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September 2024: 22nd USPEX workshop announced, and will be held online on 26-27 November 2024, please register at: https://events.skoltech.ru/uspex2024.
June 2024: Artem Oganov has been elected a Distinguished Professor of Skoltech.
October 2023: New release of USPEX code (v. 2023.0.3).
June 2023: New release of USPEX code (v. 2023.0.2) with small bug fixes of previous release. An official collaboration between Skoltech and Phenikaa university (Vietnam) with active participation of Materials Discovery Laboratory is established.
May 2023: New release of USPEX code (v. 2023.0.1). Registration for China-Russia International Symposium on Crystallography of Materials 2023 is open. The symposium will take place in Urumqi (China) on 14-17 August 2023, please register at: crcm2023.casconf.cn.
November 2022: New release of USPEX code (v. 2022.1.0). 21st USPEX workshop successfully held in Isfahan, Iran. Artem R. Oganov included in the list of Highly Cited Researchers (Web of Science).
September 2022: T. Fan and D. Semenok have defended their PhD theses. Registration for the online course "Materials design and thermoelectric materials" has been opened.
August 2022: 21st USPEX workshop announced to take place in Isfahan (Iran) on 17-21 November 2022, please register at: https://qsm.iut.ac.ir/workshop-iut-uspex.
2020-2022: Many major papers (please consult "Publications" page) and other advances.
December 2020: A. Kvashnin became a winner of 24th Academia Europaea Award Competition.
September 2020: Artem R. Oganov elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.
April 2020: Artem R. Oganov elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).
December 2019: Artem R. Oganov receives a grant from Huawei to design new materials.
November 2019: Artem R. Oganov receives a grant for leading scientific schools from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
September 2019: Artem R. Oganov receives Friendship Award of Chinese government.
September 2019: Inaugural symposium of Skoltech’s program of Excellence in Computational Materials Science, and USPEX workshop in Moscow (Russia).
June 2019: USPEX workshop in Rennes (France).
May 2019: review “Structure Prediction Drives Materials Discovery” (Nature Reviews Materials) by Oganov, Pickard, Zhu, Needs.
April 2019: Artem R. Oganov receives grant of Russian Science Foundation for world-class laboratories.
31 January 2019: A.Kvashnin won a grant with the project "Study of superconductivity with electron-phonon coupling mechanism in hydrides, borides and carbides of transition metals stabilized by pressure".
03 November 2018: New TV-documentary about Artem R. Oganov documentary film.
17 September 2018: 17-19 September 2018 - Artem R. Oganov and V.S. Baturin conduct 15th USPEX workshop in Moscow.
16 September 2018: Documentary TV-film about Artem R. Oganov documentary film.
31 August 2018: Artem R. Oganov wins RFBR grant to develop thermobarrier coating materials.
07 April 2018: A.Kvashnin won in the 2017 RSF competition with project titled: "Computational design of new materials with optimal hardness and crack resistance properties".
22 March 2018: Ivan Kruglov won a RFBR grant with project titled: "Development of machine learning interatomic potentials"
12 February 2018: A. Kvashnin and D.Semenok won a grant in UMNIK programe with project titled: "Light Elements: superconducting ternary systems with light atoms"
11 September 2017: Artem R. Oganov is elected member of Academia Europaea
08 September 2017: Alexander G. Kvashnin gives an invited lecture at EHPRG conference
01 September 2017: President Putin visits workshop for children led by Artem R. Oganov
19 August 2017: Artem R. Oganov gives invited lectures at AIRAPT and IUCr congresses, and an IUCr popular science talk about NaCl to a distinguished audience
27 June 2017: Artem R. Oganov co-leads two panels at World Economic Forum (Dalian, China)
02 June 2017: Artem R. Oganov gives a Distinguished Lecture at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
06 February 2017: Publication of the discovery of new stable helium compounds (Nature Chemistry, 2017)
20 January 2017: 12th USPEX workshop (12th Lyakhov school on Computational Materials Science) has been succesfully held in Poitiers, France. We welcome you to take part in the upcoming 13th USPEX workshop. For workshop program, practical details and registration, see workshop website.
