Summer School on Computational Materials Sciences
Workshops
- When
- 2010/06/28 - 2010/07/03
- Place
- Miramar Palace, San Sebastian, Spain
- Organizers
- Igor Abrikosov, Joerg Neugebauer, Andrés Ayuela, Pepa Cabrera-Sanfelix
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28th June – 3th July 2010, Miramar Palace, San Sebastian, Spain
Tentative List of speakers
D. Alfe, UCL London, UK
J. A. Alonso, University of Valladolid (UVA), Valladolid, Spain
M. Asta, UC Davis, CA, USA
K. Burke, UC Irvine, CA, USA
R. Diez-Muiño, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), CFM-UPV/EHU, San Sebastián, Spain
R. Drautz, ICAMS, Bochum, Germany
S. L. Dudarev, UKAEA Euratom Fus Assoc, UK
C. Freysoldt, Max-Planck-Institut, Düsseldorf, Germany
A. George, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
A. Hartmeier, ICAMS, Bochum, Germany
T. Hickel, Max-Planck-Institut, Düsseldorf, Germany
P. Korzhavyi, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
P. Ordejón, Centre d`Investigació en Nanociéncia i Nanotecnología (CIN2), Barcelona, Spain
V. Ozolins, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
J. von Pezold, Max-Planck-Institut, Düsseldorf, Germany
P. Rinke, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany
A. Ruban, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
D. Sanchez-Portal, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), CFM-UPV/EHU, San Sebastián, Spain
S. I. Simak, Linköping University, Sweden
C. van de Walle, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Location: Miramar Palace, San Sebastián, Spain
San Sebastián is a major tourist destination and it is overcrowded in summertime. It is located in the northeast of the Spanish Basque Country (110 km from Bilbao, 500 km from Madrid and 800 km from Paris). It is set in beautiful countryside, on the edge of the Biscay Gulf and is surrounded by mountains.
San Sebastián is a very beautiful city with three beaches and many interesting places to visit. In the city, and especially the Old Part (historical centre) there is a large variety of bars and restaurants where you can find Basque specialities.
More about tourist information in San Sebastián.
The conference will be held at Palacio Miramar within the summer UPV/EHU.
Description
The Summer School on Computational Materials Sciences aims at the identification and promotion of the common elements developed in theoretical and computational studies of materials properties across materials types, metals, ceramics, materials for new energy technologies, electronic materials and minerals. To accomplish this goal, the School brings together leading experts from a wide spectrum of materials simulations including theory, modeling, and computation, engaged in the study of a broad range of materials properties.
Therefore, this School provides a forum for exposing young researchers and students to most recent state-of-the-art theoretical and computational developments in studying, understanding, and predicting the properties of materials. Also, the School encourages interdisciplinary contributions, such as between the fields of condensed matter physics and applied materials sciences, chemistry, metallurgy, etc.
The emphasis of the School on Computational Materials Sciences will be on attracting scientists, students, and young researchers in the fields of basic science, e.g., electronic structure and related properties, assessing alloy phase diagrams, semiconductor physics, mineral science, and phenomenology. The emphasis on cross-fertilization of subject matter and the interdisciplinary character of the presentations make this meeting unique.
The proposed conference is organized in collaboration between CECAM, Psi-k, and DIPC to be held at Miramar Palace (UPV/EHU) in San Sebastián (Spain). The Miramar Palace is a historical place build in 1893 on behalf of the Royal Family of the Kingdom of Spain. The magnificent palace complex, with its park, several buildings and outbuildings, is a quintessential summer place and its location at the bay Bahía de La Concha guarantees the most spectacular views on San Sebastian.
The call for participation will be mainly directed to students young researches and scientists specialized on computational physics. We will limit the number of participants to 70, in order to ensure a maximum interaction between all the scientists participating. Attendance of graduate students and postdocs will be strongly encouraged through the inclusion of a poster session.
