Psi-k 2025 conference

Aug 25, 2025, 14:00 until Aug 28, 2025, 19:00, SwissTech Convention Center, EPFL

Psi-k 2025 is the 7th general conference for the worldwide Psi-k community. Held every 5 years, this event is the largest worldwide in first-principles simulations. The conference has already received 1300 registration and has reached capacity! It promises to be the most exciting, defining event in the field, offering a stimulating and enjoyable atmosphere, in addition to a chance to explore the beautiful region around Lausanne and Lake Geneva.  

The conference will bring together the community that is active in the field, to develop fundamental theory, algorithms, and computer codes in order to understand, predict, and design materials properties and functions. Theoretical condensed matter physics, quantum chemistry, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics form its scientific core. Applications encompass inorganic, organic and bio-materials, and cover a whole range of diverse scientific, engineering, and industrial endeavours.

  • 3.5 days (from Monday afternoon to Thursday evening)
  • 6 plenary talks
  • 35 symposia
  • 6 parallel sessions
  • 120+ invited talks
  • ~200 contributed talks

1300 participants have registered! The conference has reached capacity and registrations are now closed. However, a small number of registrations will still be allowed on site for those who will have contacted the conference secretariat in advance to secure their participation. 


Details:

https://www.psik2025.net

Plenary speakers

  • Lilia Boeri, University of Rome Sapienza, Italy
  • Garnet Chan, California Institute of Technology, USA
  • Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Princeton University, USA
  • Leeor Kronik, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Nicola Marzari, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
  • Roser Valentí, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany