures in realistic environments (e.g. solution, solid state, etc.);
  
• Development of new materials with interesting properties and prediction of new structures;
  
• Modeling of hybrid carbon/inorganic tubular nanostructures;
  
• Advances in modelization and computational techniques for nanotubes and related structures;
  
• High-performance computing and grid-computing techniques applied to the study of nanotubes and low-dimensional nanostructures.

• Maya Bar-Sadan (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
  
Vladimir Basiuk (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

• Savas Berber (Gebze Institute of Technology, Turkey)
  
• Holger F. Bettinger (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
  
• Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (North Carolina State University, USA)
  
• Jean-Christophe Charlier (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
  
• Vincent Crespi (Penn State University, USA)
  
• Andreia da Rosa (University of Bremen, Germany)
  
• George Froudakis (University of Crete, Greece)
  
• Sara Furlan (University of Udine, Italy)
  
• Jennifer Green (University of Oxford, UK)
  
• Arkady Krasheninnikov (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  
• Mikko Linnolahti (University of Joensuu, Finland)
  
• Santiago Melchor (University of Granada, Spain)
  
• Yoshiyuki Miyamoto (NEC Corporation, Japan)
  
• Risto Nieminen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  
• Pablo Ordejon (CIN2 (CSIC-ICN), Spain
  
• Angel Rubio (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain)
  
• Gustavo Scuseria (Rice University, USA)
  
• Daniel Sebastiani (Max-Planck-Institut Mainz, Germany)
  
• David Tomanek (Michigan State University, USA)