CTTC 2016: objectives

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Introduction

Nowadays conferences become more and more specialized and thus more difficult to follow by non-specialists. The first objective of the conference is to provide a frame that will raise the interest of young people for modern, state of the art, developments of theoretical and computational chemistry. Of course, a second objective is to present talks presenting various aspects of the field in order to stimulate interdisciplinary exchanges.

Indeed, theoretical chemistry, in spite of its relatively low financial investment requirement, becomes more and more important having numerous applications in research and industry to model complex systems ranging from materials to biological systems of pharmacological interest. This is in part due to the amazing development of computers in the last decades, that continue to develop towards powerful peta- and exascale architectures but also to important ideas grounded on new physics and mathematics that emerged in the field, and make possible to obtain predictive theoretical results with accuracy that compete with experimental measurements.

Moreover, computational chemistry, being less money demanding, can play a major role in the development of research. But in order to do so, local students need to be exposed to all topics and state of the art research.