This week (February, 22-25) we are taking part in the 34th edition of the Center for Simulational Physics Workshop, which has the theme “Recent Developments in Computer Simulational Studies in Condensed Matter Physics“. For the first time in over three decades the workshop is taking place online, instead of in Athens, Georgia.

This annual workshop series highlights advances in applications, algorithms, and parallel implementations of computer simulation methods for the study of condensed matter systems. It features topics such as Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics, and other numerical studies of material growth, structural and magnetic phase transitions, polymers, surfaces and interfaces, strongly correlated electron systems and exotic quantum phases, granular flow, diffusion, membranes and protein folding. 

My talk, entitled “Electronic structure, mechanical and heat transport properties of pentadiamond: First-principles calculations and machine-trained potentials“, deals with our most recent results on pentadiamond, a material which was recently predicted to exist in nature. It is a great pleasure to participate in this exciting event, even if online.

The 34th Annual Center for Simulational Physics Workshop