Scientific Objetives
Accelerated by the rapid progress in computer technologies, the electronic structure theory has become a mature field of modern condensed matter physics. Today it allows one to obtain reliable predictions for the thermodynamic, mechanical, electrical and magnetic properties of metals, semiconductors or insulators without any adjustable parameters fitted to experiments. The theory is now employed not only by physicists, but also by materials scientists, chemists, geophysicists, biophysicists, metallurgist, and in other scientific fields. The basic research is often strongly motivated by practical applications, and many problems considered by condensed matter theoreticians nowadays originate from interdisciplinary contacts and directly from industry.
In particular, the corner stone for the electronic structure theory of solids is the Bloch`s theorem. However, it is valid for systems with ideal three-dimensional periodicity. At the same time, almost all materials for technological applications have substantial deviations from this highly idealized model. The main goal of the School will be to introduce basic electronic structure theory for non-periodic solids, and present techniques to model their properties from the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics and statistical physics.
The scientific objetives of the Summer School are:
- To present more efficient techniques for solving the electronic structure problem within the local density - generalized gradient approximations of the density functional theory (DFT).
- To discuss about reliable tools and recent development on how to include and compute finite temperature contributions using DFT.
- To bring in electron correlations. For many realistic materials of technological importance it is crucial to employ novel many-body techniques which are able to overcome deficiencies of the semi-local DFT functionals. Fundamentals and recent developments of such novel many-body techniques will thus be covered by the School.
- To describe magnetism in many modern structural materials such as Fe-based alloys.
- To see structure-property relations in order to have accurate theoretical predictions toghether with efficient inverse optimization strategies.
Plan of Lectures
The basic purpose of the present School is to continue to break down communication barriers across the various materials related disciplines and to foster, promote, and enhance a concerted and unified theoretical approach to study of materials properties. Therefore, this School is intended to help practitioners, both experimentalists and theorists who are involved in studying complex inorganic solids and materials, to obtain first-hand information from the leading experts in the respective field. This will enhance their own perspectives and horizons as well as those of their colleagues.
See previous List of Tentative speakers (here)
Students
It is our vision that promoting such an integrated approach to materials science at the level of young researchers will have important and welcome consequences. It will provide a healthy response to the present and rapidly changing situation in theory, where new and exciting areas of scientific inquiry become more and more evident. It may open the possibility to apply methods and techniques established in one field to a different one, thus opening the door for innovative funding proposals. The young materials scientist, metallurgist, solid state physicist, mineralogist, and chemist will clearly benefit from the School.
A number of grants covering conferencee fee and/or local expenses is available, and we ask student to apply for it it necessary.
Contact
Secretariat Email: cms10@ehu.es
Tel: +34 943 01 8416
Contact
Secretariat Email: cms10@ehu.es
Tel: +34 943 01 8416
REGISTRATION
Registration is now closed.
Abstract submission for poster contributions is closed.
** If you require special diet (vegetarians,...) please contact the mail: cms10@ehu.es
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
The Scientific Program will consist of basic and master classes of 45 and 90 minutes respectively (including discussion). Program Schedule and Book of abstracts.
ABSTRACTS (Submittion close)
A short talk of three to five minutes will be required from all the participants presenting a poster. Please bring with you your poster introduction in a USB device (three slides max.). If you want to know in advance the order of the presentations please look it up in the book of abstracts (link above).
(The maximum size of the PORTRAIT panel to hold the posters is 170cm height and 100cm width.)
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
The Scientific Program will consist of basic and master classes of 45 and 90 minutes respectively (including discussion). Program Schedule and Book of abstracts.
ABSTRACTS (Submittion close)
A short talk of three to five minutes will be required from all the participants presenting a poster. Please bring with you your poster introduction in a USB device (three slides max.). If you want to know in advance the order or presentations look in the book of abstracts above.
(The maximum size of the PORTRAIT panel to hold the posters is 170cm height and 100cm width.)