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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 Workshop DFT meets Experiment is intended to foster the interaction between the electronic structure community and experimentalists working in related fields. Invited lectures will have a review character and ample time for discussion will be reserved.

The lectures will cover understanding of relevant ferroic properties (ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism and ferroelasticity), as well as an overview on ferroic materials and finally, the more complex world of multiferroicity and multiferroic materials will be addressed. Emphasis on unconventional approaches to multiferroicity will be discussed.

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.