LJC-TYC Summer School 2026

Date: 28th September to 2nd October 2026, 9:30-5pm every day
Location: Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre

Soirée: Tuesday 29th September 2026, 5:30-8:30pm
Location: Cambridge, Downing College, Howard Building

The Lennard-Jones Centre is organising a "summer school light" on atomistic simulation, principally aimed at PhD students who started between October 2025 and October 2026, inclusive. Each day will take a different topic, with introductory lectures by a mix of faculty and young researchers from the LJC (Cambridge) and the Thomas Young Centre (London), and hands-on tutorials in the afternoon. Titles in the timetable below will be filled in as lecturers provide them. 

On Tuesday evening, a Soirée will be held in the Howard Building at Downing College, comprising of a CASTEP lecture given by Prof. Angel Rubio, with drinks and nibbles afterwards, to which the whole community is invited. 

The summer school is "light" because participants organise their own accommodation (hopefully most of you already have Cambridge or London accommodation already), and all you need to participate in the tutorials is a laptop. Lunches will be provided every day (in the foyer of the Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre), but not dinners (except the nibbles at the Soirée on Tuesday). 

The cost is £150 for 5-day participation. Students coming from outside Cambridge (e.g. TYC students coming from London, or students from participating Max Planck research groups) can either pay the same and attend all week, or pay a reduced £75 fee for any 2 days (including the Soiree). Billing is via interdepartmental or inter-institutional invoice so please when you register also check with your supervisor. 

Please complete this short form to register for attendance https://forms.gle/1vqDDA4M6bcdLCWb8 Registration closes on 14th September. 

If you have any questions, please contact LJC-Admin@ch.cam.ac.uk 

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