XXXII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics

Damien Foster 1 , Nikolaos G. Fytas 1 , Charo del Genio 1 , Ran Holtzman 1 , Abhishek Kumar 1 , Susanne Horn 1 , Alban Potherat 1 , Martin Weigel 2 , and Taras Yavors’kii 1 1 Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, United Kingdom 2 Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany E-mail: martin.weigel@physik.tu-chemnitz.de The 32nd IUPAP Conference in Computational Physics was held online August 2-5, 2021 with organizational support from Coventry University. The Conference in Computational Physics series of meetings is held annually under the auspices of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) at international locations alternating typically between Europe, the Americas, and the Asian and Pacific regions. It covers all areas of the computational sciences with a relation to physical applications, making it the largest and leading recurrent international meeting in computational physics. Typical topics covered include statistical mechanics and complex systems, soft matter and biophysics, materials and nano-science, fluid dynamics, quantum manv-body physics, quantum computing, lattice field theory, astrophysics, gravitation and cosmology, novel hardware and software, computational physics education, machine learning and algorithms as well as geophysics and porous media. The format combines plenary overview lectures with a broad range of topical parallel sessions featuring invited impact talks as well as oral contributions and poster sessions, complemented by discussion sessions. The organisation of the 2020 meeting was given to the present group of organisers for a meeting to be held in physical presence in Coventry. It was planned for August 2020, but with the advent of the Coronavius pandemic it was decided in April 2020 to postpone the meeting to 2021 with the hope of holding it on site. We were quite confident back then that the meeting could be held face-to-face in 2021, but the virus proved to be more persistent than we had envisaged, such that CCP2021 was held entirely online. While this disappointed some, it also offered a number of opportunities to explore new forms of scientific and social interaction. We used a virtual conference centre constructed in Gather Town that included spaces for poster sessions and exhibition space for sponsors as well as many opportunities for formal and informal discussions among participants. All oral presentations were delivered on Zo