Invited Speakers: Ganapathy Baskaran (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India) TBA Clemens Bechinger (University of Konstanz, Germany) Friction of Brownian Particles in Nonequilibrium Baths Marco Bernasconi (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy) Simulations of phase change alloys for embedded electronic memories Roberto Car (Princeton University, USA) TBA Michele Fabrizio (SISSA, Italy) Local Kekulé distortions can stabilise topological insulating phases in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene Riccardo Ferrando (University of Genoa, Italy)           Growth of metallic nanoparticles -- An atomistic view Giulia Galli (University of Chicago, USA) Electronic structure and coherent states of spin defects in solids Oded Hod (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Layered Ferroelectricity: from Geometric Measures to First-Principles Calculations Alessandro Laio (SISSA, Italy)               Identifying informative distance measures in high-dimensional feature spaces Peter Littlewood (University of Chicago, USA) Effects of elastic coupling at structural phase transitions Nicola Manini (University of Milan, Italy)         Phonon Dissipation in sliding friction Francesco Mauri (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy ) TBA Ernst Meyer (University of Basel, Switzerland) Force experiments on 2d-materials Giampaolo Mistura (University of Padua, Italy)           Passive and active control of drop motion on slippery lubricated surfaces Michele Parrinello (IIT, Italy) The surface physics of catalysis Daniele Passerone (EMPA, Switzerland) Atomistic modelling in the experimentalists lair: highlights from a theoretician paradise Bo Persson (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)      Multiscale contact mechanics theory with application to adhesion Luciano Pietronero (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy) Economic Fitness: Concepts, Methods and Applications Gianni Profeta (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Silicon surfaces, Erio, are we still there? Elisa Riedo (New York University, USA) Elasticity and Dissipation in 2D Alessandro Siria (CNRS ENS, France)          Experimental investigation of quantum liquid-solid friction Michael Urbakh (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Structural lubricity in layered material interfaces Xiaoqun Wang (Zhejiang University, China) A density-matrix renormalization group algorithm for non-hermitian physics