The Lennard-Jones Centre is organising a “summer school light” on atomistic simulation, principally aimed at PhD students who started between October 2025 and October 2026, inclusive. Each day will take a different topic, with introductory lectures by a mix of faculty and young researchers from the LJC (Cambridge) and the Thomas Young Centre (London), and hands-on tutorials in the afternoon.  

On Tuesday evening, a Soirée will be held in the Howard Building at Downing College, comprising of a lecture given by Prof. Angel Rubio, with drinks and nibbles afterwards, to which the whole community is invited. 

The summer school is “light” because participants organise their own accommodation (hopefully most of you already have Cambridge or London accommodation already), and all you need to participate in the tutorials is a laptop. Lunches will be provided every day (in the foyer of the Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre), but not dinners (except the nibbles at the Soirée on Tuesday). 

The cost is £150 for 5-day participation. Students coming from outside Cambridge (e.g. TYC students coming from London, or students from participating Max Planck research groups) can either pay the same and attend all week, or pay a reduced £75 fee for any 2 days (including the Soirée). Billing is via interdepartmental or inter-institutional invoice so please when you register also check with your supervisor.

Please complete this short form to register for attendance to the school https://forms.gle/1vqDDA4M6bcdLCWb8  

If you are a supervisor expecting new students in October, please pass this message on to them as they are unlikely to be on our mailing list yet (they can subscribe here https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-ljc)

LJC Management Team:

Fabian Berger
Gábor Csányi
Seán Kavanagh
Angelos Michaelides
Chris Pickard
Mariana Rossi
Christoph Schran

Schedule:

	Monday 28th September	Tuesday 29th September	Wednesday 30th September	Thursday 1st October	Friday 2nd October
	Electronic Structure	Materials Discovery, PES exploration	Molecular Dynamics	ML in atomistic simulations	Response & Spectroscopy
9:30-10:45	Timo Lebeda: Intro to DFT	Chris Pickard	Joe Greener: molecular dynamics	Will Baldwin	Seán Kavanagh
11:00-12:30	George Booth: failures of DFT	David Wales	Stuart Althorpe: Quantum Path integral methods	Ilyes Batatia	Thomas Sayer
Lunch (BMS Foyer)
14:00-16:00	Maria Andrea Filip: (Quantum) Monte Carlo (1.5h)	Peter Cooke: tutorial	Roman Staňo: MD tutorial	Bradley Martin tutorial	Bartomeu Monserrat (1.5h)
16:00-17:00	tutorial	David Wales: tutorial	Alexandre Blanco González: tutorial	Joe+Isaac tutorial	Mariana Rossi: tutorial
17:30 – 20:30		LJC Soirée + Lecture (Angel Rubio) Downing College, Howard Building

The online version will be updated as lecturers provide titles https://ljc.group.cam.ac.uk/ljc-events/summer-school-atomic-scale-modeling

Please direct any questions to LJC-Admin@ch.cam.ac.uk

What to bring:

• Yourself
• Your laptop

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