Dear Colleagues:

We would like to invite you to submit a contribution to a minisymposium that we are organizing on Emerging Methods for Large-Scale Quantum-Mechanical Materials Calculations at the 12th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, to be held July 22-25, 2013 in Raleigh, NC. This minisymposium aims to bring together leading researchers in this emerging area to discuss and exchange ideas on new methods developments for density-functional calculations, mathematical analysis, and applications of ab initio methods in electronic-structure calculations.

Information on the minisymposium is available at: http://12.usnccm.org/MS8_1. The deadline for abstract submission is March 15, 2013: please see http://12.usnccm.org/abstract-submission.

We look forward to your participation in the mini-symposium.

Best wishes,

N. Sukumar (University of California, Davis)

John Pask (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Phanish Suryanarayana (Georgia Institute of Technology)