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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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Supported by:
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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