Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

Next Generation Extended Lagrangian First Principles Molecular Dynamics

• Online Seminar
• Date: May 14, 2020
• Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Anders M.N. Niklasson
• Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
• Location: Join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89740304941?pwd=YnN5eU84VkxtZ0YwU1p0K3JMeEJEdz09 | Webinar ID: 897 4030 4941 | Password: FAIRDI2020
• Host: Christian Carbogno
• Contact: christian.carbogno@fhi-berlin.mpg.de

Quantum-based Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (QMD) simulations, where the interatomic forces are calculated on the fly from a relaxed quantum-mechanical description of the electronic structure in each time step, is often considered the gold standard for molecular dynamics simulations. [more]