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The Winter School 2009 "Multiscale Simulation Methods in Molecular Sciences" will be held from   3 -

6 March 2009 at the  Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS), Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC),

Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany. For further details please see the following website:

http://www.fz-juelich.de/wsms

Scope of the School
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The Winter School 2009 continues a series of Schools that was
devoted over the years to several well-defined and mature areas
like "Quantum Chemistry" (2000), "Quantum Many-Body Systems" (2002),
"Soft Matter" (2004), or "Nanoscience" (2006). This School will cover
three main strings of themes focusing on how to deal with hard matter,
soft matter, and bio matter when it is necessary to cope with disparate length and time scales. Therein aspects like coarse
graining of molecular systems and solids, quantum/classical
hybrid methods, embedding and multiple time step techniques,
creating reactive potentials, multiscale magnetism, adaptive resolution ideas or hydrodynamic interactions will be discussed
in detail. In addition, another string of lectures will be devoted to
the genuine mathematical and the generic algorithmic aspects of multiscale approaches and their parallel implementation on large, multiprocessor systems including techniques such as multigrid and wavelet transformations. Although this is beyond what can be
achieved in a very systematic fashion given the breadth of the
topic, introductions into fundamental techniques such as molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo simulation, and electronic structure (total energy) calculations in the flavor of both wavefunction-based and density-based methods will be provided.

The School about "Multiscale Simulation Methods in Molecular
Sciences" is tailored for PhD students and early Postdocs with a
solid background in basic quantum mechanics coming from physics, chemistry, material science and related disciplines.


Keynote Speakers and Lecturers
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Joerg Behler, Luigi Delle Site, Ralf Drautz, Burkhard Duenweg,
Marcus Elstner, Stefan Goedecker, Christof Haettig, Bernd Koerfgen,
Peter Kratzer, Kurt Kremer, Phivos Mavropoulos, Bernd Mohr,
Stefan Mueller, Aiichiro Nakano,  Mike Payne, Anthony T. Paxton,
Arnold Reusken, Karsten Reuter, Godehard Sutmann, Klaus Schulten,
Walter Thiel, Mark E. Tuckerman, Wolfgang Wenzel, Rudolf Zeller

For the lecture titles see

www.fz-juelich.de/wsms/speaker


Programme Committee
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Johannes Grotendorst, IAS-JSC, Forschungszentrum Juelich
Norbert Attig, IAS-JSC, Forschungszentrum Juelich
Stefan Bluegel, IFF & IAS, Forschungszentrum Juelich
Dominik Marx, Chair of Theoretical Chemistry, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum


Participation
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The number of participants is limited to 50. The participants
will be selected by the programme committee on the basis of the
scientific background of the applicants. Interested young scientists
are invited to submit an applicaton to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
before 31 December 2008. For details see

www.fz-juelich.de/wsms/application

The programme committee will decide in the week 5 - 9 January 2009
on acceptance or rejection of the application and will immediately
inform the applicants by e-mail.


Poster Presentations
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All participants are kindly invited to present a poster on topics
in their working group or on their own work during the School.
Detailed information is provided on

www.fz-juelich.de/wsms/posters


Fees
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Registration fee: 150,- Euro

The fee includes meals, social events, lecture notes, and the
commuter bus service between Juelich and Aachen. Participants
are asked to bear travel and accommodation costs themselves.
For details see

www.fz-juelich.de/wsms/registration