The school will be organized in Kyiv on the basis of the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (BITP) under the umbrella of COST Action CA21101 / CONFINED MOLECULAR SYSTEMS: FROM A NEW GENERATION OF MATERIALS TO THE STARS (COSY).

The school aims to introduce students and early-career scientists to computational research in confined systems, bridging the disciplines of life and material sciences. With its focus on cutting-edge topics, the school intends to inspire young researchers to explore this interdisciplinary field through lectures, hands-on tutorials, and skill-building sessions in scientific communication. The scope of the school will cover the structure of biomolecules (nucleic acids and proteins), the physical properties of novel materials (graphene and Dirac materials, atomic clusters), and methods to model their physical properties at different levels of organization. The tutorials will demonstrate the students how to use in practice advanced computational methods. The participants from Kyiv are expected to be present in person. The participants from other cities in Ukraine and from Europe will join the event online via Zoom.

The COST Action COSY aims to provide a computationally and experimentally sound foundation for the fundamental understanding and control of confined molecular systems. The resulting outcome will be translated into useful knowledge forming the basis for applications. These range from creating a new generation of materials including biomaterials, with immediate transfer to industry, to disclosing the chemistry occurring in space. To this end, COSY will combine new cutting-edge experimental techniques for the synthesis of novel nanomaterials and high-resolution characterization thereof, with state-of-the-art first principles modelling. The most advanced methods for molecular motion as well as modern artificial intelligence, machine learning technologies, and big data science will be applied.

COSY COST Action coordinators: María Pilar de Lara-Castells (Chair), Cristina Puzzarini (Vice Chair)