Post-Conference Report The 9th Conference of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (ACCMS-9)

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1 Post-Conference Report The 9th Conference of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (ACCMS-9) August 8-11, 2017 Berjaya Time Square Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SPECIAL SPONSORS PAGE 1

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4 OVERVIEW The 9th Conference of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (ACCMS-9) was held from August at the Berjaya Time Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference was jointly organized by University of Malaya and other collaborating institutions. The Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (ACCMS) was established in year 2000 to promote and nurture computational materials science research, particularly in Asian countries. The ACCMS-9 is the biannual meeting on computational materials science after the most recent 8th Conference of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (ACCMS-8) held in Taipei, Taiwan on June It is the main conference series of ACCMS, which offers the environment for promoting international discussion on the progress in computational materials science, and it related areas. ACCMS-9 Participants at the first day (August 9, 2017) of the event PAGE 3

5 PARTICIPANTS Number of ACCMS-9 Participants by Country Country [left] and Region [right] Representations of ACCMS-9 ACCMS-9 attracted 223 delegates from 17 countries and regions. The largest percentage of overall conference attendance came from Asian. The delegates were from Australia, Canada, P. R. China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United States, United Kingdom and Vietnam. The top two countries PAGE 4

6 with the largest representation were Malaysia (the host country) (29%) and Japan (25 %), followed by Thailand, Taiwan and South Korea. Among them, the participants from Indonesia and Philippines were the two new countries that represented this conference series of ACCMS. The ACCMS-9 meeting features 3 plenary lectures, over 100 invited speeches, 30 oral talks scheduled in 3 parallel sessions and 1 poster session with 50 poster presentations on 8 major areas of interest in the studies of computational materials science, and related areas. The 3 plenary lectures were delivered by Prof. Enge Wang of Peking University (P. R. China), Prof. Kaoru Ohno of Yokohama National University (Japan) and Prof. Mei-Yin Chou of Academia Sinica (Taiwan). List chronologically, these plenary talks were: 1. Chemical Reactions of Iron Corrosion, Prof. Kaoru Ohno of Yokohama National University 2. Nature of Water on Surface, Prof. Enge Wang of Peking University 3. Computational Studies of Novel Two-Dimensional Materials and Their Heterostructures, Prof. Mei-Yin Chou of Academia Sinica Dr Liew Chee Sun who lead the UM Data-intensive Computing Centre (DICC) of University of Malaya delivered a special talk on Facilitating Scientific Knowledge Discovery Using High Performance and Data-intensive Computing. There were 5 industry talks given by major companies including Biolin Scientific & Kulim Hi-Tech Sdn. Bnd., Krüss Gmbh & Ficher-Intermass (M) Sdn. Bhd., Denova Sciences Pte. Ltd, Anton Paar Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., and Agilent Technologies & LabAlliance Sdn. Bhd. PAGE 5

7 PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT In addition to the main conference of ACCMS-9, a full-day preconference workshop on first-principles all-electron mixed basis calculations with the Tohoku Mixed-Basis Orbitals ab-initio (TOMBO) code was held on A ugust 8, 2017 at the Berjaya Time Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. The TOMBO workshop was attended by about 40 participants from Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam. Prof. Yoshiyuki Kawazoe of Tohoku University, Prof. Kaoru Ohno of Yokohama National University and Dr Ryoji Sahara of National Institute for Materials Science were the main speakers of TOMBO workshop. There were also oral presentations delivered by TOMBO users in the workshop. The next TOMBO workshop aims to be a two-day event with more TOMBO users sharing their recent results using TOMBO codes. TOMBO Workshop Participants and Speakers at the end of the event PAGE 6

8 OUTSTANDING AWARDS Top: [from left to right] Prof. Y. Kawazoe, Assoc. Prof. K-H Chew, Dr Hiroshi Mizuseki, Mr Pongdet Netrattana, Mr Wei Lim Chong and Mr Wonseok Jeong. Bottom [left]: The ACCMS Mid- Career Award Plaque. Bottom [right]: [from left to right] Dr Sek Peng Chin Prof. Y. Kawazoe, Ms Hadieh Monajemi and Assoc. Prof. K-H Chew. PAGE 7

