1.Title: "12th International Workshop on Computational Condensed Matter Physics: Total Energy and Force Methods"

Organizers: 

Giulia Galli, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., U.S. e-mail: galligygi1@llnl.gov
Emilio Artacho, University of Cambridge, U.K. e-mail: emilio@esc.cam.ac.uk
Andrea Dal Corso, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS), Trieste (Italy) e-mail: dalcorso@sissa.it

Other information are at the web page: http://agenda.ictp.trieste.it/agenda/current/displayLevel.php?year=2005

2. This three-day event is organized every odd year in January with the goal of presenting the most advanced achievements in the field of Computational Condensed Matter Physics based on the Electronic Structure and to foster new collaborations.
The format consists of about 30 invited contributions, augmented with a lively poster session.

3. Tentative list of speakers: 

Andreoni (Zurich, Switzerland): ab-initio MD for biochemistry
Bonev (Canada): Hydrogen phase diagram trasport properties
Blase (Lyon, France): clathrate nanostructures
Challacombe (LANL, US): O(N) in quantum chemistry
Fattebert (LLNL, US): Ab-initio O(N) MD in real space with adaptive loc. regions
Filippi (The Netherlands): Qmc for excited states
Fuchs (Berlin, Germany): QMC for hydrogen bonded systems
Gonze (Belgium):
Gunnarson (Stuttgart, Germany) STM for Kondo impurities
Grossman (LLNL, US): Coupling QMC and ab-initio MD
Gross (Germany) : DFT for superconductivity (theory)
Hamman (Rutgers, US): linear response to strain
Kohn (opening talk)
Louie (UCB,US) : GW and transport (or GW only)
Lazzeri (Paris, France): electron-phonon coupling and Kohn anomalies on graphite
MacDonald (US) : Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect
Marzari (MIT, US) quantum transport and nanotubes
Martin (closing remarks)
Massidda (Cagliari, Italy): DFT for superconductivity (applications)
Souza (UCB,US) : Response to e-field with dynamical generalization
Savrasov (New Jersey Inst. Of Technology, US): magnetic systems
Price (UK): Iron, other complex TM under pressure
Resta (Trieste, Italy): Dielectric susceptibility of long, finite polymers
Schulten (UIUC, US): overview on simulations of biological systems
Seijo (Chem. Dept. Autonoma Madrid, Spain): O(N) with localized orbitals
Selloni (Princeton, US); Semiconductor surfaces; nanocatalysis
Smogunov (Trieste, Italy) quantum transport
Soler (Madrid, Spain) Accurate STM calculations

4. In previous editions the attendance was of about 150 people mainly working on electronic structure theory.

5. The largest part of the meeting will be devoted to the presentation of very new results with few tutorial elements, but we plan also to invite some very well known scientists in the field to provide at least one review talk for younger people.

6. Budget :
Costs for invited speakers and committee: 18.000 euro
Costs for partecipants from developing countries: 10.000 euro
Other Costs: 2.000 euro
Total: 30.000 euro
Request to Psi-K: 3.000 euro

7. The event is sponsored by ICTP (15.000 euro), SISSA (5.000 euro), Democritos (2.000 euro not yet approved). Travel tickets for US speakers and committee members will be paid by DOE and are not on the budget. 5.000 euro have been requested to italian MIUR, and 3.000 euro are on the present request.

8. Place: International Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Strada Costiera 12, 34014 Trieste.
The event is planned for 13-15 January 2005.

9. The meeting will be cosponsored by DOE and about one half of the speakers are from US. One of the organizer works in the US, and we expect to have also attendance of some young researchers from US. Furthermore we plan to support about 10-12 participants from developing countries with the ICTP funds.

The costs of previous editions of this conference were covered by ICTP and SISSA. However the main goal of ICTP is the support of science in developing countries.
There have been several colleges at ICTP which demostrate that a sufficiently large community of persons working in electronic structure exists also in developing countries, therefore in this edition we would like to use part of the money that ICTP has allocated for the conference to support participants from developing countries. In our budget we have allocated 10.000 euros for support to selected participants from developing countries and therefore we still need some money to cover the expenses for speakers and committee members.
The involvement of participants from developing countries is, in the long term, a very important investment also for science in Europe. We believe that it is important to strengthen the friendly relationships with scientists of those countries and ICTP is an ideal place in Europe to pursue these efforts because it has already all the infrastructure and the contacts necessary for this.
Moreover, we believe that the international collaborations that could be fostered by this conference and the further strengthening of the long term friendly relationships with our US colleagues are helpful to improve the quality of research in the European Union and could be funded by the Psi-K organization.