01 January 2017: Maribel Nunez-Valdez became Professor in GFZ Potsdam (Germany)
14 November 2016: We welcome you to take part in the upcoming 12th USPEX workshop (12th Lyakhov school on Computational Materials Science). For workshop program, practical details and registration, see workshop website
20 July 2016: PCCP journal placed our research on the cover
02 December 2015: Artem Oganov is elected Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences
03 November 2015: Artem Oganov gives a lecture in Armenia and meets Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and President of Armentian Academy of Sciences R. Martirosyan
01 October 2015: New release of USPEX code (v. 9.4.4)
01 August 2015: New release of USPEX code (v. 9.4.3) and 10th USPEX workshop in China.
01 May 2015: Shengnan Wang publishes an important paper in Nature Communications, about novel Ca carbides.
01 March 2015: New release of USPEX code (v. 9.4.2).
01 January 2015: 8th USPEX workshop in India.
03 December 2014: New release of USPEX code (v. 9.4.1).
02 December 2014: Qinggao Wang publishes an important paper in Phys. Rev. Lett. on surface reconstructions of TiO2.
01 December 2014: International conference "New Approaches in Materials Design"is organized in Moscow, Russia.
01 August 2014: IUCr-2014 congress in Montreal; ARO was a member of the Program Committee.
01 March 2014: Our lab is visited by Prof. Michele Parrinello.
05 February 2014: Qiang Zhu is promoted to Research Assistant Professor. Congratulations!.
04 February 2014: Web-release of USPEX-related programs and utilities and USPEX Manual.
03 February 2014: Our lab is visited by Prof. Anatoly B. Belonoshko and Dr. Dima Bolmatov, who give talks.
02 February 2014: Major paper on 2D-structures of boron is published in Physical Review Letters.
01 February 2014: Special Issue "Computational Materials Discovery" of Acta Crystallographica C is published, edited by Artem R. Oganov.
03 January 2014: New grant on designing novel carbon nanostructures is awarded.
02 January 2014: Brilliant MSc defenses of Yue Liu and Guangrui Qian.
01 January 2014: Hands-on-only USPEX mini-workshop is very successfully held in Xi'an, China.
02 December 2013: Major discovery of new unexpected sodium chlorides is published in Science and receives huge resonance.
01 December 2013: Artem R. Oganov organizes a 1-day conference "New approaches in computational materials discovery" in Moscow, Russia. Among speakers - M. Parrinello, V. Anisimov, V. Blatov, X.Q. Chen.
01 November 2013: Artem R. Oganov is elected Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America.
01 August 2013: Very successful USPEX workshop in Guilin (China), with record high attendance.
02 May 2013: Important paper, on the methodology for prediction of surface chemistry and structures, is published (pdf-file).
01 May 2013: Paper on high-pressure chemistry and physics of boranes is published in Physical Review Letters.
03 April 2013: Registration for USPEX workshop is open.
02 April 2013: Online publications of two major papers: (1) Prediction of counterintuitive stable compounds MgO2 and Mg3O2, (2) Development of a powerful method for predicting phase transition pathways - Variable-Cell Nudged Elastic Band, improving upon previous techniq.
01 April 2013: New grant on discovery of novel magnetic materials.
02 March 2013: Release of the USPEX code version 9.3.4 is now available. All previous versions are obsolete.
02 March 2013: Qiang Zhu defends PhD thesis.
01 January 2013: Paper on high-pressure chemistry of xenon oxides is published in Nature Chemistry.
02 December 2012: Paper on the structure of magnesium borohydride is published in Physical Review Letters.
01 December 2012: USPEX workshop in Stony Brook, USA.
01 October 2012: USPEX workshop in Lausanne, Switzerland.
22 May 2012: Premiere of a documentary film "Color of the crystal". Earlier, a TV-film "Once, with Artem Oganov" was released.