The Complex Systems and Advanced Materials international school started on 30 June at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics at JINR. The event brought together about 50 students, postgraduates, and young researcher from various scientific centres and universities in Russia, Belarus, and Slovakia.

Co-Leader of the “Complex systems and advanced materials” topic Alexander Povolotsky gave an opening speech, discussing the JINR and BLTP history and the main directions of research. In addition, he read the greetings of the laboratory’s leadership. The scientific programme of the first day of the school started with presentations by Pavel Sorokin (MISIS National University of Science and Technology) entitled “Atomic scale modelling: a bridge between theory and experiment” and Zaur Alisultanov (Abrikosov Centre for Theoretical Physics) “Symmetric analysis of the observation and stability of Dirac and Weyl phases in crystals”.

During the week, lectures for the participants will be given by representatives of BLTP at JINR, the Abrikosov Centre for Theoretical Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vereshchagin Institute for High Pressure Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and MISIS University.

In addition to lectures, the programme includes mandatory presentations by the school participants – graduate students and young scientists – according to the field they study or work in.

The school’s topics include the following scientific areas:

• current issues of magnetism;
• Dirac and Weyl phases in crystals;
• quantum transport in two-dimensional systems;
• machine learning methods in condensed matter physics;
• atomic scale modelling;
• renormalisation group in condensed matter physics;
• superconducting spintronics;
• modern issues of statistical physics;
• exciton physics.