MARVEL Fest: party-ing away
Event details
| Date | 09.07.2026 |
| Hour | 09:00 › 19:00 |
| Speaker | Several speakers |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Registration is required. Please register here to confirm your attendance by June 30.
On July 9, 2026, the MARVEL Final Event "MARVEL Fest: party-ing away" at EPFL will close 12 years of research and activities on computational materials science. This event will be dedicated to the accomplishments of MARVEL and to the relevance of these to the industrial and technological ecosystem, inviting alumni and key players worldwide in academia and industry, SNSF review panel, scientific and industrial advisory boards, EPFL leadership, and scientific journalists.
09:00 - Welcome and introduction: Nicola Marzari (MARVEL Director, EPFL)
09:15 - The quantum of materials
Chair: Joost VandeVondele
11:30 - The design of materials
Chair: TBC
12:55 - Lunch
14:15 - Round Table: The future of materials
Chair: Nicola Nosengo
Chair: Michele Ceriotti
16:45 - The materials community
Chair: Sara Bonella
19:00 - End
On July 9, 2026, the MARVEL Final Event "MARVEL Fest: party-ing away" at EPFL will close 12 years of research and activities on computational materials science. This event will be dedicated to the accomplishments of MARVEL and to the relevance of these to the industrial and technological ecosystem, inviting alumni and key players worldwide in academia and industry, SNSF review panel, scientific and industrial advisory boards, EPFL leadership, and scientific journalists.
09:00 - Welcome and introduction: Nicola Marzari (MARVEL Director, EPFL)
09:15 - The quantum of materials
Chair: Joost VandeVondele
- Quantum and AI for a Future of Materials Marvels
Matthias Troyer (Microsoft) - Title TBC
Ana Akrap (University of Zagreb) - First-Principles Methods for Magnetotransport Calculations in Real Materials with WannierTools
Quansheng Wu (Institute of Physics - Chinese Academy of Sciences) - There’s Plenty of MARVEL at the Bottom: Quantum Materials from Topology to Technology and Industry
Antimo Marrazzo (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
11:30 - The design of materials
Chair: TBC
- From alchemy to AI and back
Anatole Von Lilienfeld (University of Toronto) - From Promising to Realistic Energy Materials
Julia Wiktor (Chalmers University of Technology) - Unraveling subnanocluster stability, fluxionality and adsorbate coverage with MLIPs
Rubén Laplaza Solanas (University of Sevilla)
12:55 - Lunch
14:15 - Round Table: The future of materials
Chair: Nicola Nosengo
- Raffaela Cabriolu (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
- Anya Gryn’ova (University of Birmingham)
- Giulia Mangione (Stellantis)
- Kevin Jablonka (Technical University of Munich)
- Senja Barthel (Vrije Universitet Amsterdam)
Chair: Michele Ceriotti
- The MARVELous age of atomistic machine learning
Jigyasa Nigam (MIT, Boston) - Sample-efficient design of molecules and materials — towards synthesis
Philippe Schwaller (EPFL, Lausanne) - Enabling Catalyst Innovation with Machine Learning: Connecting High‑Throughput Computation and Experiment
Sandip De (BASF, Germany)
16:45 - The materials community
Chair: Sara Bonella
- From Research Communities to AI‑enhanced Collectives: Why the Social Fabric of Science Matters More Than Ever
Barbara Montanari (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK) - Electronic-structure research and community in sub-Saharan Africa: a personal and a collective journey
Garu Gebreyesus (University of Ghana) - Project GlasAgent - Building blocks for agentic glass development
Leopold Talirz (SCHOTT, Germany)
19:00 - End
Practical information
- Informed public
- Registration required
Organizer
Contact
- Francesca Olgiati, MARVEL Program Manager