Current and Future Events

The MARVEL Industry Day will take place on September 5, 2024 at the Empa-Akademie in Dübendorf. The day-long workshop will bring together members of industry, academia, and public research institutions to discuss areas in which computer simulations can provide important insights to industry.  The workshop will include invited seminars from academic and industrial partners. The keynote presentation for the event will be given by Prof. Roberto Car from Princeton University. Speakers from companies such as IBM, BASF, Bosch, Microsoft, Schott and Beyond Gravity will present their outlook on how computer simulations can provide critical real-world insights to industry.

The sixth MARVEL Junior Retreat will take place from dinnertime September 10 until lunch on September 13, 2024. It will give PhD students and Postdocs involved in MARVEL groups the opportunity to interact, share their experiences, learn about each other’s research, start new collaborations and discuss various aspects that are relevant for young researchers. The focuses of this year’s MARVEL Junior Retreat are “entrepreneurship, technology transfer, intellectual property rights”.

The eleventh MARVEL Review and Retreat will take place on January 13-15, 2025. The event will gather all MARVEL members, group leaders as well as postdocs and students. Presentations will show to all the community where the projects stand and what are the next steps.