9 In the ACCMS-9 meeting, the ACCMS Mid-career award was presented to Dr. Hiroshi Mizuseki of Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Korea) for his outstanding scientific contribution in the area of computational material science. The winners for best oral presentation awards were Dr Sek Peng Chin (best presentation) of University of Malaya (Malaysia), Dr Maaouia Souissi of National Institute for Materials Science (Japan), and Ms Hadieh Monajemi of University of Malaya (Malaysia). Mr Pongdet Netrattana (best poster award) of Kasetsart University (Thailand), Mr Wonseok Jeong of Seoul National University (Korea) and Mr Wei Lim Chong of University of Malaya (Malaysia) won the poster presentation awards or the Kawazoe prizes. TESTIMONIALS AND COMMENTS Congratulations for organizing a very successful conference! It was a very nice and enjoyable conference. Feng Yuan Ping, National University of Singapore, Singapore Thank you very much for your well organize this conference. I enjoy it very much. Nguyen Nguyen Pham Tran, Vietnam National University, Vietnam Thanks to you and Members of your team for organizing such a beautiful conference. Thank you for making me a part. Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India Congratulations on a highly successful meeting. I am so please to see new participants from other Asian countries. John S. Tse, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Many thanks indeed to you and the LOC for great effort in preparing the ACCMS-9 with highly professional way. As a result we have a very successful conference in Malaysia and take with us a very good memory about the KL. Duc Nguyen-Manh, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK You and Prof. Rauzah did a great job in organizing the two conferences. I enjoyed KL Kaito Takahashi, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Congratulations to the big successful conference. Thank you for all your efforts and kindness. I enjoyed my visit in Malaysia very much. Enge Wang, Peking University, P. R. China Thank you very much for your time and effort on ACCMS9. We enyoyed the meeting and sightseeing very much. Qiang Sun, Peking University, P. R. China Thank you so much for your hearty hospitality. You are great organizers. I enjoyed the conference, local food, active Kuala Lumpur, and meeting many friends. Masahiko Ichihashi, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan PAGE 8

10 Thank you for all the efforts to organize the excellent symposium. It was great time for me to meet the friends and talk about science in KL. Kwang-Ryeol Lee, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Congratulations on your successful conference. We have really enjoyed a lot of things during the meeting. Thank you so much for your taking care of us there. Qian Wang, Peking University, P. R. China Thank you for your efforts for organizing a VERY Successful ACCMS meeting! Yang Yong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China Thank you very much to you and the organizing commitee on the success of ACCMS. It was a wonderful experience. Somesh Kumar Bhattacharya, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan Congratulations for the successful ACCMS-9 conference you have organized. I also thank you all very much for inviting me for the conference that has given me a great opportunity to interact with other people actively working in computational materials science. Hope to see you all again in the next ACCMS meetings. M. Aziz Majidi, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia Thank you very much for organizing such a nice conference! Su Ying Quek, National University of Singapore, Singapore You and your entire team deserve a big Thank You for the excellent organization of the ACCMS- 9 Conference and the TOMBO Workshop. The quality of presentations, informal atmosphere for discussions, excellent food and hospitality and above all a superbly friendly atmosphere created in the conference venue --- all together have contributed to the success of this Meeting. It has also set the tone for the forthcoming Meetings of our ACCMS community. Gour P. Das, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India Thank you very much for your organizing the ACCMS. It was a wonderful conference. I spent a nice time. Hao Wang, Shanghai University, P. R. China Congratulations on the great success of ACCMS-9! I enjoyed very much my first visit to Malaysia and had stimulating interaction with materials scientists in Malaysia and other Asian countries. I am grateful to the hospitality of you and your staff members.. Akira Terasaki, Kyushu University, Japan Congratulation for you and the team on the successful conference! I appreciate and thank you for the invitation and all the arrangement that have been made. Yee Siew Choong, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. It was my pleasure to attend the great conference! I very much appreciate you to organize ACCMS9, and invite me. Ryoji Sahara, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan PAGE 9

