The meeting was held from midday Monday April 19th to midday Thursday April 22nd. Unfortunately the period coincided with the volcanic eruption in Iceland which blocked the travel plans for many of the attendees, notably those from further away in Europe such as Turkey, Greece, Portugal, and Switzerland. Nonetheless the attendance was good (even if many attendees arrived later than initially planned), with modified travel plans including buses, boats, coaches, trains, etc. The programme consisted of a series of invited and proposed oral presentations, along with a poster session.

The applications talks included many on studies of graphene and graphene interfaces (gas absorption, redox chemistry on graphene surfaces, folding and defect formation), behaviour of silicon quantum dots and the effect of chemical functionalisation of their surface on their electronic behaviour, radiation damage and oxidation in carbon based materials, correct modelling of TiOx based materials and surfaces (notably for gas absorption). Two things were particularly noticeable - the diversity of problems being tackled, yet the similarity in approaches often used. This led to a great deal of dynamic and stimulating debate, often throughout the talks, leading to clear guidelines for best practise for simulation of different problem types. There were also clear suggestions from the applications modelling groups concerning areas of current difficulty where further methodological developments were necessary, notably for accurate modelling of exchange energy, a better description of Van der Waals forces (and extraction of any erroneous VdW correction terms in current functionals such as the local density approximation for exchange and correlation), and as always, increased code speed. Many different theoretical approaches were presented, primarily running AIMPRO but also alternative codes such as Quantum Expresso, making for very interesting benchmark and comparative studies.