Yokohama, Japan – June 1, 2025 – Professor Dr. Sukit Limpijumnong, President of NSTDA, Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation (MHESI), was honored to deliver the opening keynote at the 11th General Conference of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (ACCMS-11), held from 31 May to 3 June 2025, in Yokohama, Japan.
The ACCMS-11 conference was co-organized by the ACCMS Global Centre, Yokohama National University, and Tohoku University. The conference featured distinguished experts, oral and poster presentations of cutting-edge research, covering a wide range of topics in computational materials science. These included novel computational methods, and their applications in diverse material systems such as energy materials, electronics materials, biomaterials, and structural materials, as well as the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data in materials research.
The conference attracted over 200 researchers from around the world. One of the highlights was a plenary lecture by Professor Steven G. Louie, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, titled "Novel States in 2D Materials and Moire Structures: Many-Electron Interactions and Topological Effects”
Renowned keynote speakers included:
Dr. Mohammad Khazaei, Assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Tehran, Iran. Talk Title: From MAX phases to MXenes: A First-Principles Exploration
Prof. Umesh Waghmare, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India, Talk Title: "Sensing Vibrations Using Quantum Geometry of Electrons"
Dr. Kwang-Ryeol Lee, Tenured fellow and Principal Research Scientist, Computational Science Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea, Talk Title: "Standardization of AI Ready Materials Research Data Schema and Vocabulary"
The Thai delegation comprised over 20 participants, including professors, researchers, and PhD students from research institutes and universities both in Thailand and abroad.
During the conference, Professor Dr. Sukit Limpijumnong, fostered international collaborations and discussed strategies to translate scientific research into practical applications that address real-world problems and contribute positively to both national and global economic development. Computational materials science plays a pivotal role in technological advancement, improving quality of life through cutting-edge scientific progress. He also promoted the use of the NSTDA Supercomputer Center (ThaiSC or LANTA), which provides high-performance computing resources to support large-scale computational research. This initiative attracted interest from both Thai and international researchers.
At the ACCMS-11 conference dinner, Professor Dr. Sukit Limpijumnong was announced as the the recipient of the prestigious ACCMS Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Professor Emeritus Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, founder and first president of ACCMS.
Professor Dr. Sukit has made significant contributions to ACCMS, maintaining a long-standing involvement in both main and satellite conference. Notably, he led the organization of ACCMS-7 in Thailand in July 2013 and oversaw the publication of the Special Issue: proceeding of The Seventh Conference of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (ACCMS-7) in 2014.
The ACCMS-11 is the flagship biennial event of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (ACCMS), an organization founded by leading computational materials scientists and theoretical chemists across Asia Its mission is to serve as a platform for presenting recent research, enhancing knowledge of computational tools, and fostering collaboration in the interdisciplinary field of computational materials science, which uses modeling and simulation to understand, design, and discover new materials.