Véritable hôtel à projets, le Centre Blaise Pascal est un lieu de conférences, recherches et formations pour la région Rhône-Alpes dans le domaine de la modélisation et simulation numérique couvrant sciences dures, bio-sciences & santé, sciences humaines, mathématiques appliquées, info-sciences et ingénierie.
Ce GDR vise en premier lieu un objectif de partage de l'information sur les méthodes, chaque équipe faisant connaître ses développements méthodologiques auprès d'une communauté qui utilise la simulation à l'échelle atomique, mais dont les matériaux ou les propriétés étudiées sont différents ou proches des siennes. Il doit permettre d’obtenir de l'information et d’échanger sur les différentes études menées par les autres membres du GDR. Ce partage des acquis sur la simulation à l'échelle atomique doit permettre de développer des collaborations au sein de la communauté des théoriciens des matériaux. Il permettra ainsi une structuration de la communauté, d’augmenter les échanges, de faciliter et initier des collaborations. Au-delà du partage de l’information, le souhait commun de mise en relation des différentes méthodes implique également une forte demande d’apprentissage des différentes méthodes complémentaires, pour chaque usager, de ses propres méthodes. Ainsi, une attente très importante, que nous souhaitons exaucer par le GDR, est l’organisation d’ateliers et d’écoles donnant une part importante à des séances « pratiques ».
Psi-k is is a wide network, co-ordinated by a series of working groups, to help build cooperation in our subject. Everyone in the field of electronic structure calculations is invited to join the ?k Portal. Via the portal you distribute and receive information about workshops, conferences and job announcements. You also receive the ?k newsletters with highlights in our field and abstracts of preprints. Everyone is invited to contribute to this newsletter.
The Network is an attempt to promote excellence in our subject, through collaborations across Europe, including helping those in smaller, or new, or isolated research groups. Read more about ?k.
CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) is a European organization devoted to the promotion of fundamental research on advanced computational methods and to their application to important problems in frontier areas of science and technology. As the acronym CECAM indicates, traditionally the focus of its activities has been on atomistic and molecular simulations, mainly in relation to the physics and chemistry of condensed matter. Powerful methods have been developed over the last two decades for molecular simulations that have improved on their reliability. In addition, the synergic development of hardware and software, have further led molecular simulations to broaden their reach to more realistic modeling and thus their range of application, from materials science to biology to medicinal chemistry. CECAM has always been very attentive to such development and also fostered it. Nowadays, computer simulations are considered the third way of doing science, beyond theory and experiment. Indeed, their role as a research tool has been growing in many domains of science and engineering, to the point of becoming increasingly essential to their progress. In response to this phenomenon, which is believed to be at its early stages only, CECAM will evolve in its scope and structure, to cover important areas of computational science, beyond those traditional to the CECAM community, and to comprehend several competence centers distributed over Europe and their coordinated activities. CECAM activities will range from the organization of scientific workshops to that of specific tutorials at the graduate level on the use of especially relevant software, from brain-storming meetings on timely topics to collaborative research projects, and sponsoring of an interesting visitors program as well as of specialized courses in computational sciences also at the master level.
