Past events

The 2-week camp entitled "From atoms to computers — Discovering scientific programming"  is open to teenagers aged 16 to 19 years old, corresponding to the last two years of high-school, with no high-level in maths or physics prerequisite and no prior programming knowledge required. Half of the seats are reserved for young women.

Thursday June 21, 2018, 16:00 pm, EPFL, Room MED 2 1124 (CoViz2), Scott Auerbach, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, UMass Amherst, USA. Interdisciplinary Learning via Real World Problems: The Agonies and Ecstasies of the UMass iCons Program

The main goal of the Computational Chemistry meets Artificial Intelligence (CC2AI) conference is to bring together research groups from biomolecular simulations and ab-initio computations with those from machine learning and evolutionary/stochastic optimisation to further encourage the development of these fields.

The organizers of this CECAM workshop propose to gather all the key developers involved in the different efforts, both in Europe and in the US, of creating large databases (DBs) containing the calculated properties of existing and hypothetical materials obtained by high-throughput (HT) ab initio computations. The workshop obviously include some oral presentations about the different DBs and their latest capabilities. But, the largest fraction of the time is dedicated to more technical presentations and discussions about the first implementations of the common API. The organizers also propose to leave more than a full day for a coding party continuing to implement the common API.

Welcome to the 17th MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday June 7, 2018, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Daniel Gosalbez Martinez (EPFL, C3MP) gives a presentation on 'Topological characterization of metals' and Felix Musil (EPFL, COSMO) on 'Machine Learning for molecular materials: stability, properties and experimental observables'. The seminar is facilitated by Francesco Maresca.

The three days workshop is aimed at programmers, active in the development of a scientific application written in Fortran, who want to write modern code or modernize existing codes. It consists of lectures, invited speakers presentations, and practical hands-on sessions. The workshop is free of charge, registration is required before the end of April 2018.

This tutorial is organized for 40 students, postdocs and researchers interested in applying high-throughput computations in their research and interested in learning how to use the AiiDA platform. Registration is open until April 16, 2018.

Wednesday May 23, 2018, 16:15 pm, EPFL, Room MXF1, Prof. Raffaele Resta (Democritos, IOM-CNR, Trieste, Italy), Geometrical observables of the electronic ground state.

Welcome to the 16th MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday May 3, 2018, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Nicola Colonna (EPFL, THEOS) gives a presentation on 'Koopmans-compliant functionals: A reliable and efficient tool for the prediction of spectroscopic quantities' and Francesco Maresca (EPFL, LAMMM) on 'Structure and mobility of the austenite/martensite interface in steels'. The seminar is facilitated by Davide Campi.

Welcome to the 15th MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday April 19, 2018, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Igor Reshetnyak (EPFL, CSEA) gives a presentation on 'First principles description of Cu2V2O7: electron-hole interaction and thermal effects' and Kun-Han Lin (EPFL, LCMD) on 'High-Throughput Screening of Novel 2D Support Materials for Catalysis'. The seminar is facilitated by Francesco Ambrosio.

A fast-paced workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs in science and technology! Is my idea worth pursuing commercially? What are my next steps? Register before February 11, 2018.

The fourth MARVEL site visit will take place at EPFL on April 10-11, 2018. At this occasion, the Review Panel —international board of evaluation of the NCCR MARVEL— will meet the members of the project.