ICAMS PhD candidate Yanyan Liang won the best poster award at the Mainz Materials Simulation Days 2019 (Jne 5-7 2019), jointly organized by the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Topic of the meeting was "Exploring Complex Free Energy Landscapes: Structure/Function Formation, Multiscales, and Long-timescales", with focus on the development and applications of free energy methods and enhanced sampling methods.

The title of the awarded poster was Finding the reaction coordinates for crystal nucleation in Ni₃Al from transition path sampling simulations.