Seminars & Events

Exploration and design of materials across the scales Monday 26.08.2023 – Thursday 29.08.2024 an International Summer School organized by the Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCMS), the Dresden Center for Intelligent Materials (DCIM) and the D³ Research Training Group 2868. New and optimized materials are the key for a sustainable future. These materials are…

Congratulations to our member Marco Salvalaglio who has been appointed as Associate Professor of Computational Materials Science at the Institute of Scientific Computing / Faculty of Mathematics. Marco has been an Emmy Noether group leader at TU Dresden since 2021. He is a physicist by training and received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the…

We mourn the loss of our member Günter Radons. He passed away unexpectedly on 20.07.2024 at the age of 70. We have lost a highly esteemed colleague, researcher and friend. Our sincere condolences go out to his family. From 2000 until 2019, he has been heading a professorship for Theoretical Physics at TU Chemnitz. After…

Data-driven exploration and design of materials Monday 21.08.2023 – Thursday 24.08.2023 an International Summer School organized by the Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCMS), the Dresden Center for Intelligent Materials (DCIM) and the D³ Research Training Group 2868. New and optimized materials are the key for a sustainable future. These materials are developed more…

We are happy to announce the upcoming seminar by Prof. Brandon Runnels! This hybrid event is co-organized by the Institute of Scientific Computing, the Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCMS) and the Dresden Center for Intelligent Materials (DCIM). The mechanics of grain boundaries and microstructure evolution Prof. Dr. Brandon Runnels Associate Professor Mechanical &…

We are happy to announce the upcoming seminar by Prof. R. Mark Bradley! This hybrid event is co-organized by the Institute of Scientific Computing, the Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCMS) and the Dresden Center for Intelligent Materials (DCIM). Nanoscale Self-Organization Induced by Ion Bombardment of Solid Surfaces Prof. Dr. R. Mark Bradley Department…

Dimensions of Intelligence in Materials Monday 22.08.2022 – Thursday 25.08.2022 an International Summer School organized by the Dresden Center for Intelligent Materials (DCIM) and the Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCMS). Innovative materials are one of the key technologies for keeping products and industrial processes economically competitive and ecologically sustainable. Modern materials science requires a multi-discipline approach embracing…

We are happy to announce the upcoming DCMS Seminar by Prof. Shirin Faraji! Databased accelerated on-the-fly hybrid quantum/classical dynamics Shirin Faraji Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Netherlands May 5, 2022, 13:00 ZOOM-Link: https://tinyurl.com/nanoSeminar-GA Abstract Light-triggered processes, which are ubiquitous in nature and technology, are inherently quantum. Phenomena such as photovoltaic effect, charge…

On 1 March 2021, the new Emmy Noether research group “Mesoscale Material Modeling and Simulations (3MS)” started working at the Faculty of Mathematics at TU Dresden. Group leader Dr. Marco Salvalaglio, an Italian physicist and material scientist, will benefit from the interdisciplinary research environment at TU Dresden, closely cooperating with the Dresden Center of Computational…

We are happy to announce that the DCMS Seminar Series continues – now online. The first presentation in the series was given on 03.12.2020 by Dr. Marco Salvalaglio (TU Dresden), who spoke about his work on Mesoscale modeling of defects and interfaces in crystals by the amplitude phase-field crystal model. On 10.12.2020, Prof. Tristan Bereau…

MATERIALS 4.0: Materials Genome Engineering This year’s Summer School took place from Monday 17.08.2020 to Friday 21.08.2020 and involved more than 60 participants and 12 speakers. In order to provide the possibility to participate in the Materials 4.0 summer school 2020 under the global challenge imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided to have…

Large-scale, defect-free, micro- and nano-circuits with controlled inter-connections represent the nexus between electronic and photonic components. Through a synergic theoretical and experimental investigation, arrays of parallel ultra-long (up to 0.75 mm), monocrystalline, silicon-based nanowires, and complex, connected circuits are obtained exploiting low-resolution etching and annealing of thin silicon films on insulator. Phase-field simulations, predicting both…

Dr. Marco Salvalaglio (Ph.D. in Materials Science, 2016, University of Milano-Bicocca) is a theoretical material scientist, working at the crossroads between solid-state physics, computational material science and applied mathematics. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Scientific Computing at the Mathematics Department of TU-Dresden, which he first joined as an Alexander von Humboldt…

On September 27th, 2019, Prof. Gianaurelio Cuniberti was appointed Guest Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) for the period from September 2019 until August 2022. Prof. Zhongqin Lin, President of SJTU, handed over the Guest Professorship Certificate and appreciated the important role of Prof. Cuniberti in the international academic exchange between SJTU and TU…

On September 27, 2019, we signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MoU) with the “Materials Genome Initiative Center“ (MaGIC) at der Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). The goal of intensifying our partnership is to take advantage of the complementary synergies of DCMS and MaGIC and to establish an internationally leading research cluster in data-driven materials research….

