Scidac centers and SAPs

• TOPS (http://www.scidac.gov/math/TOPS.html):  development of communication-avoiding linear algebra algorithms for parallel, multi-core architecture (Bai).  
• COMPASS (http://www.scidac.gov/physics/COMPASS.html):  nonlinear eigenvalue problems (Bai).
• PETAMAT (http://www.scidac.gov/matchem/petamat.html): highly correlated systems (Pickett and the UCD part of the team).

Conferences, Workshops and Schools

• Scidac Conference 2007, June 2007, Boston, MA [Galli part of the organizing committee: http://www.scidac.gov/Conference2007/SD07OC.html].

• CECAM workshop on "Linear-scaling ab initio calculations: applications and future directions", September 2007, Lyon, France [Fattebert part of the organizing committee
  http://www.cecam.org/workshop-147.html].

• 20th Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, June 2008, UIUC, Illinois [Ceperley chair:
  http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/workshops/electronicstructure/2008/].

• 21th Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, June 2009, UCD, California [Pickett chair; Galli and Gygi part of the organizing committee].

• Workshop on “Building Bridges between Computational Mathematics and Electronic Structure”, June 2008, UIUC, Illinois [Ceperly organizer:http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/workshops/appliedmath/2008/].

• Symposium on “Weak Interaction Phenomena—Modeling and Simulation from First Principles”, 2008 MRS Spring Meeting, April 2008, San Francisco, CA [Schwegler organizer: http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/doc.asp?CID=12382&DID=205204]

• Symposium on “Computational Nanoscience: how to exploit synergy between theory and experiments”, 2009 MRS Spring Meeting, April 2009, San Francisco, CA [Galli co-organizer, Spaldin meeting chair: http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/doc.asp?CID=17622&DID=228241].

• Symposium on “Advances in electronic structure and dynamical methods”, 2009 ACS  Spring National Meeting [Galli co-organizer: http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/237nm/techprogram/].

• Summer School on Materials Modeling from First-Principles: Theory and Practice--July 19th to August 1st 2009-- International Center for Materials Research (ICMR) at UCSB [Marzari and Galli co-organizers]