School Program
Conference Schedule
Five days of lectures, tutorials, and hands-on sessions
All times are in Beijing Time (UTC+8). Last Update on Jul 10.
Conference Materials
Essential documents for participants
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.
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
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:
- Ab initio PIMD simulations
- Path Integral Metadynamics
- RPMD & CMD
- Path integral coarse graining
- Indistinguishable Particles
- Building your path integral simulations
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Contributed Talks & Poster Sessions
Share your research through contributed talks and interactive poster sessions
Contributed Talks
Oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts, offering authors an opportunity to present their latest research in detail to the conference audience.
Poster Sessions
Interactive sessions with dedicated time for in-depth discussions with fellow researchers. All accepted abstracts will be assigned a poster slot.