Atomistic Modelling School 2025 @ Zagreb
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Time & Location
- Application
- Schedule
- Scope & Format
- Hands-on Sessions
- Organization
- Resources
- Contact
Introduction
Welcome to the Atomistic Modelling School 2025 (AMS25)!
AMS25 is a 3-day school, primarily intended to introduce theoretical concepts and techniques employed in modern materials research. The school aims to achieve this goal both through theoretical lectures and practical hands-on sessions.
The primary intended audience for the school are undergraduate students; therefore, the only knowledge required to follow to school is a solid foundation in quantum physics. However, PhD students, postdocs and researchers in later career stages are more than welcome!
More details are given below:
- Apply to the school
- Schedule
- Scope and format of the school
Time & Location
The school will be held on three Wednesdays in December:
- December 3 2025, 09:00 - 17:00
- December 10 2025, 09:00 - 17:00
- December 17 2025, 09:00 - 17:00
in the lecture hall of the Institute of Physics (Zagreb, Croatia).
Application
Take a couple of minutes and apply: Click here to open the application form.
The application deadline is November 9 2025, 23:59.
The applications are closed!
We thank all who applied for their time and interest. We will soon contact the applicants with our decision.
School attendance is free for all participants.
Schedule
Scope & Format
It is possible to understand, explain and predict physical phenomena related to macroscopic systems by modelling and analyzing the behavior of their microscopic constituent elements (atoms). In the last century, a wide variety of atomistic modelling methods, primarily founded in quantum physics, were developed. Theoretical frameworks, computational methods and the software/hardware infrastructure related to atomistic modelling have been rapidly advancing, resulting in time and length scales available to modern simulations being comparable to experiments.
It is the aim of this school to introduce some such methods and contextualize them within modern science, so that the participants gain a broad perspective on the state of the art of computational materials science and are able to more easily continue learning.
The topics covered by the school include:
- An introduction to crystallography
- Density functional theory
- Phonons and electron-phonon coupling
- Molecular dynamics
- Machine learning in materials science
- A practical perspective on guiding and explaining experiments via simulations
Gaining a comprehensive understanding of different methodologies requires both an understanding of theoretical foundations and a certain level of practical experience. Therefore, each day of AMS25 will consist of 3 theoretical lectures in the morning, followed by 3 hands-on sessions in the afternoon.
Read about the hands-on sessions and check the schedule for more details.
We will also organize an open panel discussion about working in computational materials science.
Hands-on sessions
We have prepared a virtual machine (VM) containing all the software necessary to follow the hands-on sessions.
Click here to see the VM installation instructions.
Organization
AMS25 is organized by the members of the Modelling and Theory of Materials Group at the Ruđer Bošković institute in collaboration with the Institute of Physics and with support from the Croatian Science Foundation under the project UIP-2020-02-5675.
Resources
- The school GitHub repository containing the VM and exercises
- Other schools and workshops organized by our group
- Materials for Quantum ESPRESSO Ljubljana Summer School (2019)
- F. Giustino, Materials Modelling using Density Functional Theory: Properties and Predictions
- Learning Hub for Modelling and Simulation
Contact
For additional questions, send an email to Juraj.Ovcar@irb.hr.