[Pw_forum] São Paulo ICTP/TWAS Advanced School on Computational Materials Science

[Sandro Scandolo]

DEADLINE APPROACHING (15 JULY)!!


São Paulo ICTP/TWAS Advanced School on Computational Materials Science
for Energy and Environmental Applications

5 – 16 September 2011
(Santo Andre' - Brazil)

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics is
organizing in collaboration with the  Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do
Estado de São Paulo, Brazil (FAPESP), the Universidade Federal do ABC
(UFABC), the CNR-IOM Democritos Simulation Center, Trieste, and the
Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) an Advanced School
on Computational Materials Science for Energy and Environmental
Applications to be held in Santo André, Brazil from 5 to 16 September
2011.

The necessity to satisfy environmentally friendly the demand of energy
in the World has lead to increasing interest in the use of renewable
and clean sources of energy. At the same time, new sources and
methodologies are needed to efficiently explore alternative fossil
fuels and biofuels. These energy and environmental issues are
particularly important for Latin America and Africa continents due to
the technological gap, specially the use of hydrogen and solar energy.
In addition, advanced technologies are needed to better explore oil
and biofuel resources, in which Latin America and Africa, are large
producers, in particular Brazil. The School will provide an overview
on the advanced computational methods to address the problem of
materials for energy and environmental applications. Topics will
include: Functionals development and modeling dispersion forces,
Electrical and thermal transport, Large scale DFT and TDDFT,
Interatomic potentials development, Integrated and Multi-scale
modeling, Theoretical spectroscopy, Ab-initio thermodynamics,
Catalysis and Materials for energy and environmental applications.

The School will include a series of advanced talks covering the latest
developments as well as a series of hands-on tutorials based on public
license computer codes, high-performance computing and classical
molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo codes.

Applicants from all countries that are members of the United Nations,
UNESCO or IAEA may attend. As the Workshop will be conducted in
English, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of
this language. Limited funds are available for participants who are
not more than 45 years old. Such support is available only to those
attending the entire activity. There is no registration fee.

HOW TO APPLY FOR PARTICIPATION
The Online Application can be accessed at the activity website:
http://agenda.ictp.it/smr.php?2277.
Comprehensive instructions will guide you step-by-step on how to fill
out and submit the application form. Kindly send all file attachments
in Word or Acrobat format.

Secretariat: Ms. Rosa del Rio (smr 2277)
the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Strada Costiera 11 - 34151 Trieste, Italy
Telephone: +39-040-2240396 - Telefax: +39-040-22407396
E-mail:smr2277 at ictp.it
http://agenda.ictp.it/smr.php?2277

Application DEADLINES:
19 June 2011 (if requiring Visa)
or 15 July 2011 (if not requiring Visa)

Directors
Edison Zacarias da Silva
Layla Martin-Samos
Caetano Rodriques Miranda
Sandro Scandolo

Lecturers include
Alex Antonelli (Unicamp - Brazil)
Francesca Baletto(Kings College - UK)
Ângela Burlamaqui Klautau (UFPA - Brazil)
Giovani Bussi(SISSA - Italy)
Marilia Caldas (USP – Brazil)
Rodrigo Capaz (UFRJ - Brazil)
Klaus Capelle (UFABC - Brazil)
Roberto Car (Princeton -USA
Juarez L. F. da Silva (USP-SC - Brazil)
Maurice de Koning (Unicamp - Brazil
Stefano de Gironcoli (Democritos - Italy)
Rex W. Godby (York – UK)
Stefano Fabris (Democritos - Italy)
Adalberto Fazzio (USP - Brazil)
Ralph Gebauer (ICTP - Italy)
Alexandre Leitão (UFJF - Brazil)
Andrea Marini (Roma “Tor Vergata" - Italy)
Layla Martin Samos (Democritos - Italy)
Nicola Marzari (Oxford - UK)
Caetano R. Miranda(UFABC - Brazil)
Pablo Ordejon (CSIC-ICN-Spain)
Helena Petrilli (USP – Brazil)
Alexandre Reyle (UFABC - Brazil)
Matthias Scheffler (FHI - Germany
Damián Scherlis Perel (UBA - Argentina)
Paolo Umari(Democritos - Italy)
Pedro Venezuela(UFF-Brazil)
Renata Wentzcovitch (Minnesota) - USA



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