Organizers: Roberto Car, Pablo Debenedetti, and Frank Stillinger

Despite the importance and ubiquity of the phenomenon, the precise microscopic mechanism of ice nucleation is not well understood, neither do we possess quantitative, predictive knowledge of homogeneous or heterogeneous ice nucleation rates. Because of the central role of ice formation in atmospheric processes, food preservation, and setting a key boundary for the possibility of life under extreme conditions, there exists a large community of experimental and computational scientists working on the problem of understanding, measuring and computing the mechanisms and rates of ice formation under a very broad range of conditions. A two-day workshop that brings together leading theoretical, computational and experimental scientists from among the unusually broad community of researchers interested in ice nucleation has the potential for shaping the research agenda for the next decade in this important area.