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<div class="moz-forward-container">Dear all,</div>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">this might be of interest to
many of you - David Vanderbilt and Raffaele Resta will present
two online live talks and an interview on "Berry phases in
condensed matter physics", on Mar 23 2021, at 3pm Central
European Time (for those in the US, note that the country will
be on summer time then, while Europe is still on winter time).</div>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">Happy viewing,</div>
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<div class="moz-forward-container"> nicola marzari</div>
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<h2>CECAM-MARVEL "Classics in molecular and materials modelling"</h2>
<p><span class="s1">In this series, organized jointly by <a
href="https://www.cecam.org/" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
class="s2">CECAM</span></a> (Centre Européen de Calcul
Atomique et Moléculaire) and the <a
href="https://nccr-marvel.ch/" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
class="s2">MARVEL</span></a> Center on Computational
Design and Discovery of Novel Materials, methods that have
become fundamental tools in computational physics and
chemistry will be presented by their originators at a level
appropriate for master and graduate students. The lectures
will be followed by an interview with the presenters: we’ll
ask them to recall for us the period, problems, people and
circumstances that accompanied the creation of milestone
methods and algorithms that we now routinely use. </span></p>
<p><span class="s1">We hope that you will be able to join us and
share with us this unusual and interesting opportunity to
learn first hand from pioneers who have contributed
significantly to our field and to get to know better the
history and anecdotes behind work that is now recorded in
books.</span></p>
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<p><span class="s1"><b>David Vanderbilt</b> (Rutgers University)
& <b>Raffaele Resta</b> (IOM-CNR Democritos, Trieste): <br>
</span><span class="s1"><i>Berry phases in condensed matter
physics<br>
</i></span><span class="s1">March 23, 2021 – 15:00-17:45 (CET)
[at this date, this is 10:00 EDT or 07:00 PDT]</span></p>
<p><span class="s3"><a href="https://epfl.zoom.us/j/83512387218"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://epfl.zoom.us/j/83512387218</a>
Passcode: 4628</span></p>
<p><span class="s1">15:00<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>–<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Introduction<br>
15:10<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>–<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Conceptual Aspects
of the Theory of Electric Polarization and Orbital
Magnetization (D. Vanderbilt)<br>
16:00<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>–<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Break<br>
16:10<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>–<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Electric
Polarization, Orbital Magnetization, and Other Geometrical
Observables (R. Resta)<br>
17:00<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>–<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Interview and
recollections<br>
17:45<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>–<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>End</span></p>
<p><span class="s3"><a
href="https://nccr-marvel.ch/events/classics-resta-vanderbilt"
moz-do-not-send="true">Abstracts and details</a></span></p>
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<p><span class="s1">Mark your calendars for the following event:</span></p>
<p><span class="s1"><b>Daan Frenkel</b> (University of Cambridge)
& <b>Tony Ladd</b> (University of Florida)<br>
</span><span class="s1">May 20, 2021 – 15:00-17:45 (CEST) [at
this date, this is 09:00 EDT or 06:00 PDT]</span></p>
<p><span class="s3"><a
href="https://nccr-marvel.ch/events/classics-frenkel-ladd"
moz-do-not-send="true">Details will be announced here</a></span></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><a
href="http://psi-k.net/events/cecam-marvel-classics-in-molecular-and-mate"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://psi-k.net/events/cecam-marvel-classics-in-molecular-and-mate</a></p>
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Prof Nicola Marzari, Chair of Theory and Simulation of Materials, EPFL
Director, National Centre for Competence in Research NCCR MARVEL, EPFL
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