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First African Workshop on Computational Condensed Matter Physics

Algiers, Algeria
3-5 November, 2001

Postponed to the 1st-3rd June 2002

Web Site:http://www-cmsl.univ-sba.dz/workshop.htm


 
 

   Topics
          Proceedings
          Participation/Registration
          International Scientific Committee
          Location
 
 
 

The Africa Physics Fourum  in conjunction with Psi-k network ,the Computational Materials Science Laboratory of Sidi-Bel-Abbès University and Tlemcen University  will organise the first African Workshop on Computational Condensed Matter Physics. This workshop aims to enhance the communication between African scientists in materials research computational work and also to strengthen the African network. This workshop will be devoted to recent advances in computational condensed matter physics, based on realistic calculations of the electronic structure of polyatomic systems.

Topics

The list of topics to be treated will include:

Transitions states and rates, chemical reactions, non-equilibrium and non-adiabatic processes, electron dynamics, new materials, catalysis, surface and other low-dimensional systems, phase transitions; polarisation.

The official language of the Workshop is English

Proceeding

Contributions selected by the international Scientific committee will appear in a special issue of Algerian Journal of Advanced Materials.

Participation/Registration

The workshop will consist of invited talks with ample space devoted to discussion. In addition, there will be one (or more poster session (s)

Participation is open to all scientists from all African Countries. Registration is 4000 DA or 500FF. Please note, that there are no participation grants available for this workshop. Anyone wishing to participate must return the Registration .

As activity will be conducted in English, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of that language.All those interested in attending should complete and return the registration form, which may be found at the back of the Workshop announcement, by 15 June 2000 .

This announcement is also obtainable via e-mail :

haourag@mail.univ-sba.dz

International Scientific Committee

H. Aourag (Algeria)
P. Blaha (Austria)*
G. Frudakis (Greece)*
A. Gross (Germany)*
D. Joubert (South Africa)*
A. Kebede (USA)
B.Khelifa (France)
T. Lowther (South Africa)*
N. Mousseau (Canada)*
C. Pisani (Italy)*
C. Seth (Zambia)*
K. Takahashi (Japan)*
W.Temmerman (UK)*
D. Theodorou (Greece)*
E. Tosatti (Italy)*
S. Toxvaerd (Denmark*
 
 
 
Location
The conference will take place at 

  The Central Library, Tlemcen
  University of Tlemcen
  13000, Tlemcen
  Algeria
Adjacent to the Lecture Theatres there is a large Expo Foyer providing plenty of room for poster presentations. Luncheons will be served in the Zianides restaurant and tea and coffee in the Foyer.

Tlemcen. Highlight of the dull West

Tlemcen stands out as a seldom well- conducted example on mixture between Islamic and French architecture. In Tlemcen you'll find the most outstanding mosques of Algeria, and the French part of the city reigns among the nicest in the whole of North Africa. And the altitude of Tlemcen makes the place a nice hideout during the hottest summer months.
When in Tlemcen, you can visit the mosque and tomb built around Sidi Bou Mediene. This is one of the nicest tombs in Maghreb.

Located 70 miles from Oran, Tlemcen is one of Algeria's great Islamic cities which flowered as an Arab sultanate from 1282 until 1553 when it became part of the Ottoman Empire. The city is still set amidst olive groves and vineyards in one of Algeria's most beautiful regions and is redolent of its traditional heritage, marked by vestiges of Islamic architecture and the memories of the many great Algerian scholars and saints who lived and died there.

There is evidence of prehistoric habitation by cave dwellers in the area of Tlemcen. There are also remains of a Roman military encampment. The first Arab-Islamic settlement on the site was established in the 8th century by Idris I and named Agadir, which meant fortress.

The great Almoravid commander Youssef bin Tashfin made the town his capital in the 11th century and renamed it Tlemcen, building the city's Grand Mosque. Tlemcen flourished as the capital of central Magreb under the rule of the Zianid dynasty which dominated trans-Saharan trade.

Toward the end of the 13th century the Merinids of Fez waged war against the Zianids for domination of the Magreb and laid siege to Tlemcen in 1299, actually constructing the city of Mansourah outside the walls of the city. The siege lasted until 1307 when the Merinid commander was assassinated and the Merinids withdrew from Mansourah.

The struggle between the Zianids and Merinids continued for decades and Tlemcen was besieged again in 1337 and 1359 until finally Tlemcen fell and the Merinids returned to rule from Mansourah. The Zianid dynasty steadily declined during the 15th century, falling under Spanish influence and finally succumbing to Ottoman rule. Throughout this period Tlemcen was alternately dominated by the Merinids of Fez and Hafsids of Tunis.

In 1555 Tlemcen was taken over by the Ottomans and suffered a period of neglect. The French invasion of Tlemcen in 1830 divided the city into two camps, the pro-French Kouloughlis, the mixed-race descendants of Turkish-Arab intermarriages; and the Berber and Arab partisans of Emir Abdel Kadir.

The Tlemcenis managed to fend off French occupation for over a decade until the city fell in 1842, but by then Tlemcen had been infused with the spirit of Algerian nationalism.

One of the city's sons, Ahmad Messali Hadj founded Algeria's first independence movement in 1924, becoming the leader of the MTLD (Mouvement pour le'Triomphe des Libertés Démocratiques) which produced many Algerian revolutionary leaders.