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Newsletter - April 16, 2021

Dear MARVEL'ers,

Please find below our latest newsletter, with news and events linked to the MARVEL community. This month, read about alchemical chirality and how the simplifications that it allows deepen our understanding of chemical compound space and enable researchers to establish new trends ‘on-the-fly,’ without resorting to empirical observation.

We introduce you to the #NCCRWomen campaign, launched to celebrate the 50th anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote in Switzerland: the 22 active NCCRs have joined forces in a campaign showing how in these 50 years women have come to occupy a central place in research in almost all scientific fields.

Take note of the upcoming spring MARVEL Distinguished Lectures, which will feature Kristin Persson, Georg Kresse and Darío Gil in April, May and June, respectively. Furthermore, Daan Frenkel and Tony Ladd will be the next guests in the CECAM-MARVEL series "Classics in molecular and materials modelling". Note too, the next MARVEL Junior Seminars, this afternoon April 16, and on May 28.

Scientific highlight

Solving the inverse materials design problem with alchemical chirality

Combing through the “vast virtual set of all conceivable stable combinations of elements and structural configurations which form matter” is a daunting task in materials design. In the paper Simplifying inverse material design problems for fixed lattices with alchemical chirality, Anatole von Lilienfeld, professor at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel/University of Vienna and project leader of NCCR MARVEL Incubator Project 2 and postdoc Guido Falk von Rudorff, show how the concept of 4-dimensional chirality resulting from an alchemical reflection plane in the nuclear charge space allows researchers to break down combinatorial scaling. This alchemical chirality and the simplifications that it allows deepen our understanding of chemical compound space and enable researchers to establish new trends ‘on-the-fly,’ without resorting to empirical observation. The paper is forthcoming in Science Advances. 

Read MARVEL Highlights here.

News

Materials Cloud as official repository for Open Research Europe

We are very pleased to announce that the Materials Cloud platform developed by the NCCR MARVEL is now an official repository for Open Research Europe.

Upcoming MARVEL Distinguished Lectures

Persson Kresse Gil

MARVEL Distinguished Lecture — Kristin Persson

Apr 27, 2021, from 17:00 until 18:15, Zoom

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".

MARVEL Distinguished Lecture — Georg Kresse

May 18, 2021, from 15:00 until 16:15, Zoom

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?"

MARVEL Distinguished Lecture — Darío Gil

Jun 15, 2021, from 14:00 until 15:15, Zoom

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".

#NCCRWomen campaign

Meet the #NCCRWomen

Meet the NCCR women! To celebrate the 50th anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote in Switzerland, the 22 active NCCRs have joined forces in a campaign showing how in these 50 years women have come to occupy a central place in research in almost all scientific fields.

The campaign is ongoing on YouTube and Instagram, with already four NCCRs in the spotlight, NCCR Microbiomes (Microbial Communities in Health and Environment), NCCR QSIT (Quantum Science and Technology), NCCR Kidney.CH (Kidney Control of Homeostasis), and this week NCCR Automation (Dependable Ubiquitous Automation).

From 26 April you will discover NCCR Digital Fabrication (Innovative Building Processes in Architecture) and the women of NCCR MARVEL will be taking over from 27 September to 1st October.

Schools

Path Integral Quantum Mechanics: From the Basics to the Latest Developments

Jun 14, 2021, 15:00 until Jun 18, 2021, 19:00, Lausanne

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. 

Quantum Computing Hard- and Software Summer School 2021

Jun 15, 2021, 9:00 until Jun 18, 2021, 18:30, Lausanne

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

Upcoming MARVEL Junior Seminars

MARVEL Junior Seminar — April 2021

Apr 16, 2021, from 14:00 until 15:15, Zoom

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).

MARVEL Junior Seminar — May 2021

May 28, 2021, from 14:00 until 15:15, Zoom

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).

CECAM-MARVEL Classics

CECAM-MARVEL Classics in molecular and materials modelling: Daan Frenkel and Tony Ladd

May 20, 2021, from 15:00 until 17:45, Online

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.

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