WE-Heraeus Summer School for Physics 2011

Computer Simulations on Nanotechnology for the Environment

July 3rd - 15th, 2011

Mankind is facing challenges such as global warming, the shortage of natural resources, and a sustainable energy supply. It is necessary to develop new technologies to meet these challenges, including alternative energy supplies, efficient ways to distribute over long distances and to store energy, and more efficient ways to transform energy. Moreover, new technologies shall be safe, environmental benign, and affordable. At the same time, simulations in physics and in material science are at the edge to change its paradigm: It will, in future, not only assist experimentalists to explain results, it will make valuable predictions to guide experimentalists to develop new materials with novel properties.

The WE-Heraeus Physics Summer School 2011 in the interdisciplinary education and training program will cover one foundation topic and two major research subjects in the field of environmental nanotechnology simulations, while both highlighting the strong computational component in practical exercises bridging between scales and knlowedge in different fields of science and engineering.

A)   Scalable methods for the simulation of processes in nanomaterials

B)   New nanomaterials with applications in mining and waste treatment and

C)   Novel functional nanomaterials for hydrogen economy

The WE-Heraeus Summer School 2011 is funded by the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Foundation.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Heine (School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Frauenheim (Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, BCCMS, University of Bremen, Germany)

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kleinekathöfer, School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Klüner (Fakultät V, Universität Oldenburg, Germany)