As you will see in the webinar programme, the event will start with an introduction by some of the project leaders, including its coordinator Dr Arrigo Calzolari. Different speakers will reflect on the challenges faced by the INTERSECT project and the answers that this joint effort has designed. The event will also offer a quick overview of the IM2D simulation box. This integrated, standardized, interoperable software solution is the final product of the INTERSECT project.

IM2D supports both Material-to-Device and Device-to-Material research workflows, allowing a broad range of applications. The webinar will introduce the IM2D platform main features through real application cases. Join us whichever is your background, as the software is adaptive to support different levels of expertise when fine-tuning its parameters.

Register now and disseminate this opportunity to accelerate your innovation!

IM2D platform has been developed under the activity of the EU project INTERSECT, under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (G.A. No 814487).

Watch the playlist on ICN2’s youtube channel

The Book of Abstracts is now available. It contains the abstracts from the invited speakers and the INTERSECT team for each session of the workshop and the contributed poster abstracts accepted by the INTERSECT Workshop Scientific Committee. 

We have also just published all the contributed posters received for our workshop. Watch them following or visit the new section on our workshop website.

More on https://intersect-workshop.icn2.cat/ 

For more information, please write to workshop@intersect-project.eu or visit our workshop website at https://intersect-workshop.icn2.cat/.

*Room rental, coffee breaks and lunch are paid by ICN2 as co-organizer of the workshop

The workshop aims at connecting academic research, R&D labs, and industry on the theme of synaptic electronics and neuromorphic computing, with a specific focus on the role of materials on the efficiency and design of next-generation devices, such as volatile and non-volatile memories and memristors. Particular attention will be dedicated to materials-to-device modelling and to innovative interoperable automatic workflows for industry-driven applications, in close connection with the experimental side.

The event will take place in a hybrid format, both in Barcelona and online. Researchers and experts in the field are friendly invited to attend the workshop and to submit oral and/or poster contributions. On-line poster sessions will be available for both in-person and on-line attendees. The deadline for the abstract submission is October 16, 2021. 

The scientific program will be organized in 3 sessions covering the following topics: new materials for synaptic electronics; new materials for synaptic electronics; PCM, ReRAM, ECRAM and ferroelectric memristors; role of disorder, defects, and dopants in memristors; and Interoperability, Ontology & Workflows in materials modelling. See https://intersect-workshop.icn2.cat for further details.

The workshop is free but registration is needed. The registration form is available at http://eepurl.com/hIc22T. The deadline for registrations is October 16, 2021. 

The workshop is organized by the Spanish Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia and the Institute Nanoscience of the National Research Council of Italy, within the activities of our H2020 EU-project INTERSECT.

For more information, visit the workshop website at https://intersect-workshop.icn2.cat or write to workshop@intersect-project.eu. 

The school is aimed at students and researchers from different disciplines who already use, or plan to use, first-principles techniques to simulate properties of matter at the atomic scale. In particular, the school will focus on the SIESTA method. Participants will learn its essential theoretical foundations, and how to use the SIESTA code effectively. Pre- and post-processing tools will also be presented.

The format of the school (completely online) allows for a flexible offering of modules of different levels, from basic to advanced, so that participants can adapt their syllabus. In addition, the material prepared for the school will be integrated into the corpus of SIESTA documentation, which will remain available for continuous learning.

The deadline for applications is the 4th June 2021. The school is organized by our Emanuele Bosoni (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain), Antonio Cammarata (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic), José Mª Escartín (ICN2, Spain), our intersecters Alberto García (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain), Pablo Ordejón (ICN2, Spain), and Miguel Pruneda (ICN2, Spain), and by Zeila Zanolli (Utrecht University, Netherlands). This school is supported by CECAM and the MaX Centre of Excellence.

Information and registration at https://siesta-project.org/siesta/events/SIESTA_School-2021/.

The goal of this 5 day-tutorial is to help students and researchers from the field of computational materials science get started with running and writing reproducible workflows. They will be introduced by experts in the field (including the developers of the code) to the use of AiiDA, a state-of-the-art framework for provenance tracking and workflow management designed to support high-throughput research.

