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

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

SPECIAL SPONSORS

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OVERVIEW

The 9th Conference of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science

(ACCMS-9) was held from August 9-11 2017 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 16-18 June 2015. 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

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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

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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.

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PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT

In addition to the main conference of ACCMS-9, a full-day pre-

conference 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

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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.

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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

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“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

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“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

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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 12th 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 2019. This will be

the 10th Anniversary Meeting of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science

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(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:

http://accms.mobility.niche.tohoku.ac.jp/

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 Assoc. Prof. Khain-Hooi Chew

Co-Chairperson ACCMS-9 Co-Chairperson ACCMS-9