Start Time:

13 January 2005 at 08:00

Ends On:

15 January 2005

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

MB (MLH)

Organizer(s):

G. Galli, E. Artacho, A. Dal Corso

Description:

This Workshop will follow the series started in Oxford (1983) and continued in Braunschweig (1984) and in Trieste (1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003). Following the tradition of the previous meetings, the Workshop will be devoted to recent advances in computational condensed matter physics, based on realistic calculations of the electronic structure of polyatomic systems.

The activity will be held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, from 13 to 15 January 2005 with the co-sponsorship of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), INFM DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center, European Science Foundation\'s Psi-k Programme , Materials Computation Center (UIUC), Travel Program for Young Scientists and of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

As in previous events of this series, the Workshop will consist of invited talks with ample space devoted to discussion.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

G. Galli, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA --- e-mail: galligygi1@llnl.gov
E. Artacho, University of Cambridge, UK --- e-mail: emilio@esc.cam.ac.uk
A. Dal Corso, SISSA and DEMOCRITOS, Trieste, Italy --- e-mail: dalcorso@sissa.it


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

A. Baldereschi, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
S. Baroni, SISSA & DEMOCRITOS, Trieste, Italy
G. Galli, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
M. Gillan, University College of London, UK
X. Gonze, PCPM, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
E. Koch, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
J. Ihm , Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
S. Louie, University of California at Berkeley, USA
K. Kunc, CNRS, Univ. P. & M. Curie Paris, France
R. Needs, University of Cambridge, UK
P. Ordejon, ICMAB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
M. Parrinello, ETHZ & CSCS, Zürich, Switzerland
D. Vanderbilt, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE:

• Density-functional molecular dynamics
• Large-scale electronic structure
calculations
• Linear-scaling methods
• Density-functional theory beyond the
local-density approximation
• Quantum Monte Carlo
• Many-body techniques for real materials
• Multiple time and length scales in
computer simulations
• Relativistic effects in electronic structure
• Computer-science tools
• Applications to:
- Transition states and rates
- Non-equilibrium and non-adiabatic processes
- Electron dynamics and excited states (optical properties)
- Electric polarization, fields and currents
- Surfaces and other low-dimensional systems
- Phase transitions
- New materials
- Catalysis
- Core levels
- Geophysics
- Liquids
- Magnetism and spintronics
- Nanoscience (nanotribology, transport in nanostructures)
- Biomolecular materials

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED POSTERS

During the activity there will be a Poster Session. Abstracts must be submitted to the Workshop Secretary, at the address indicated below. The deadline for receipt of contributed papers is 3 December 2004. The recommended format for the abstracts (including title, authors and abridged institutions) is 16 cm (wide) by 11 cm (high). Please send file attachments in PDF or RTF formats.

PARTICIPATION

Scientists from all countries that are members of the UN, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the Workshop. As the activity will be conducted in English, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of that language. As a rule, travel and subsistence expenses for the participants are borne by their home institutions. However, limited funds are available for some applicants who are nationals of, and working in, developing countries, to be selected by the organizers. As scarcity of funds allows travel to be granted only in a few exceptional cases, every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half-fare) from their home country. There is no registration fee to attend this activity.

The Request for Participation Forms can be downloaded from this WEB Page (see below).

THE CLOSING DATES FOR THE RECEIPT of requests for participation are:

- 15 OCTOBER 2004 (if requesting financial support and/or requiring visa - please use Form A)
- 15 NOVEMBER 2004 (if neither requesting financial support nor requiring visa; late requests may still be considered if received before 3 December 2004 - please use Form B)

The forms should be completed, signed and returned to:

SMR.1641 c/o Ms. N. Ivanissevich
the Abdus Salam ICTP
Strada Costiera, 11
I-34014 Trieste, Italy

or:
telefax to: +39-040-224163

or:
e-mail to: smr1641@ictp.trieste.it
(please send file attachments only in RTF or PDF formats)

US based scientists requesting travel support from the Materials Computation Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (www.mcc.uiuc.edu): please add a remark on the Application Form B indicating that you are applying for NSF funding (for more information, see below under: related links)

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