URL: http://www.jncasr.ac.in/accms Email: accms@jncasr.ac.in

Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

• Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore.
• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
• The Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Subject Group "Computer Aided Design of Materials"

The Asian Consortium for Computational Materials Science (ACCMS) has been set up to nurture and promote research and developmental activities in computational materials science in Asian countries. Computational materials science has emerged as a distinct multidisciplinary branch of science whose relevance and importance has come from (a) the desire to have a microscopic understanding of complex materials and phenomena, (b) the need to design novel materials with a desired combination of physical, chemical and metallurgical properties, and (c) the possibility to describe the basic inter-atomic interactions in materials via appropriate quantum mechanical and statistical mechanical tools. With the unprecedented growth of computer power (in terms of speed, memory etc.), and the developments of efficient and smart algorithms and codes, it is now possible to do large scale simulations of real materials with increasing complexity. A synergy amongst a wide variety of disciplines such as physics, chemistry, metallurgy, geology, biology, computer science and information technology is gradually coming to a reality due to advances in computer simulations.

The Conference is intended to bring together researchers in Asia who are actively involved in the developments of state-of-the-art simulation methodologies as well as applications to real materials at different length (from nanoscopic to macroscopic) and time (from pico-secs to secs) scales. The deliberations of the ACCMS -1 will cover topics such as density functional theory-based methods, Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, tight-binding and effective medium approaches, order-N methods, mixed-basis methods, quasi-continuum approaches, quantum Monte Carlo, genetic algorithm, etc and their application to different materials.

The proceedings of the Conference will be published in a special issue of Bulletin of Materials Science (http://www.ias.ac.in/matersci). Participants giving oral/poster presentation should bring the manuscripts (with length up to 5000 words) in the required format at the time of the Conference. Articles will be refereed.

Accommodation will be arranged in guest houses and hotels as per the requirements of the participants subject to availability. Accommodation in a hotel will be at an extra cost to be borne by the participant. Indication of the type of accommodation should be given in the registration form.

Partial support may be offered on request, to a limited number of young participants below the age of 35 years. In addition, we will provide full support except for the waiver of registration fee to 25 student participants from India.

There will be prizes for the best poster presentations by young researchers.

Dr. Umesh Waghmare and Dr. G. P. Das,

Joint Conveners, ACCMS - 1

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

Jakkur, Bangalore 560 064, INDIA

E-mail: accms@jncasr.ac.in Fax: +91-80-8462766 Tel: +91-80-8462750-7

URL : http://www.jncasr.ac.in/accms

( online registration available: http://www.jncasr.ac.in/accms/reg.html )

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Accommodation needed for ACCMS-1 (dates and type: Hotel/Guest-house)

For participants from abroad: : US$100

For participants from India: Rs 2000 Students from India Rs 500

This includes conference literature, abstracts booklet and session tea/coffee expenses and lunch, but excludes accommodation charge.

(a) Demand draft or banker's cheque payable to: ACCMS- I, at Bangalore

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