*** Many thanks to all 120 participants and the many people who helped make the workshop a great success. ***
The workshop proceedings will be published as a special issue of J Phys Cond Matter in the first half of 2010. Instructions about manuscript preparation have been sent separately to all participants.
Scope
The structures, physicochemical and thermodynamic properties of materials are becoming increasingly amenable to treatment by first-principles quantum mechanical simulations. Calculations containing a few hundred atoms are now routine, thanks to improvements in computer technology and computational techniques. Multi-scale simulations combining first-principles energetics with statistical thermodynamics are also becoming more widespread. By applying these new computational tools, materials science and technology is expected to enter a new era of rapid progress and efficiency.
The purpose of the current workshop is to exchange ideas at the cutting edge of first principles calculations, particularly their application to real-world problems. This is the third workshop in the TMI series, and the first to be held in Japan. Lectures and poster presentations will be given by leading international academic and industrial researchers, with the expectation of active audience participation.
Organizing Committee
- Prof Isao TANAKA (Kyoto University/JFCC, Japan)
- Prof Jürgen HAFNER (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Dr Erich WIMMER (Materials Design Inc, USA)
- Dr Ryoji ASAHI (Toyota Central R&D Labs, Japan)
Programme
The workshop consisted of
- lectures by invited speakers (11-13 November)
- banquet (evening of 11 November)
- poster session (afternoon of 12 November)
The workshop programme is available in PDF format 
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Venue
The workshop was held in the Annex Hall of the Nagoya International Center (NIC), Nagoya, Japan.
Access details can be found here.
Invited Speakers
- Dr Ryoji ASAHI (Toyota Central R&D Labs, Japan)
- Dr Tomas BUCKO (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Dr Gábor CSÁNYI (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Dr Alessandro DE VITA (King's College London, UK)
- Dr Bernard DELLEY (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)
- Dr Christophe DOMAIN (EDF, France)
- Dr George FITZGERALD (Accelrys, USA)
- Prof Takeo FUJIWARA (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Prof Jürgen HAFNER (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Dr Masaya ISHIDA (Sumitomo Chemicals, Japan)
- Dr Werner JANSE VAN RENSBURG (Sasol Technology, South Africa)
- Dr Masanori KOHYAMA (AIST, Japan)
- Dr Takao KOTANI (Tottori University, Japan)
- Prof Georg KRESSE (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Dr Katsuyuki MATSUNAGA (Kyoto University, Japan)
- Prof Dr Stefan MÜLLER (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
- Dr Shin-ichiro NAKAMURA (Mitsubishi Chemicals, Japan)
- Dr Fumiyasu OBA (Kyoto University, Japan)
- Prof Tamio OGUCHI (Hiroshima University, Japan)
- Dr Pascal RAYBAUD (IFP, France)
- Prof Isao TANAKA (Kyoto University/JFCC, Japan)
- Prof Göran WAHNSTRÖM (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
- Dr Erich WIMMER (Materials Design Inc, USA)
Organization and Support
Organized by
- Nanostructures Research Laboratory of the Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC-NSRL)
Co-organized by
- Atomic Scale Modification Project (funded by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas from MEXT, Japan)
Sponsors
- Psi-k Network
- University of Vienna
- Accelrys Software Inc
- Materials Design Inc
- Ryoka Systems Inc
Collaborators
- Nagoya City Council
- The Japan Institute of Metals
- The Ceramic Society of Japan
- The Japan Society of Applied Physics
- The Physical Society of Japan
- The Chemical Society of Japan
Further Information
TMI2009 Secretariat
Nanostructures Research Laboratory
Japan Fine Ceramics Center
2-4-1 Mutsuno, Atsuta-ku, Nagoya 456-8587, Japan
Tel: +81(0)52 871 3500 | Fax: +81(0)52 871 3599
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