[Pw_forum] Announcement - Trieste Total Energy Workshop, 11-13 January 2007

[Nicola Marzari]

Dear Colleague,

the 13th International Workshop on "Computational Physics
and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods"
will take place in Trieste (Italy), 11-13 January 2007.

More informations and application forms can be found at
http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?ida=a06178
http://www.democritos.it/events/totalenergy-XIII.php

The registration deadline has been postponed until 15 November
2006. There is no registration charge to attend the workshop,
but accommodation is provided on a first-registered basis.

The conference will last for three full days - invited speakers
are listed below. In addition, there will be three plenary lectures
from Federico Capasso (Harvard University), Marvin Cohen (University
of California, Berkeley), and Joshua Zak (Technion, Haifa), to
celebrate the 60th birthdays of Alfonso Baldereschi, Roberto Car,
and Raffaele Resta (Happy birthday(s) !).

The conference is supported by ICTP, Sissa, Democritos, and Psi-k.
US-based participants can apply for travel funding through the
Materials Computation Center (http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/travel/).

We look forward to seeing you in Trieste !

	Nicola Marzari, Pablo Ordejon, and Sandro Scandolo


[Invited Speakers - Trieste Total Energy 2007]

Igor A. Abrikosov (Linkopings University)
Hadi Akbarzadeh (Isfahan University of Technology)
Stefano Baroni (SISSA/Democritos)
Aitor Bergara (Universidad del Pais Vasco)
Stefan Bluegel (IFF Julich)
Fabien Bruneval (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Kieron Burke (UC Irvine)
Gerbrand Ceder (MIT)
David Ceperley (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
David Drabold (Ohio University)
Stefano de Gironcoli (SISSA/Democritos)
Alessandro De Vita (King's College, London)
Dario Estrin (*) (University of Buenos Aires)
Pablo Garcia Gonzales (UNED, Madrid)
Antoine Georges (*) (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Feliciano Giustino (University of California, Berkeley)
Xingao Gong (Fudan University)
Thomas Kuehne (ETH Zurich/USI Lugano)
Nicolas Lorente (Universite Paul Sabatier)
Bengt Lundqvist (Chalmers University)
Igor Mazin (Naval Research Laboratory)
Francesco Mauri (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)
Richard Needs (University of Cambridge)
Eva Pavarini (IFF Julich)
Patrick Rinke (Fritz-Haber Institute, Berlin)
Annabella Selloni (Princeton University)
Massimiliano Stengel (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Axel Svane (University of Aarhus)
Timo Thonhauser (Rutgers University/MIT)
Ilya Tokatly (*) (Erlangen/Nurnburg)	
Paolo Umari (Democritos)
Umesh Waghmare (JNCASR Bangalore)

(*) to be confirmed

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