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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FR" lang="EN-US"> The third edition of the ICAMM conference
(International Conference on Advanced Materials Modelling) will
be held at the "Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel" (IMN),
Nantes, France, from Monday, July 7th to Wednesday, July 9th,
2014. In connection to this event, the 21st WIEN2k workshop will
be held from Wednesday, July 2nd to Saturday, July 5th, 2014. <br>
<br>
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EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" lang="EN-US">Full details are
on the website: </span></strong><span
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"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:FR"><a
href="http://www.cnrs-imn.fr/ICAMM2014/" target="_blank"><strong><span
style="color:blue;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">http://www.cnrs-imn.fr/ICAMM2014/</span></strong></a></span><strong><span
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<br>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FR" lang="EN-US">The deadline for abstract submission and
applications for a student/postdoc bursary has been extended to
March 30th. <br>
<br>
You can register here:</span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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FR" lang="EN-US"><a
href="http://www.cnrs-imn.fr/ICAMM2014/index.php/fr/pre-registration"
target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.cnrs-imn.fr/ICAMM2014/index.php/fr/pre-registration</span></a><br>
<br>
As mentionned in the second announcement very attractive
conference fees are available for selected PhD students and
postdoc:<br>
- only 200 € (instead of 550 €) for a participation to the 7
days (WIEN2k and ICAMM)<br>
- only 175 € (instead of 450 €) for a participation to the 3
days of ICAMM conference.<br>
<br>
We are also proposing an activity on Sunday 6th. It will be one
day off in between the WIEN2k workshop and the ICAMM conference.
For our Sunday activity we are pleased to propose an excursion
to the beautiful inland scenery of nearby Brittany, taking in a
visit to the traditional salt-flats, the preserved natural
wetlands of Briere, and the beautifully restored walled medaeval
town of Guerande.</span></p>
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line-height:normal"><span
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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FR" lang="EN-US"><a
href="http://www.cnrs-imn.fr/ICAMM2014/index.php/fr/around-the-conference"
target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.cnrs-imn.fr/ICAMM2014/index.php/fr/around-the-conference</span></a></span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FR" lang="EN-US">All the best</span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FR" lang="EN-US">Florent Boucher, Chris Ewels, and Xavier
Rocquefelte<br>
On behalf of the ICAMM organizing committee </span></p>
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line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3"><strong><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-language:FR">Confirmed WIEN2k tutors </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" lang="EN-US">Prof. Peter Blaha,
Prof. Karlheinz Schwarz, Dr. Robert Laskowski, Dr. Fabien
Tran, Prof. Stefaan Cottenier, Dr. Kevin Jorissen, Dr. Elias
Assman<br>
</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3"><strong><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-language:FR">ICAMM-2014 Invited speakers </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" lang="EN-US">Prof. Sharon
Ashbrook</span></strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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FR" lang="EN-US"><br>
University of St Andrews, UK<br>
<em>Development of new methods in solid-state NMR,
first-principles calculations of NMR parameters in the solid
state</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" lang="EN-US">Prof. Bertram
Batlogg</span></strong><span
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FR" lang="EN-US"><br>
ETH Zürich, Switzerland<br>
<em>Creating and understanding materials and their novel
physical phenomena (high temperature superconductors, quantum
magnets, oxide superconductors, heavy fermion compounds,
mixed-valence compounds...)</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" lang="EN-US">Dr. Elena
Bichoutskaia</span></strong><span
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Roman","serif";
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FR" lang="EN-US"><br>
University of Nottingham, UK<br>
<em>Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (carbon
nanomaterials, van der Waals forces, gas storage...)</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:FR">Prof. Régis Gautier</span></strong><span
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Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, ENSCR, Rennes, France<br>
<em>Bonding and structure-properties relationships, solid-state
NMR parameters</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" lang="EN-US">Prof. Frank de
Groot</span></strong><span
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR"
lang="EN-US"><br>
Utrecht University, Netherlands<br>
<em>Synchrotron and Theoretical Spectroscopy of Catalytic
Nanomaterials</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" lang="EN-US">Dr. Anubhav Jain</span></strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
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lang="EN-US"><br>
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA<br>
<em>The Materials Project: A Public Materials Database</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" lang="EN-US">Prof. Steven G.
Louie</span></strong><span
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Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FR" lang="EN-US"><br>
University of California at Berkeley, USA<br>
<em>Theoretical condensed matter physics and nanoscience
(quasiparticle and optical excitations, reduced-dimensional
systems, superconductivity; ab initio pseudopotential theory;
topological insulators...)</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" lang="EN-US">Dr. Lucia Reining</span></strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR"
lang="EN-US"><br>
École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France<br>
<em>Many-body theory and first principles calculations of
electronic excitations and spectroscopy (ETSF)</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" lang="EN-US">Dr. Oleg Rubel</span></strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR"
lang="EN-US"><br>
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada<br>
<em>Berry phase in WIEN2k, piezoelectrics for therapeutic
ultrasound, optoelectronics...</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><strong><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FR" lang="EN-US">Prof. Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier</span></strong><span
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12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" lang="EN-US"><br>
Northwestern University, USA<br>
<em>Inorganic and Solid State Chemistry (solvothermal synthesis,
transparent conductors, catalytic oxides, oxyfluorides...)</em>
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