Past events

The 25th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Dr. Darío Gil, Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research on "The Era of Accelerated Materials Discovery".

Applications are now open for the first ever Quantum Computing Hard- and Software Summer School 2021, sponsored by MARVEL and ETHZ-EPFL.

The topic of this school is the path integral approach to quantum mechanics, which is one of the most computationally efficient methodologies for modeling quantum nuclear effects such as tunneling, delocalization, and zero-point fluctuations. 

The MARVEL Junior Seminar series is continuing in videoconferencing mode. We are therefore pleased to propose the 42nd MARVEL Junior Seminar: Deb Sankar De (Uni Basel) and Fatmah Ebrahim (LSMO, EPFL) will present their research. The seminar will be chaired by Michele Kotiuga (THEOS, EPFL).

In this THEOS-MARVEL seminar, Prof. David O'Regan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)  will address "The partner of the Hubbard U: interpretation of Hund’s J in DFT+U methods, linear-response calculations for J, and the results to expect".

Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge) and Tony Ladd (University of Florida) will give a joint lecture in what will be the fourth event in the series "Classics in molecular and materials modelling" hosted by CECAM and MARVEL.

The 24th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Georg Kresse, Professor of Computational Materials Physics at the University of Vienna – with a talk entitled: "Finite temperature properties with first principles accuracy, is machine learning the way to go?"

The 23rd NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Kristin Persson, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California Berkeley (USA) on "The Era of Data-Driven Materials Innovation and Design".

The sixth MARVEL site visit will take place online on April 19-20, 2021. At this occasion, the Review Panel —international board of evaluation of the NCCR MARVEL — will meet the members of the project. 

The MARVEL Junior Seminar series is continuing in videoconferencing mode. We are therefore pleased to propose the 41st MARVEL Junior Seminar: Michele Kotiuga (THEOS, EPFL) and Sergi Vela (LCMD, EPFL) will present their research. The seminar will be chaired by Max Veit (COSMO, EPFL).

David Vanderbilt (Rutgers University) and Raffaele Resta (IOM-CNR Democritos, Trieste) will give a joint lecture on "Berry phases in condensed matter physics", in what will be the third event in the series "Classics in molecular and materials modelling" hosted by CECAM and MARVEL.

Fix the leaky pipeline! — Kick off event 2021 — Save the date!!! Tuesday, 16 March 2021 — online.