Michigan Tech University, Washington State University, and the Theoretical Chemistry Group of the Torino University announce the summer school on the ab initio simulation of crystalline and defective solids.

The ASCS school, similar in content and organization to the MSSC schools is addressed to PhD students, Post-Docs and researchers with interests in solid state chemistry, physics, materials science, surface science, catalysis. It provides an overview of the possibilities offered by ab initio quantum mechanical techniques when applied to characterize crystalline materials.

In particular, the present ASCS2006 School is intended as an introduction to the use of the new version of the CRYSTAL code, a general-purpose program for the ab initio study of crystalline solids. The goals of the school are to provide users with general information about the fundamental issues of ab initio simulations of crystalline systems and, secondarily, the application of the Crystal code as a simulation tool, with some hints and skills for clever use of the program.

The new version of CRYSTAL (CRYSTAL06) will be used as a reference both in the morning lectures and in the afternoon tutorials.

Poster for the ASCS2006 school.

Sponsored in part by a MURI grant and the Office of Naval Research.