11 Thank you very much for your message, your hospitality during the ACCMS-9, and your efforts for the preparation of ACCMS-9. And congratulation for the success of ACCMS-9. You and your colleagues did really a wonderful job! Satoshi Watanabe, University of Tokyo, Japan Thank you very much for organizing such a wonderful conference. Also I am happy and thankful that you invited me for it. This was my first visit to Malaysia, and I absolutely enjoyed it. I thank you, the other organizers, and your entire team of student volunteers for the warm hospitality. Hope to be part of such engaging conferences in the future. Prasenjit Sen, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India It was a pleasure to visit Kuala Lumpur to attend the ACCMS-9 conference. It was a very good experience to come across talks in different arenas of computational chemistry. Please say my thanx to entire organising committee especially student volunteers to make it so easy and comfortable for us to enjoy the harmonious environment at the conference and, organizing beautiful trips to KL city. A very heartfelt thanks to you for organizing ACCMS-9 and giving me an opportunity to present my work.. Abhishek Kumar Gupta, IIT Madras, India Thank you so much for the great hospitality you have provided us at KL. I had great time there to be acquainted with many people from all over Asia, and other part of the world. Fumio Hirata, Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute, Japan The conference was well organized, nice venue, excellent technical session and really I enjoyed lots during the visit. My huge thanks to all the local organizing committee members!!!!!! Ranjit Thapa, SRM University, India. I wish to join everybody and thank you for your efforts for putting up this nice events. From many details we can see you must have put in a lot of efforts in coordinating and managing. Cherri Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Thank you very much for contribution and hospitality you and your team! It was a great time in KL! Rodion Belosludov, Tohoku University, Japan Words are not enough to thanks all of you for your hospitality. Long Dang, Hanoi VNU- University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam Owing to great effort of you and your team, we enjoyed a very successful conference and pleasant time in KL!. Ying Chen, Tohoku University, Japan.I myself definitely have benefited a lot for attending the conferences especially in establishing research contacts with others and in particular Dr. Liew from DICC. Good job and well done, and thanks for everything. Yoon Tiem Leong, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. I want to add to all the congratulatory notes you have been receiving about the excellent conference you organized. Thank you for your warm hospitality and all your hard work. I and my PAGE 10

12 wife thoroughly enjoyed our first visit to your country. I learnt a lot and was happy to see many of my old friends and make new ones. Puru Jena, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA It is really an amazing experience to attend the ACCMS9 and visit Malaysia Ding Pan, HKUST, Hong Kong Thank you for your nice arrangement of the conference. The TOMBO workshop and ACCMS9 were a great success, and wonderful experience for us. Looking forward to joining further events and all the best for Malaysian research. Maaouia Souissi, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan It was great meeting at ACCMS-9. I wanted to thank you for all of the work, time, and effort you put into this meeting. I particularly, learnt a lot and I was happy to visit a new place and make a new friend. Hope to be part of such engaging conferences in the future. Niveen Assaf, Murdoch University, Australia I also would like to thank you for organizing this interesting conference. As everybody told, I also enjoyed the lectures very much. This was the first time that I visited Malaysia. I found that Malaysians are friendly people. Off course, I enjoyed the foods very much. I hope I can visit Malaysia again in near future. Mohammad Khazaei, RIKEN, Japan Thank you very much for organizing a fantastic conference. I absolutely had a great time in Kuala Lumpur and enjoyed attending various presentations. Manjanath Aaditya, Tohoku University, Japan FUTURE ACCMS MEETINGS The coming ACCMS meeting will be the 12 th General Meeting of Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science - Virtual Organization (ACCMS-VO12), which will be held in December 17-19, 2017 at the Sakura Hall, Katahira campus, Tohoku University, Japan. This will be the last Off Meeting of the Virtual Organization. In September 2018, the ACCMS theme meeting will be held in Vietnam the title Multiscale Modelling of Materials for Sustainable Development ". The organizer will be Prof. Nguyen Dinh Duc of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Vietnam) The next main conference series of ACCMS will be held in Hong Kong in year This will be the 10 th Anniversary Meeting of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science PAGE 11

13 (ACCMS-10). The conference organizer of ACCMs-10 will be Assoc. Prof. Chi-Kit Andy Siu, the City University of Hong Kong. Further information can be found from the link below: Finally, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the University of Malaya, our Patron, the Vice-Chancellor, National and International Advisory committees. Special thanks to Prof. Kawazoe for his support in all aspects related the ACCMS-9 meeting. We thank all local organizing committee and helpers, plenary and invited speakers, all the participants and sponsors for the support to great success of this event. Thank you very much and looking forward to meeting you again in the future ACCMS meeting. Prof. Yoshiyuki Kawazoe Founder, Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science Prof. Rauzah Hashim Co-Chairperson ACCMS-9 Assoc. Prof. Khain-Hooi Chew Co-Chairperson ACCMS-9 PAGE 12