The 5th Workshop on Evolutionary Crystal Structure Prediction using the USPEX Code will take place on August 3-8, 2013 in Guilin, China. The workshop will include lectures from leaders of this field, including the developers of the USPEX code and its expert users, and extensive hands-on practical training sessions. There will be an opportunity for the participants of the workshop to start their own research projects using USPEX with the help of the code developers.

Registration is open until 15 June 2013, for details see http://uspex.stonybrook.edu/uspexworkshops.html .

Thanks to generous funding, registration fee is only $306 and includes accommodation, all meals, and scenic excursion.

Guilin is famous as the site of the most beautiful landscapes of China, and the place of exciting and rich cultural diversity.

USPEX workshops have a rich and successful tradition, with many attendees quickly becoming expert users and authors of high-impact papers. We look forward to meeting you in Guilin,

The organizers:

Chaohao Hu (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China),
Artem R. Oganov (SUNY Stony Brook, USA),
Qingfeng Zeng (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China),
Tian Cui (Jilin University, China)