DAY ONE This first day of the Summer School Materials 4.0 – Deep Mechanics started with the Welcome and Opening ceremony. On behalf of the organization team, Prof. Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Prof. Sybille Gemming and Prof. Markus Kästner gave a warm welcome to all the participants and speakers. They introduced the ideas of DCMS and the…

Materials Innovation Driven by Data and Knowledge Systems Prof. Surya R. Kalidindi Regents Professor George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering School of Computational Science and Engineering School of Materials Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Friday, August 23rd, 11:30 – 12:30 Görgesbau (Helmholtzstr. 9), room 229 Abstract: Emerging concepts and toolsets in Data…

Accelerated Material Discovery Federico Zipoli, PhD IBM Research Division, Cognitive Computing & Industry Solutions Dept., Zurich Research Laboratory Monday, August 19th, 10:30 – 11:30 Görgesbau (Helmholtzstr. 9), room 229 Abstract: Experiments and theory have been widely used to drive the discovery novel material. In the last decades, also simulations contributed to speed up innovation. In silico experiments became…

MATERIALS 4.0: Deep Mechanics Monday 19.08.2019 – Friday 23.08.2019 TU Dresden (Germany) Applications open in March!  Event page   This summer school is part of TU Dresden’s Institutional Strategy, funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments.

In the current QS University Ranking, TU Dresden is among the top 50 in the world for the first time in the field of materials science Dresden, 27th February 2019: In the “QS World University Ranking by Subject 2019” published today, TU Dresden has made it into the top 50 of the listed universities in…

TU Dresden welcomed His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. As part of his visit to Dresden, he was particularly interested in gaining an impression of the scientific work conducted at Saxony’s largest university and East Germany’s only University of Excellence with the exception of Berlin. Moreover, TU Dresden also has close ties to…

Materials researchers from both sides of the Channel intend to establish globally leading network The unique transCampus London–Dresden, which transcends national borders, is growing steadily. The two top academic institutions, King’s College London (KCL) and Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), are now extending their co-operation to the field of materials research. transCampus was launched in 2015…

The scientist Dr. Robert Biele has received the prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions research grant to explore thermoelectricity at the nanoscale together with Prof. Gianaurelio Cuniberti at the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology. Dr Biele did his PhD in the Nano-Bio-Spectroscopy Group at the University of the Basque Country in Spain and his research focuses…

DAYS FOUR AND FIVE The last two days of the summer school consisted of several talks about recent and ongoing research. A wide variety of topics were presented, such as optoelectronics and photovoltaics, discovery of magnetic materials, simulations for nanoelectronic engineering and thermal transport. Three participants presented their work in a dedicated session. On Friday,…

DAY THREE The third day started with Prof. Jörg Behler from the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen giving a very interesting lecture on high dimensional neural network potentials. After an exciting introduction to machine learning techniques, including pitfalls and potential artefacts, he showed how  ML techniques can be applied to constructing atomistic potentials relying on simple but very…

DAY TWO On the second day of the summer school, Prof. Cecilia Clementi (Rice University) gave a lecture on learning effective molecular models using machine learning methods. In particular, she addressed the problem to capture rare events – like protein folding – in molecular dynamics simulations and how to achieve long-time simulations using “short-time” data….

DAY ONE Day one of our international summer school Materials 4.0 – Deep Materials: Perspectives on data-driven materials research started with three lectures covering mathematical basics, practical usage and applications of machine learning methods. The first lecture was given by Prof. Roger French (Case Western University). He introduced the concept of big data and the resulting…

Deep Materials: Perspectives on data-driven materials research  Event page   This summer school is part of TU Dresden’s Institutional Strategy, funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments.

Can solids wet surfaces? Controlling the self-assemby of complex nano-architecture made of single-crystal silicon. Wettability of surfaces affects several natural phenomena and plays a crucial role in practical applications such as printing, adhesion, lubrication, etc. Several thin-films made of organic and inorganic materials tend to break-up in small drops when processed at high temperatures, still…

The digitally enabled atom to system revolution Photo gallery  Event page   This summer school is part of TU Dresden’s Institutional Strategy, funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments.

International summer school MATERIALS 4.0 Heterogeneous dislocation density modeling of interstitial free steel Prof. Dr. David Field, Washington State University Friday, Sept. 15th, 11:00 – 12:00 Görgesbau (Helmholtzstr. 9), room 229 Abstract: A polycrystalline interstitial free steel sample was plastically deformed under uniaxial tensile stress at room temperature and a low strain rate. The microstructure of the…

International summer school MATERIALS 4.0 Rational Computational Materials Design using Quantum Confinement or Beyond Structural Materials Engineering Prof. Dr. Thomas Heine, University of Leipzig Friday, Sept. 15th, 9:30 – 10:30 Görgesbau (Helmholtzstr. 9), room 229 Abstract: Quantum confinement is one of the design principles in nanotechnology. Well-known examples are quantum dots, which are nanocrystals whose electronic band…

International summer school MATERIALS 4.0 Materials Data Space – Roadmap to Industry 4.0- ready Materials Prof. Dr. Ralf B. Wehrspohn (Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS) Wednesday, Sept. 13th, 18:00 – 19:30 Görgesbau (Helmholtzstr. 9), room 229 Abstract: New materials are the key drivers in the development of innovative products in the manufacturing sector….

