This June 22–25, UW–Madison hosted the Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods (ESW26 – Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods) for the first time since the series began in 1989, with Professor Yuan Ping serving as local chair under an international steering committee. Link to news.
The meeting at Memorial Union brought together 119 researchers in person and another 108 online. The program featured new methods for predicting properties that were previously out of reach, along with advances in computational efficiency and accuracy, applied to molecules, liquids, and solids. It also included a special symposium on “Predictive Theory for Non-Equilibrium Quantum Many-Body Systems,” supported by DOE’s Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Computational and Theoretical Chemistry programs. Our group led a tutorial on first-principles open quantum dynamics for coupled spin, electrons, and phonons in solids. Support came from DOE BES, NSF CMMT, CECAM, APS/Physical Review Letters (poster awards), and Microsoft Quantum, with campus support from the Grainger Institute, the Theoretical Chemistry Institute, the Wisconsin MRSEC, and the Department of Physics.
Congratulations to Professor Ping and the entire organizing team on a highly successful international workshop!