The School

The School is hosted by SISSA and DEMOCRITOS. These institutions are major players in the field of numerical simulations of material properties with a 25-year tradition of methodological innovation and high-quality software development.

The School is mainly directed to undergraduate students, with little or no experience in computer simulations (see Application for more details). The aims of the schools are:

• providing students with a basic but detailed overview of the theoretical basis of computer simulations of molecular systems, with a focus on molecular dynamics and electronic structure methods
• giving an overview of the domains of interesting applications
• providing the basis for running in practice a simple molecular dynamics simulation and a simple electronic structure calculation.

At the end of the school the students should have a clear idea of the importance of computer simulations; should be aware of the problems that are still open and are at the center of current research effort; should have the capability of writing a code for performing a simple simulation or an analysis.

For interested students with no previous experience in computational science it is possible to attend a 1-week pre-school (4-8 July) devoted to the introduction to programming in C++/Fortran, scripting, compiling etc.

Deadline for Applications

The closing date for receipt of requests for participation is 15 April 2011

• There are no registration fees
• Accomodation and ticket meals are covered by the organization