AiiDA already has support for over 50 materials science codes, including established density-functional theory codes such as Quantum ESPRESSO, which will be used for this tutorial. Our INTERSECT IM2D integrates open-source materials modelling codes (Quantum ESPRESSO and SIESTA), with models and modelling software for emerging devices (Ginestra^TM)  via the SimPhony infrastructure for semantic interoperability and ontologies, powered by the AiiDA workflow engine, and its data-on-demand capabilities and apps interface

Target Audience of the AiiDA introductory tutorial includes computational scientists from both academia and industry, Experience with Python is required, but prior experience with AiiDA is not necessary.

Participation in the event is free of charge. The registration deadline is Thursday 10th of June at midnight CEST and the number of participants is limited to 120. For more information and a link to the registration form, please visit the official page of the event:

http://www.aiida.net/aiida-virtual-tutorial-july-2021/

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Update the registration deadline has been extended to June 17th!

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Update the AiiDA introductory tutorial video presentations to learn about AiiDA installation, provenance & workflows, Materials Cloud & plugin ecosystem & more, are now available! Watch the playlist at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um6WUvmTByE&list=PLwM2jMcWDGDDtuGXbMWc7dai-mAQETcTB&index=1

The advanced school will focus on the field of theoretical condensed matter electronic transport exploiting the non-equilibrium Green’s function approach. In particular, recent advances in transport theory will be presented in the form of lectures and hands-on sessions on hot topics in the field. The teachers will present novel methods used for materials research modelling. Participants will learn the advanced features of SIESTA , such as the calculations of non-equilibrium properties using the TranSIESTA/TBtrans approach and the python framework SISL.

SIESTA is one of the open-source materials modelling codes integrated in our IM2D framework – an interoperable material-to-device simulation platform. To stay up-to-date with our project development, read our latest newsletter, and subscribe!

For more information about the advanced school, visit https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/4

Together with other representatives from EU funded R&D projects in Nanotechnologies, Organic Electronics and Nanomedicine, Arrigo Calzolari (CNR-Nano), INTERSECT coordinator, will introduce the project’ latest advances during the Special Workshop on EU projects, where information on the cutting-edge R&D activities in European and International level will be provided. These Oral presentations will be part of Nanotexnology 2021 program, while all the EU Projects will also be presented in a dedicated Poster Session within this Special Workshop. The workshop will take place on July 6th, 2021, with our presentation scheduled at 5.30 pm.

NN21 Conference is a world-class International event in Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (N&N) that focuses on the latest advances on N&N and promotes profound scientific discussions between scientists, researchers from different disciplines and market leaders. NN21 conference will be comprised of associated Workshops and Special Events, covering the latest developments in the fields of Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies. 

More information about the Special Workshop on EU projects are available at https://www.nanotexnology.com/index.php/eu-projects-nn.

More information about the NN21 conference are available at https://www.nanotexnology.com/index.php/.

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With community-governed semantic assets, data with a heterogeneous provenance (e.g., based on different models and methods) can be integrated into common frameworks, and simulation services can be integrated into a variety of platforms that will serve model, data, and software providers as well as their clients in the future. This includes end-user guided model design, simulation-based business decision support, virtual marketplaces where services can be traded, and the interaction with simulation data and metadata repositories.

The lecturers of SWiMM 2021 are active contributors to innovations in this area from a variety of perspectives, including HPC, multi-granularity simulation, complex and high-throughput workflows, repository and platform development, uncertainty quantification, and ontology-based data technology. They have developed solutions and codes that are ready for dissemination and ample use by both academics and industrial engineers, which they will present at SWiMM 2021 to accelerate and assist the uptake of these technologies by the CECAM community.

Our intersecters Nicola Marzari and Giovani Pizzi will give lecturers about “The AiiDA & Materials Cloud informatics platform for complex workflows”, on the following dates:

• Friday, 19th March 2021, 11.30 – 12.15 CET
• Tuesday, 23rd March 2021, 10.30 – 11.15 CET

An abstract about “Materials Cloud, a platform for open computational science” by Nicola Marzari, on which his talks are also based, is available on the event website.

For more information about SWIMM 2021, visit https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/27#.