Each year at the end of the summer (typically mid-October), we organize a one-week summer school at the ICP at Stuttgart University, Germany. The schools are typically free of charge, and in some cases we may even be able to support people from abroad.
The schools are sponsored by CECAM and the SimTech Cluster of Excellence at Stuttgart University.

ESPResSo summer school 2015 at the ICP
Past Summer Schools
Our cecam school Particle-based Simulations for Hard and Soft Matter will take place on October 8-12, 2018 at the Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart.
The school focuses on the introduction of particle based coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics simulation techniques for Hard and Soft Matter systems with the freely available software packages ESPResSo and IMD. It is intended to introduce the participants into specific methods like Lattice-Boltzmann, Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics, advanced electrostatic algorithms, force field development, finding optimal transition states, and coarse-grained model building, as well as visualization methods with the program MegaMol. This visualization middleware focuses on GPU-accelerated visualization of particle-based data with the scope of interactive exploratory analysis of molecular dynamics simulations.
- October 8-12, 2018, SimTech-SFB716-CECAM-summer school “Particle-based Simulations for Hard and Soft Matter” took place at the Institute for Computational Physics (ICP) in Stuttgart, Germany
- October 9-13, 2017, “Simulating Soft Matter with ESPResSo, ESPResSo++ and VOTCA” took place at the Institute for Computational Physics (ICP) in Stuttgart, Germany
- October 10-14, 2016, SimTech-SFB716-CECAM-summer school “Particle-based Simulations for Hard and Soft Matter” took place at the Institute for Computational Physics (ICP) in Stuttgart, Germany
- October 5 and 9, 2015, SimTech-SFB716-CECAM-summer school “Simulating Soft and Active Matter with ESPResSo, ESPResSo++ and VOTCA” took place at the Institute for Computational Physics (ICP) in Stuttgart, Germany
- October 6-10, 2014, SimTech-SFB716-CECAM-summer school “Particle-based Simulations for Hard and Soft Matter” took place at the Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- October 7 to October 11, 2013, SimTech-SFB716-CECAM-summer school “Simulating Soft Matter with ESPResSo, ESPResSo++ and VOTCA”
- October 8 to October 12, 2012, SimTech-SFB716-CECAM-summer school “Simulating Soft Matter with ESPResSo, ESPResSo++ and VOTCA”
- October 10, 2011 to October 14, 2011, SimTech-SFB716-CECAM-tutorial workshop “Coarse-grained Simulation of Biological Soft Matter Systems using ESPResSo”
- October 11, 2010 to October 15, 2010, SimTech-SFB716-CECAM-tutorial workshop “Simulating Soft Matter with ESPResSo“