Past events

Female PhD students, postdocs and professors are invited to an informal lunch with Prof. Mary O'Kane, the Erna Hamburger Prize Laureate 2017, who has accepted to give a presentation of her research and career Monday 25 September 12:30-14:00 at EPFL. In the evening of the same day at 18:00, the WISH foundation will hold the prestigious Erna Hamburger Prize and Conference.

Thursday September 21, 2017, 16:15 pm, EPFL, Room SG 0211, Prof. Chris G. Van De Walle (University of California, Santa Barbara), Using the right criteria for design and discovery

Monday September 11, 2017, 16:15 pm, EPFL, Room MXF1,  Prof. Yang Shao-Horn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Future of Electrochemistry

The fourth MARVEL Review and Retreat, gathering all MARVEL members, will take place on September 7-8, 2017.

The NCCR-MARVEL will attend the exhibition of the ETHZ Industry Day 2017 from 12.00 until 18.00. An opportunity for companies to have an insight on our activities in materials design and discovery. Come and visit us !

The Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry (STC) is an annual meeting gathering scientists from all areas of Theoretical Chemistry in which a specific topical focus is featured each year. This year's theme is ''Big Data in Chemistry: From Molecular Structure to Condensed Phase Dynamics''.

MARVEL organizes topical sessions on “Correlated-Electron Physics in Transition-Metal Oxides” and on “Emergent phenomena in novel low-dimensional materials” at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Swiss and Austrian Physical Societies (SPS-ÖPG 2017), to be held in Geneva on August 21-25, 2017.

Friday July 21, 2017, 11:15 am, EPFL, Room MXF1, Prof.  Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley), The Fascinating Quantum World of Two-dimensional Materials: Interaction and Topological Effects

The CP2K User Tutorial 2017 on “Advanced ab-initio MD methods” will be held on July 12-14, 2017 at University of Zurich (Campus Irchel). The goal of this CP2K tutorial is to provide to experienced researchers and students in the field of molecular simulations a survey of the most relevant computational MD tools implemented within the CP2K program package.

The third MARVEL Junior Retreat is organized from July 3 to 6, 2017, @  Hotel Paladina in Pura-Lugano. Registration deadline: May 21, 2017.

The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), will be held from June 26 to 28, 2017 at Palazzo dei Congressi, located in Lugano, Switzerland.

Welcome to the eighth MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday June 8, 2017, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Francesco Ambrosio (EPFL, CSEA) gives a presentation on 'Redox levels in aqueous solution: theory and applications' and Leonid Kahle (EPFL, THEOS) on 'High-throughput search for novel Li-ion solid-state conductors'. The seminar is facilitated by Ariadni Boziki.