Submissions of original work on topics including, but not limited to the following list, are solicited:

• Electronic structure, X-ray absorption
• Mechanical properties including vibrational, elastic and piezoelectric properties
• Thermal properties including thermoelectric behaviors
• Optical properties
• Electrical transport phenomena
• Defect states
• Structural studies including phase transitions
• Spin dependent properties
• Carbon related semiconductors (clusters, nanotubes, graphene)
• Low-dimensional semiconductor structures
• Novel materials, structures and devices
• State of the art computation of material properties under high pressure
• New experimental and computational techniques