Dear MARVEL'ers,
Please find below our latest newsletter, with highlights and news linked to the MARVEL community.
This month, you can read about a method for a large-scale screening of potential materials to be used in a nuclear fusion divertor, a component that has to withstand extreme heat and a bombardment of particles.
You can also follow the team of the Open Software Services for Classrooms and Research project (OSSCAR) to learn how to create custom widgets and extensions that can be used in interactive notebooks to teach computational materials science.
Congratulations to MARVEL group leader and Executive Committee member Michele Ceriotti, who is the recipient of the prestigious E. Bright Wilson Prize delivered by Harvard!
Mark your calendars for the exciting series of events MARVEL will be organizing in the next few months. On Jan 27 is a new edition of the CECAM-MARVEL Classics in molecular and materials modelling, which will be focused on Quantum Monte Carlo, with David Ceperley and Claudia Filippi. We will have two new MARVEL Distinguished Lectures, with Gerbrand Ceder (UC Berkeley) on Jan 30 and Alexandre Tkatchenko (University of Luxembourg) on March 6. Also, as part of the CECAM-MARVEL Mary Ann Mansigh Conversation series, the next event will address science and diplomacy (Feb 28).
And finally, we wish you all a joyful and wonderful holiday season. We hope that you have a great start of the winter and wish you all the best for a MARVEL'ous new year 2025!