Past events

The CP2K User Tutorial 2017 on “Advanced ab-initio MD methods” will be held on July 12-14, 2017 at University of Zurich (Campus Irchel). The goal of this CP2K tutorial is to provide to experienced researchers and students in the field of molecular simulations a survey of the most relevant computational MD tools implemented within the CP2K program package.

The third MARVEL Junior Retreat is organized from July 3 to 6, 2017, @  Hotel Paladina in Pura-Lugano. Registration deadline: May 21, 2017.

The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), will be held from June 26 to 28, 2017 at Palazzo dei Congressi, located in Lugano, Switzerland.

Welcome to the eighth MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday June 8, 2017, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Francesco Ambrosio (EPFL, CSEA) gives a presentation on 'Redox levels in aqueous solution: theory and applications' and Leonid Kahle (EPFL, THEOS) on 'High-throughput search for novel Li-ion solid-state conductors'. The seminar is facilitated by Ariadni Boziki.

The second edition of the MARVEL/Psi-k/MaX “Tutorial on high-throughput computations: general methods and applications using AiiDA” will take place on May 29-31, 2017 at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland).

Tuesday May 16, 2017, 4:15 pm, EPFL MXF-1,  Prof.  Annabella Selloni (Princeton University), Photocatalysis on TiO2: insights from simulations

Welcome to the seventh MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday May 11, 2017, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Piero Gasparotto (EPFL, COSMO) gives a presentation on 'Probabilistic Analysis of Molecular Motifs' and Ariadni Boziki (EPFL, LCBC) on 'Phase discovery of organic-inorganic halide perovskites'. The seminar is facilitated by Sandip De.

The third MARVEL site visit will take place at EPFL on April 25-26, 2017.

Welcome to the sixth MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday April 6, 2017, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Vamshi Mohan Katukuri (EPFL, C3MP) gives a presentation on 'Material realization of Kitaev model on honeycomb lattice' and Quang Van Nguyen (EPFL, LIONS) on 'Quantum properties prediction from optimization point of view'. The seminar is facilitated by Fernando Gargiulo.

Information event about the "Fix the leaky pipeline!" program on Thursday 30 March 2017, 9:45-16:00 at SERI – State Secretariat for Education, Research & Innovation – Einsteinstr. 2, 3005 Berne.

On Tuesday March 21, EPFL will welcome for the second time the Ig Nobel Award Tour Show, with Marc Abrahams and a line-up of Ig Nobel Prize winners, with the support of the NCCR MARVEL.

Welcome to the fifth MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday March 9, 2017, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Assil Bouzid (EPFL, CSEA) gives a presentation on 'Redox levels through constant Fermi-level ab initio molecular dynamics' and Nicolas Hörmann (EPFL, THEOS) on 'Grand-canonical first-principles simulations of electrochemical interface'. The seminar is facilitated by Ariadni Boziki .