Welcome to CHASAM 2026, a five-day school on modern atomistic simulation held at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, from September 28 to October 2, 2026.
This hands-on school is aimed at PhD students, postdocs, and early-career researchers in materials science, physics, and chemistry. Over five days you will learn to train and fine-tune machine-learned interatomic potentials, run molecular dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo simulations, compute thermodynamic and dynamical properties at finite temperature, predict experimental spectra (neutron scattering, X-ray diffraction, Raman, infrared) directly from simulations, and analyze simulation trajectories.
Topics include short-range as well as long-range charge-aware potentials, nuclear quantum effects via path-integral MD, free-energy methods, enhanced sampling, and connecting simulations to experiment.
The format combines lectures by international experts with hands-on tutorials using GPUMD, calorine, NEP, MACE, dynasor, OVITO, and ASE. You are encouraged to bring your own research project for guided exploration with instructors. The school awards 2 ECTS upon completion.
Participation is limited. Registration deadline is 30 June 2026. Sign up here.
Hosted at Chalmers University of Technology by Prof. Paul Erhart and Prof. Julia Wiktor.
This school is made possible thanks to generous support from the Area of Advance Materials at Chalmers and the Chalmers Academic Excellence Program.
