Winter school “Modeling of Functional Materials” in the framework of DFG-FOR 1509 “Ferroic functional materials”

In the framework of Research Unit FOR 1509 “Ferroic Functional Materials – Multiscale Modeling and Experimental Characterization” funded by the German Science Foundation, the winter school Modeling of Functional Materials was held successfully at Chalet Giersch of TU Darmstadt from February 19 to 25, 2017. The main purpose of this winter school was to familiarize the PhD and master students, postdocs, and other members of the FOR 1509 with up-to-date advanced modeling approaches, numerical methods, and experiment-related theories in the field of ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, and multiferroic materials. In total there were 26 participants, and 14 double-hour lectures were given by 8 lecturers from different research areas (mechanics, materials science and physics).