The general topics and the special sessions proposed for the Conference (Chaos2008) include but are not limited to: Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, Stochastic Chaos, Chemical Chaos, Data Analysis and Chaos, Hydrodynamics, Turbulence and Plasmas, Optics and Chaos, Chaotic Oscillations and Circuits, Chaos in Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Flows, Biology and Chaos, Neurophysiology and Chaos, Hamiltonian systems, Chaos in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chaos and Solitons, Micro- and Nano- Electro-Mechanical Systems, Neural Networks and Chaos, Ecology and Economy.

The 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Physics Research and Education, the fifth in this series of conferences, will focus on the expanding and deepening role of computers in physics research and instruction, with particular emphasis on undergraduate education. The purpose of this conference is to survey how computational physics is currently being used, to identify problems where computation helps students understand key physics concepts, and to assess the effectiveness of computational-physics instruction. The conference will highlight current efforts to incorporate computational physics and other computer-based methods (such as simulations and visualizations) into the physics classroom. The format of the conference - which will include invited plenary sessions, contributed poster presentations, and generous amounts of unscheduled time for informal discussions - is specially designed to promote dialogue and cross-fertilization of ideas between educators and researchers at the forefront of their fields, including researchers in physics education. College and university faculty, research associates (postdocs), computational-physics textbook authors, curriculum and educational software developers, and graduate and undergraduate students are invited to participate.

The Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Summer School is an initiative of the Catalan Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Reference Network with the intention of creating a tool for the diffusion of the latest developments in the field of chemistry today, with special emphasis on the role played by the different branches of theoretical chemistry in the comprehension and modelling of the phenomena involved. We also believe that it is important to provide a forum for learning about the work being carried out by the different research groups that make up the network. Our purpose is therefore to maintain ―within the specific possibilities of each research subject― an equilibrium between the Network members and external scientists in the teaching team. The international scope of the school, which will be conducted in English, will be further enhanced by the participation of foreign professors.

The program will consist of invited oral presentations and contributed posters describing new methods for computing previously inaccessible properties, breakthroughs in computational efficiency and accuracy, and novel applications of these approaches to the study of molecules, liquids, and solids.

The Conference is meant as an international forum for the presentation and discussion of novel scientific ideas, in a field of broadly understood magnetic phenomena, experimental results and new magnetic materials. A special emphasis will be focused on: 1. Strongly Correlated Electrons and High Temperature Superconductivity 2. Quantum and Classical Spin Systems 3. Magnetic Structure and Dynamics 4. Spin Electronics and Magneto-Transport 5. Nano-structure, Surfaces, and Interfaces 6. Soft and Hard Magnetic Materials 7. Applications

The meeting consists of a series of invited lectures together with contributed oral and poster presentations.

The 2008 Boulder school presents a leading team of experimental and theoretical condensed matter physicists to lecture on diverse aspects of this burgeoning field of research. The school will focus primarily on pedagogy, seeking to provide students with a firm foundation in the key theoretical and experimental methods, with extensive opportunities for informal and detailed discussion. Topics to be covered include fundamentals of Fermi liquid theory, magnetism and low dimensional materials, organic, oxide and heavy electron materials, diverse methods of spectroscopy and transport measurements and the link with strongly correlated physics of atom traps.

The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University are pleased to host the International Conference on Low-Energy Electrodynamics in Solids 2008 (LEES 08), Vancouver-Whistler, British Columbia, June 30 - July 4, 2008. LEES 08 will be a forum for the interdisciplinary discussion of the low-energy electrodynamics of solids, at both the theoretical and experimental level, with specific emphasis on the electronic and magnetic properties of quantum materials. The conference will be held at the Four Seasons Resort in Whistler village, located 130 km from the city of Vancouver. Whistler will host the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and is a spectacular mountain resort in the summer. Early registration is advised, as participation is limited to about 80 attendees. The registration deadline is March 1, 2008. Please visit the conference website for on-line registration and additional information concerning program and accommodation: www.ampel.ubc.ca/lees08

The goal of the school will be to present a comprehensive picture of the state of the art in the field of multiferroic oxides with an emphasis on the theory of the coexistence and mutual interaction of different orders and fundamental aspects of the broken symmetries, the search for new compounds exhibiting magneto-electric coupling and multiferroicity, and the novel physical phenomena that result - for instance, extremely complex magnetic phase diagrams, ferroelectricity induced by magnetic order, the rotation or complete reversal of the ferroelectric polarization in magnetic field, ferromagnetic order induced by electric as well as magnetic fields, and the discovery of new elementary excitations. The summer school is designed to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas among the participants.

The scope of the conference covers theoretical and experimental aspects of luminescence phenomena in both bulky and nano-crystals of organic and inorganic materials. Insulators, semiconductors, disordered and amorphous materials, clusters and nano-clusters are included. The meeting will include invited lectures, contributed presentations and posters of the following topics: # 1- Nature of luminescence centres, excited-state dynamics, energy transfer, thermo-luminescence, # 2- Excitons, polaritons and collective phenomena, # 3- Optical spectroscopy in molecular and biological systems, # 4- Disordered and amorphous materials,#5- Nanocrystals, quantum-structured materials and micro-cavities, # 6- Single molecule, single-particle and quantum-dot spectroscopy, # 7- Near-field microscopy and spectroscopy, # 8- Transient phenomena and coherent processes; picosecond and femtosecond spectroscopy, # 9- High-density excitation and nonlinear effects in optical processes, # 10- Non-radiative processes and non-equilibrium phonon effects; hot luminescence, # 11- Electric field induced, organic and inorganic electroluminescence, OLED and FED, # 12- New luminescent materials, new synthesis, new methods, new phenomena, and # 13- Applications in technology and related topics. As in the previous ICL Conferences, all accepted manuscripts will be published in a special issue of Journal of Luminescence.

