School Program

Conference Schedule

Five days of lectures, tutorials, and hands-on sessions

All times are in Beijing Time (UTC+8)

Advanced School & Hands-On Tutorials

The Advanced School features a hybrid format combining online preparation with intensive on-site hands-on tutorials. This structure ensures all participants arrive with foundational knowledge and can dive directly into cutting-edge applications using the i-PI software package.

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Phase 1: Online Preparation

📚 REQUIRED PREREQUISITE

All participants must complete the online Path Integral MOOC before attending the on-site school. This self-paced course covers essential theoretical foundations.

Access the MOOC →

MOOC Topics:

  • Molecular Dynamics and Sampling
  • The basics of path integrals
  • Advanced path integral methods
  • Ring Polymer molecular dynamics
  • Colored-noise methods
  • Path integral in the era of machine learning
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Phase 2: On-site Advanced Tutorials

🔬 HANDS-ON LEARNING

Cutting-edge computational methods using i-PI, an open-source software for path integral molecular dynamics. All tutorials run on cloud-based infrastructure — no local installation needed!

Tutorial Topics:

  • Ring polymer contraction
  • Advanced thermostats
  • Approximate real-time correlation functions
  • Free energy methods
  • Ab initio PIMD simulations
  • ML interaction potentials
  • Path integral coarse graining
  • Bosonic and fermionic PIMD
  • Hands-on setup for participants' own research

Computing Environment: Fudan Cloud Platform

Cloud-based JupyterHub

Access from your browser, no installation required

Pre-configured Software Stack

Ready-to-use environment with all dependencies

Pre-installed Software:

i-PI LAMMPS CP2K FHI-AIMS MACE

What to bring: Just your laptop with internet access! All computational resources and software are provided via the Fudan Cloud Platform.

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Lightning Talks & Poster Sessions

Share your research through lightning talks and interactive poster sessions

Lightning Talks

Rapid-fire presentations to spark interest and conversations. Perfect for highlighting key findings and encouraging deeper discussions at poster sessions.

Poster Sessions

Interactive sessions with dedicated time for in-depth discussions with fellow researchers. All accepted abstracts will be assigned a poster slot.