Asia Computational Materials Design and Quantum Engineering Workshop 2010

INTRODUCTION

We are pleased to inform you that the Computational Material Design and Quantum Engineering Laboratory, Research Group of Engineering Physics, Faculty of Industrial Technology, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), in cooperation with the Kasai Laboratory of the Osaka University will organize the 3^rd Asia Computational Material Design Workshop. This workshop will provide lectures of leading-edge researches in Computational Materials Design (CMD) Sciences and hands-on practical training of the quantum simulation. The invited speakers are the top speakers in this field.

Computational materials design is a computational approach aimed at developing new materials with specified properties and functionalities. The basic ingredient is the use of quantum simulations to solve the material science problems in order to design a material that suits this specification. CMD has the high potentiality to impact the real industrial research and development.

Although the subject covered in this workshop is advance nevertheless we will present it to you step by step. The workshop will be started with the overview of possible roles of CMD in Indonesia, some CMD applications, CMD in surface interactions and nano-spintronics, and followed by the development of quantum simulators. We plan the following 3 hands-on experiences :

1.) First-principles molecular dynamics program code : STATE-Senri  

     (developed by Yoshitada MORIKAWA)

2.) First-principles calculation code by real-space formalism : RSPACE
     (developed by Tomoya ONO)

3.) KKR-CPA-LDA electronic - structure - computation code :
     Machikaneyama (developed by Hisazumi AKAI)

We are looking forward to seeing you in the campus of Insitute of Technology Bandung. You will also find pleasant places to see and enjoy recreation around the city of Bandung.

DESCRIPTION 

The workshop will provide hands-on experience of the quantum simulation. We chose to use an open source application so that the participants can easily develop for their own purposes without an extra spending on application softwares. Although there is no computational language knowledge requirements, understanding any of it, preferably Fortran or C and Java, will be useful. The lecture, practice, and tutorial will be given by the experts form the Osaka University, the University of Tokyo, and ITB.

OBJECTIVE 

After completing this workshop, the participants should familiar with DFT based ab initio computation, development of quantum simulators and computational material design paradigm in general should be able to use modern tools : Machikaneyama,  STATE-Senri and RSPACE codes, for quantum simulation and material design; should be able to conduct quantum molecular dynamics and atomic motion based simulations.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE WORKSHOP

Lecturers, graduate students as well as practitioners in physics, chemistry, engineering physics, electrical engineering, material science and engineering. Basically every one interested in the subject are welcome. However, we will strictly limit the number of participants to 45 and the decision will be only be based on the first come first served basis.

What would you get : course hands-out and certificate

Workshop duration : 4 full-days

Schedule : July 19-22, 2010

Venue : ITB Campus, Jl. Ganesha 10 Bandung 40132

Fees : Rp 300.000,-

          Rp 250.000,- (if paid before July 1, 2010)

SPONSORS

This workshop is partially sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Directorate General for Higher Education (DGHE - Dirjen Dikti), Osaka University and ITB.

FACILITIES 

Air-conditoned computer laboratory with multimedia facilities, lunch, snacks and certificate. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop so that they can install all relevant softwares for their own purpose.

INSTRUCTORS/TUTORS 

The lectures will be given by Prof. Hideaki Kasai, Prof. Hiroshi Katayama Yoshida, Prof. Hiroshi Nakanishi, Prof. Yoshitada Morikawa, Prof. Tomoya Ono, Prof. Masaaki Geshi, Kazunori Sato from Osaka University, Prof. Shinji Tsuneyuki from the University of Tokyo, and Hermawan K. Dipojono, Ph.D from ITB

FURTHER CONTACTS

Research Group of Engineering Physics,
Faculty of Industrial Technology, 

Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB)

Phone/Facs. : 022-2504424 Ext. 213 / 022-2506281

Contact Person : linagani@tf.itb.ac.id or mazna@tf.itb.ac.id