Nanoscale phenomena, spanning multiple disciplines, share a unifying core problem: excitations away from equilibrium that evolve through non-adiabatic processes. Numerous techniques for modelling these have been designed and are undergoing rapid further development, usually within individual disciplines. A meeting is to be held to survey the spectrum of molecular dynamics based methods in order to highlight their strengths and weaknesses and to establish fundamental connections between them.

The emphasis of the school will be to introduce newly emerging methods in the description, design and geometrical analysis of crystal structures, particularly open-framework materials such as zeolites and MOF’s. Frontier research areas will be introduced, but the emphasis will on fundamentals. Instruction and exercises will be at a demanding pace but there will be a three-day break in the middle during which students will be encouraged to audit presentations at a workshop on theoretical and experimental aspects of the design and synthesis of zeolites and related materials.

PASPS V will highlight the latest theoretical and experimental developments in new semiconductor spintronic materials and devices as well as advances in metallic magnetoelectronics.

The third international summer school in the series "Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO program" will take place during August 2008 at the Towler Institute monastery in the Tuscan Apuan Alps, organized and hosted by members of Cambridge University physics department’s Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) Group. The aim of the school is to give students a thorough introduction to quantum Monte Carlo as a method for performing high-quality calculations of the electronic structure of real materials. The course is designed for young scientists who have no previous experience with this technique, though anyone interested is welcome to take part.

The DSFD series of conferences originated with the historic 1986 Los Alamos conference on lattice-gas models organized by Doolen et al. Since that time, the DSFD conferences have emerged as a premiere forum for researchers in the field, and many exciting new discoveries in lattice models of fluid dynamics have been first announced at DSFD conferences. Topics emphasized at these meetings include lattice gas automata (LGA), the lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE), discrete velocity methods (DVM), dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH), direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC), stochastic rotation dynamics (SRD), molecular dynamics (MD), and hybrid methods. There will be sessions on advances in both theory and computation, on engineering applications of discrete fluid algorithms, and on fundamental issues in statistical mechanics, kinetic theory and hydrodynamics and their applications in Micro, Nano and Multiscale Physics for emerging technologies. Other topics of interest also include theoretical and experimental work on interfacial phenomena, droplets, free-surface flow, and micro and nanofluidics.

The workshop seeks to foster discussion between leading and new practitioners in heterogeneous catalysis and surface science, about the most important challenges we face in designing selective and efficient catalysts. Together, we will explore new experimental methods, new computational approaches, new model systems, and new applications of catalysis through a series of plenary and invited lectures as well as interactive sessions. The workshop is suitable for advanced graduate students and post-docs, faculty researchers, and industry professionals.

The primary purpose of this summer school is to provide an introduction to density functional theory with particular emphasis on practical methodology and implementation aspects. Extensions beyond the standard DFT formalism will also be discussed.

ICDIM2008 will be held in Aracaju, capital of Sergipe State, in the northeast region of Brazil, from 24 to 29 August 2008. This is the 16th meeting in the conference series that began in 1956 at Argonne, USA. The Conference deals with defect-related phenomena in materials widely used in a number of different applications requiring extremely high optical transparency in different spectral regions, or strong interaction with X- or gamma rays and high-energy particles, or mass and charge transport process in solid state. New challenges in energy storage and production are included in the current topics covered by the conference, as well as the development of sensors and smart materials. Typical application fields are optical communication systems, spectroscopy, digital medical radiography and tomography, dosimetric systems in radiation protection and radiation imaging media, scintillators, photorefractive and electro-optic materials, optical fibres, lasers, materials for micro-electronics, solid electrolytes, fuel cells, electrochemical sensors and fast ionic conductors. In the focus of attention are novel nanoscale materials for applications in photonics. The important dates are: 20th April 2008 Acceptance Letter 24th May 2008 Reduced fees deadline 2429th August Conference The conference venue is Hotel Parque dos Coqueiros (Coconut Palm Tree Park Hotel - http://www.hotelparquedoscoqueiros.com.br/). Please, visit the ICDIM2008 conference homepage at http://www.fisica.ufs.br/ICDIM2008, or send an e-mail to icdim2008-->fisica.ufs.br, if you require any extra information.

The Transfer of Knowledge Workshop is aimed at exchanging of information related to fundamental understanding of the phenomena ssociated with the current-induced spin-momentum transfer.

The week long school is designed for PhD students, Post-Docs and researchers with interests in solid state chemistry, physics, materials science, surface science, catalysis, magnetism and nano-science. It will provide both an introduction to the capabilities of quantum mechanical simulation and to the practical use of CRYSTAL06 (http://www.crystal.unito.it).

This workshop will address the fundamental principles, basic processes and technological challenges of solar energy conversion in nanostructured materials. Both experimental topics and theoretical approaches (using computer simulations) will be covered. Sponsored by ICTP. Co-supported by ICMR-UCSB and the Central European Initiative

The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers who use computational methods, those who perform experiments, and of course those who do both, in all areas of materials characterisation, to discuss their recent results and ideas, in order to foster the multidisciplinary approach that has become necessary for the study of complex phenomena. Topics of interest for this Conference range from generic characterisation methods to damage assessment and application to particular materials. Of particular interest is the synergy between computational methods and experimental procedures.