For the second year in a row, we are organising a summerschool with the master materiomics program, oriented at students in their second or third bachelor chemistry or physics. Within this summerschool the students are introduced into the various topics which play an important role in materials research. Today, as part of the quantum pillar, I had the pleasure to introduce the students into the world of computational research, with a focus on the application for quantum mechanical modelling. We learned for example, that it is practically impossible to store the wavefunction of a simple small molecule like benzene, it would require more great deal more than a mole of galaxies in mass to store it. With Density Functional Theory on the other hand, you can easily investigate it on a modern day laptop, as you only need the electron density.
Materiomics summerschool of 2025.
