International Winter School 2025
The International Winter School-2025, “Frontiers in Materials Science”, is aimed at introducing frontier areas of research in materials science to graduate students, young researchers, and scientists with background in physics, chemistry and engineering.
The topics in this Winter School cover hard and soft materials, and those at the interface with Biology. These include chemistry and physics of transition-metal oxides and their functional properties; methods of high pressure, chemical and topo-chemical synthesis of materials; structural flexibility and disorder; spin ordering in crystals and magnetism; energy storage, conversion and transport, electrochemistry, ion transport, catalysis, porous solids, metal organic frameworks, 2-dimensional heterostructures, quantum and nano materials; spectroscopy, material characterization, opto electronics, structural, chemical and computational biology, soft materials, theory and computer simulations.
One-hour lectures given by leading scientists will provide a pedagogic view of the background and emerging ideas in a given area of materials science, and also cover research at the cutting edge through examples from their works.
Active participation of students and junior researchers is strongly encouraged through poster presentations, in addition to frequent interactions with the speakers.
Satellite Conference on Computer Simulations in Chemistry, Materials, and Biology
Molecular modelling and computer simulations have made significant breakthroughs in cross-disciplinary areas of scientific research. The conference will showcase their vital role towards the microscopic study of matter. It is conceived to revolve around themes of interest to Prof. Michael L Klein, Temple University, who has made pioneering contributions to the field ranging from method development, algorithms and their applications in materials science, chemistry and biological systems.