International summer school MATERIALS 4.0 The Art and Science of Constructing a Physics-Based Memristor Model Dr. Stanley Williams (HP) Tuesday, Sept. 12th, 16:00 – 17:00 Görgesbau (Helmholtzstr. 9), room 229 Abstract: Since the publication of “The Missing Memristor Found” in 2008, there have been many thousands of papers published on the topic of memristors.  However, very few…

International summer school MATERIALS 4.0 Bio/Nano/CMOS interfaces for Ultrasensitive Memristive Biosensors Sandro Carrara / EPFL Lausanne (CH) Tuesday, Sept. 12th, 9:00 – 10:30 Görgesbau (Helmholtzstr. 9), room 229 Abstract: In this Distinguished Lecture, the very best worldwide ever-reported electrochemical biosensors based on a memristive effect and aptamers or antibodies are presented. These novel sensing devices are developed…

Concepts, Challenges, and Results of the NOMAD (Novel Materials Discovery) Laboratory Dr. Pasquale Pavone* Thursday, July 13 13:00 – 14:00 Seminar Room 115, Hallwachsstr. 3 (HAL) Abstract: The NOMAD (Novel Materials Discovery) Laboratory Center of Excellence (CoE), https://NOMAD-CoE.eu, is a community-driven activity with the mission to serve the whole field of materials science and engineering….

On Thursday, December 15, 2016, Prof. Kwang S. Kim from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea will visit DCMS and give a Seminar Presentation (at 13:00 in the Seminar Room in Hallwachsstraße 3) titled “High-Performance Computing and Multi-Scale Simulations: Predictions for Excited Electrons and Ultrafast Electron-Ion Dynamics in Complex Materials”….

On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Prof. Nicola Marzari (EPFL) will give a talk within the Seminar Series of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Dynamical Processes in Atoms, Molecules and Solids organized together with our center. The Seminar consists of a short pre-talk on “Molecular Switches on Dangling Bond Circuits” given by a…

Our member Sascha Heitkam recieved the 2015 Klaus Tschira Award for comprehensible science (“Klaus Tschira Preis für verständliche Wissenschaft” ) which is granted annualy to scienctists in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience and Physics who have defended an excellent PhD thesis and present their results in a short, generally understandable and exciting text. Sascha…

On Monday, November 23, 2015 we had our Annual Workshop and General Assembly. We took this opportunity to present our Graduate School CoSiMa, to present and discuss the recent developments and future plans in DCMS. For the scientific presentations, we have invited Prof. Sabine Roller (Universität Siegen, member in our Scientific Advisory Board), Prof. Alexander…

You are invited to join our Annual Workshop and General Assembly on Monday, November 23, 2015. The meeting will take place in Festsaal Rektorat, TU Dresen, Mommsenstraße 11, 01069 Dresden (Link to Google Maps). Tentative agenda: Register here!

Visit our Youtube Channel and watch the first DCMS Video Pill with Prof. Massimiliano Di Ventra from UCSD, DRESDENfellow visiting the Cuniberti group in July 2015. Enjoy!

Visit us in Hallwachsstraße 3 and discover the world of nanotechnology and Computational Materials Science by playing with molecules on the computer and in reality!

 Memcomputing: computing with and in memory using collective states Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Di Ventra( Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA) Thursday, July 9  13:00 – 14:00, Seminar Room 115, Hallwachsstr. 3 (HAL), TU Dresden. Abstract: I will discuss a novel computing paradigm we named memcomputing inspired by the operation of…

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sabine Roller studied technical maths (Technomathematik) at University of Karlsruhe (TU). She got her PhD in Aerospace Engineering at University of Stuttgart. She founded and lead the „Scalable Computing & Coupled Systems“ group at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). At RWTH Aachen University, she held a professorship on „Applied Supercomputing in Engineering“…

The Kick-Off Meeting of our center took place at on November 26th, 2013 in Zeuner building, room 252. The involved parties presented goals and actions of the center and discuss next moves. The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who contributed to the development of powerful computer models to simulate…

On Friday, June 5, 2015, we presented a nanoSeminar Workshop on current topics of molecular electronics with two world-known experts from Israel and the USA. 10:45 – 11:30 Speaker:    Prof. Abraham Nitzan, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Title:          “Transport and spectroscopy in illuminated molecular junctions“. 12:30 – 13:15 Speaker:    …