Recent Advances in Modeling Rare Events (RARE): Methods and Applications

RARE meetings are a series of International symposiums organized to discuss recent advances in the field of rare event sampling of molecular systems. RARE2025 is the fourth in the series, with very successful symposiums organized in 2014 (RARE2014), 2017 (RARE2017), and 2021(online) (RARE2021). For the upcoming RARE2025 symposium, we are inviting researchers working on the rare event sampling problem in different domains of science and engineering. The meeting will bring together participants to discuss established and novel methods as well as underlying theoretical principles in detail, and to form collaborations to develop new techniques. The meeting will take place in largely informal settings with relaxed schedules and post-dinner brainstorming/discussion sessions.  

Some of the broad topics covered in RARE2025 are:

• New methods for free energy calculations

• New methods for enhanced sampling

• Collective variables

• Transition path sampling and reaction kinetics

• Machine learning tools for rare event sampling

• Advanced applications of rare event sampling techniques 

(To facilitate the speakers to present their unpublished work, abstract books or proceedings will not be printed.)

Conveners, RARE 2025

Nisanth N. Nair (IIT Kanpur)

Jagannath Mondal (TIFR Hyderabad)

Andrew Ferguson (UChicago)

Suman Chakrabarty (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)

Tarak Karmakar (IIT Delhi)