The two-week Summer School offers lectures by premier scientists and provides hands-on computer lab experience with key software, often led by the software developers themselves.

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Summer School on Computational Materials
ScienceProviding education on frontier research
techniques
WHY IT MATTERS The Summer Schools are a
centralized place for learning new methods,
speaking one-on-one with experts, and identifying
potential collaborators. On a follow-up survey,
80 of respondents said they expect to have
science-related discussions with another
participant or instructor in the future. By
distributing knowledge from large institutions to
other universities, the School supplements the
educational experience at smaller institutions
and keeps a larger number of young researchers
competitive. Scientists who cannot attend due to
timing or space constraints can access the
websites presentation slides, input/output
files, and video lectures.
The two-week Summer School offers lectures by
premier scientists and provides hands-on computer
lab experience with key software, often led by
the software developers themselves. Within the
framework of selecting appropriate and diverse
participants, the school is focused on 1)
students and faculty at smaller state
institutions, and 2) women and under-represented
minorites.
Thanks for letting my graduate student attend
the summer school. He is just fantastically
excited... I take it from conversations with him
that the school was extremely helpful for his
work. As a smaller university, UMBC simply
cannot always provide graduate-level courses in
theory, and therefore the 2006 summer school was
just needed. Dr. Susan K. Gregurick,
Assistant Professor University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, Chemistry
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• Diverse backgrounds enrich school
  experienceParticipants indicate that meeting
  potential collaborators is among the top
  benefits of attending summer schools. The School
  Committee chose participants to achieve variety
  and balance between
• Students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty
• Small and large schools
• Academic environments and national research labs
• Domestic and international applicants
• Different research groups
• Primary area of study (chemistry and physics)

Presentations by faculty participants Two junior
faculty participants gave invited talks about the
teaching and research environments at their home
institutions, the University of Jordan and
Prairie View AM University. Education and
Research in Jordan, Challenges Outlook (B.
Hamad, .ppt) Nano-scale Modeling with
Undergraduates (H. Fan, .pdf)
Dr. Huajun Fan Prairie View AM
UniversityDepartment of Chemistry
Dr. Bothina Hamad University of
JordanDepartment of Physics
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TOPIC LOCATION The Summer School covered ab
initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation Methods in
Chemistry the use and programming of
high-performance computing, electronic structure
calculations, and structural optimization. The
Summer Schools are held at University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign campus. This years School
took place July 31August 11, 2006. SPONSORS
National Science Foundation Materials
Computation Center, UIUC National Center for
Supercomputing Applications, UIUC
Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory,
UIUC Computational Science and Engineering
Program, UIUC The National Center for
Supercomputing Applications provided the School
with computing access, videography support, and
meeting space (computer labs and lecture
hall). WEBSITE http//www.mcc.uiuc.edu/summerscho
ol/2006/
INSTRUCTORS Stefano Baroni, Sissa Trieste
Brett Bode, Iowa State University Victor
Batista, Yale University Thom Dunning, UIUC
Marcus Elstner, University of Heidelberg
Dave Ennis, Ohio Supercomputer Center Guido
Fratesi, University of Milan Paolo Giannozzi,
Scuola Normale Superiore Srinivasan Iyengar,
Indiana University Axel Kohlmeyer, University
of Pennsylvania Glenn Martyna, IBM
Spiridoula Matsika, Temple University Nicola
Marzari, MIT Lubos Mitas, North Carolina
State University Jason Quenneville, Los Alamos
National Lab Alejandro Strachan, Purdue
University ORGANIZERS AIMD T. Martínez, D.
Ceperley, R. Martin, and D. Johnson
(UIUC)  QuantumESPRESSO N. Marzari (MIT) and
P. Giannozzi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa,
and DEMOCRITOS, Trieste) High-Performance
Computing J. Kim (UIUC)