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The United Kingdom Car-Parrinello Consortium (UKCP) is a group of researchers across the UK who develop `first principles' quantum mechanical techniques for studying atomistic systems and apply them to a very wide variety of systems.
UKCP is currently funded as a High-End Consortium by the Engineering and Physics Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Consortium News
- 2025 CASTEP User Training Workshop in Oxford, UK
UKCP are co-sponsoring the 2025 CASTEP User Training Workshop, from 8th-12th December at the University of Oxford. This workshop will cover the fundamentals required to use CASTEP for high-quality research simulations of a wide range of properties, from band-structures to NMR, EELS to phonons. - Summer Internship Opportunities
We have several funded research software internship opportunities within the Consortium. The internships are for undergraduate students or recent graduates, and will last 8 weeks. For details of projects and locations, please contact Phil Hasnip (phil.hasnip at york.ac.uk). - UKCP Science Meeting 2025
The 2025 UKCP Science Meeting was held from 15th-16th Sept in Keele University. We had a fantastic couple of days sharing the many developments and advanced simulations across the consortium. - MMM Hub Annual Conference 2025
UKCP is sponsoring the annual scientific conference for the Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub (16th-18th Sept). - CASTEP 25.12 Released
The CASTEP developers are pleased to announce the release of version 25.12. This release also has a GPU version, as well as significant improvements to the speed and parallel scaling, especially for large calculations, and several bug-fixes and improvements. CASTEP is dual-licensed, with a free worldwide academic source code licence, administered by STFC and available at the online STFC store. - PhD Opportunity
There is a funded PhD position in a UKCP-related area with Dr Joe Prentice, University of Manchester. See here for more details, and note the closing date for applications is 28th February 2025. - UKCP-LJC-CP2K Machine Learned Interatomic Potential Workshop in Cambridge, UK
We are pleased to announce a UKCP ML theme workshop, which is co-organised with the UK CP2K developers and the Lennard-Jones Centre in Cambridge. The meeting will be held from the 20th-21st January 2025 in the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge. - 2024 CASTEP User Training Workshop in Oxford, UK
UKCP are co-sponsoring the 2024 CASTEP User Training Workshop, from 16th-20th September at the University of Oxford. This workshop will cover the fundamentals required to use CASTEP for high-quality research simulations of a wide range of properties, from band-structures to NMR, EELS to phonons. - European School on Magnetism (ESM) 2024
UKCP are co-sponsoring the magnetic materials modelling section of the European School on Magnetism 2024, to be held at the University of York (with an online option) from 27th August to the 6th September. This will cover the fundamentals of magnetic materials physics, as well as how to use first-principles modelling to simulate magnetic properties and phenomena. See here for full details. - CONQUEST 1.2 Released
The CONQUEST team are pleased to announce the release of v1.2, which includes a number of new features, along with bug fixes and code polishing, and updates to the manual. CONQUEST is distributed under an MIT licence, and is available freely on Github, with the manual available at readthedocs. Follow this link for more details of this new release. - CASTEP Community Conference 13-14th July 2023
This year sees the return of the CASTEP Community Conference, this time at the University of Warwick, UK. There will be a lively informal atmosphere with invited and contributed talks, a poster session and plenty of opportunities for discussion. See here for details and registration.