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Dear colleagues: The abstract submission deadline of this workshop has been extended to 30 April 2016. Apologies for cross-posting; please forward to potentially interested coworkers: It is a pleasure to welcome you to the workshop Thermoelectrics riding the waves: A voyage from fundamentals to applications, taking place on board the Hurtigruten cruise ship on 12 - 16 September 2016. The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 30 April 2016. Registration and abstract submission can be performed at the website: http://thelma-workshop.com/ This international workshop aims to identify the most promising routes towards cost-efficient thermoelectricity for waste heat recovery without the use of scarce or toxic materials. The scope covers novel materials (oxides, half Heuslers, others); modules and systems (metallization issues, system performance, applications), and theory (predictions from first principles, scattering phenomena, multiple scales). The participants are encouraged to ask critical questions to the field, both in their presentations and the subsequent discussions. The hope is to identify the most promising paths towards successful implementation of thermoelectrics and to abandon dead ends. The number of participants will be limited to a maximum of 100, and much time will be devoted to questions and discussions. All sessions will be plenary. We hope that this will be an intensive and fruitful workshop, given the compact and scenic venue. Accommodation will be in single or double cabins on board the Finnmarken Hurtigruten cruise ship. We will travel along large parts of the spectacular Norwegian coast line and make stops at several unique arctic towns of Norway. The workshop is sponsored by the Research Council of Norway, which allows very reasonable pricing of the conference, including all meals and accommodation on board. The following invited speakers have been confirmed: Bo Brummerstedt Iversen, Aarhus university, Denmark Jesús Carrete Montaña, CEA Grenoble, France Kunihito Koumoto, Nagoya University, Japan Mark S. Lundstrom, Purdue University, USA Jochen Mannhart, Max Planck Institute of Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany Nini Pryds, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark Ivana Savic, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland Jeff Snyder, Northwestern University, USA Karina Tarantik, Fraunhofer IPM, Freiburg, Germany Wenjie Xie, University of Stuttgart, Germany For more information and submission of abstracts, go to http://thelma-workshop.com/ . Best regards, Ole Martin Løvvik -- Prof. Ole Martin Løvvik Chairman of the workshop SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Oslo, Norway Dept. of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway To join or leave the molecular-dynamics-news email list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/molecular-dynamics-news.html