July 14, 2026 For the first time, UW-Madison hosts the Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods Written By: Jason Daley Departments: Electrical & Computer Engineering | Materials Science & Engineering | Mechanical Engineering Categories: Event The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted the Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods June 22-25, 2026. The workshop, held at various locations each year since 1989, brings together active participants in electronic structure theory development from universities, colleges, institutes and laboratories from around the world. This year’s event was held at UW-Madison for the first time, with Yuan Ping, an associate professor in materials science and engineering at UW-Madison, serving as the local chair of the workshop, which was also supervised by an international steering committee. Through invited presentations and a poster session, researchers described new methods for predicting previously inaccessible properties, breakthroughs in computational efficiency and accuracy, and novel applications of these approaches to the study of molecules, liquids, and solids. Participants in the 2026 Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, held at UW-Madison June 22-25 at Memorial Union. In total, 119 researchers made the trip to the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus for the workshop and another 108 participated virtually. Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Development and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Laura Albert gave the workshop’s opening remarks. Other highlights included a special topics symposium on “Predictive Theory for Non-Equilibrium Quantum Many-Body Systems” supported by DOE/Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Computational and Theoretical Chemistry; hands on tutorials on “Constrained Nuclear–Electronic Orbital framework and practice”and “First-principles open quantum dynamics for coupled spin, electrons, and phonons in solids”; and an opportunity to meet NSF MRSEC Program Manager Dr. Serder Ogut and editors from APS/Physical Review Letters and AIP/Journal of Chemical Physics in person. The workshop was sponsored by the Department of Energy, Basic Energy Science, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; National Science Foundation, Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT); CECAM Central-node; American Physics Society/Physical Review Letters (poster awards); Microsoft Quantum; as well as UW-Madison sponsors including the Grainger Institute for Engineering; Theoretical Chemistry Institute; Wisconsin MRSEC; and the Department of Physics.