Modelling, theory and the use of sophisticated computational tools have the potential to represent a substantial cost and time saving for R&D. The development of high speed computer architectures is finally allowing the ordinary use of accurate methods for calculating the structural, thermodynamic, vibrational and electronic properties of semiconductors and their heterostructures.

This IOP sponsored workshop, a follow up from the event in Manchester in 2008, will run for three days, with the objective of bringing together UK and international leading experts in the field of theory of group IV, III-V and II-VI semiconductors together with postdocs and students in their early stages who will benefit from an introduction to a very vast field at this influential point in their careers.