For PhD students and postdocs

MARVEL contributes to the education of doctoral and postdoctoral students through various actions such as scientific meetings, lectures, schools and workshops.

MARVEL encourages students (PhD and postdocs) associated to the NCCR to participate in various schools and workshops in the field of computational design and discovery of novel materials, or more generally in topics of current interest in theoretical condensed matter physics and materials science. 

It sponsors workshops, conferences, and tutorials that focus on topics associated to MARVEL by providing a financial contribution to young MARVEL collaborators. In this way, through the contact with world-experts attending such conferences, MARVEL encourages high-level education and training of its members. 

Junior retreat 

The MARVEL junior retreat is to bring, once a year, 50 young researchers together, to get to know each other, and share their experiences in their challenging research field. It will combine few visionary talks from guest scientists selected by the students, together with a substantial body of student presentations and discussions, and special activities to broadcast the offerings of SNSF (such as, e.g.,the Doc.Mobility program).

The organizing committee consists of postdocs or PhD students, supervised by the junior professor, Michele Ceriotti, in charge of education and training at the scientific level. 

The first MARVEL junior retreat was organized from July 8 to 10, 2015. The second MARVEL junior retreat took place from July 18 to 21, 2016 in Les Diablerets. The third MARVEL junior retreat took place from July 3 to 6, 2017 in Pura-Lugano. The fourth MARVEL junior retreat took place from July 17 to 20, 2018 in Fieschertal.

Close contacts have been established between MARVEL and the «Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem»  directed by Andrew Millis. The two centers have complementary goals and common needs and joint efforts are planned, through a memorandum of understanding.  The Simons Collaboration will support all of the local expenses for MARVEL students, and the student travel to and from the school will be payed by MARVEL.

  • The 6th MaNEP Winter School, "Shedding light on correlated electrons?", Saas Fee (VS), January 18 to 23, 2015 
  • The international conference Nothing is Perfect -- The Quantum Mechanics of Defects, Ascona (TI), April 26 to 29, 2015. 
  • The MolSim-2015 school was held at CECAM, January -16, 2015, and organized by Berend Smit and others. 
  • Annual Simons Many Electron Collaboration Summer School at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook from June 8 to 12, 2015, focusing on electronic structure and its many body extensions.