Program of the Kathmandu 2012 Workshop

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Bodhnath Stupa

Schedule

Monday April 30 Tuesday May 1 Wednesday 2 May Thursday 3 May Friday 4 May
8:30 - 9:00 Malrieu Schwarz Helgaker Ayers
9:00 - 9:30 Harris Bultinck Baer Cardenas
9:30 - 10:00 Causa Schwerdtfeger Borgis Markovits
10:00 - 10:30 Braida Mukherjee Piris Martin Pendas
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break Break Break
11:00 - 11:30 Chen Liu Grabowski Alikhani
11:30 - 12:00 Cioslowsky Scuseria van Aggelen Carniato
12:00 - 12:30 Okopinska Pal Wesolowski Yang
12:30 - 13:00 Ernzerhof Graovac Frauenheim Salahub
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
15:00 - 15:30 Excursion to Patan Kronik Excursion to Bodhnath Departure
15:30 - 16:00 Fuentealba
16:00 - 16:30 Hiberty
16:30 - 17:00 Daul
17:00 - 17:30 Welcome Break
17:30 - 18:00 Minot
18:30 - 18:30 Derat
18:30 - 19:00 Dobson
18:30 - 19:00 Broer
20:00 - Conference dinner

Speakers and titles of the talks

  • Helen van Aggelen: Variational optimization of second order density matrices for chemistry
  • Esmail Alikhani: TBA
  • Paul Ayers: What Should One Do When Electronic Structure Methods Aren’t Good Enough? Machine-Learning Methods for Molecular Properties
  • Roi Baer: Dogmatic and Pragmatic Spirits in Density Functional Theory
  • Daniel Borgis: Classical Density Functional Theory and its Application to Chemistry
  • Benoit Braida: Recent trends in ab initio Valence Bond methods
  • Ria Broer: First principles Studies of Magnetic Interactions in Molecules and Solids
  • Patrick Bultinck: Chemical verification of new quantum chemical methods
  • Carlos Cardenas: Navigating the Hard-Soft Acids-Bases Principle
  • Stephane Carniato: TBA
  • Mauro Causa: Locality and non-locality. It is possible to cut a system governed by quantum mechanics
  • Guanhua Chen: Penetrating a potential barrier one hundred percent
  • Jerzy Cioslowsky: All you always wanted to know about many-electron harmonium atoms
  • Claude Daul: Prediction of single-molecular magnets with open d- or f-shells by theoretical calculations
  • Etienne Derat: Models for complex bioinorganic systems: a tool for future design?
  • John Dobson: TBA (vdW)
  • Matthias Ernzerhof: Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics and density functional theory
  • Thomas Frauenheim: TBA
  • Patricio Fuentealba: The richness of the dynamics of clusters and molecules
  • Irek Grabowski: Impact of the correlation effects on the KS DFT potentials, energies and densities
  • Ante Graovac: On topology versus geometry in molecules
  • Frank Harris: Fully Correlated Wavefunctions for Small Atoms
  • Trygve Helgaker: The universal density functional in external magnetic field
  • Philippe Hiberty: Valence Bond Theory and Reactivity: Correlation Between the Diradical Character of 1,3-Dipoles and their Reactivity Toward Ethylene and Acetylene
  • Leeor Kronik: Understanding photoelectron spectroscopy from first principles - progress and challenges
  • Wenjian Liu: Relativistic correlation
  • Jean-Paul Malrieu: Scale changes and reduction of the degrees of freedom in wave-function calculations
  • Alexis Markovits: The Active Role of the Surface in Heterogeneous Catalysis
  • Ángel Martín Pendás: Fluctuation of electron populations and chemical bonding
  • Christian Minot: Reducibility of metal oxides
  • Debashis Mukherjee: Reflections on interplay of dynamical and static correlations : paradigms and approaches
  • Anna Okopinska: Entanglement in natural and artificial atoms and molecules
  • Sourav Pal: Coupled cluster theory: stationary or non-stationary?
  • Mario Piris: Can NOFT bridge the gap between DFT and WFT?
  • Dennis Salahub: Electron transfer and other reactions in proteins – towards an understanding of the effects of quantum decoherence
  • W.H.E. Schwarz:
                          Descriptive and Explanative Concepts of Theory for Chemistry /
                          Unusual Bonding by the 5f-6d-6p-7s Valence Shell of Actinoids
  • Peter Schwerdtfeger:
                          High Pressure Simulations – Squeezing the Hell out of Atoms / 
                          TOWARDS THE FIRST MEASUREMENT OF PARITY VIOLATION IN CHIRAL MOLECULES – NEW ATTEMPTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTIVE / 
                          Toward an Accurate Description of Rare Gas Phases / 
                          Beyond the Periodic Table – Going for the Superheavy Elements / 
                          The Pseudopotential Approximation / 
                          Bound state quantum electrodynamics for the valence shell in heavy many-electron atoms/
                          Beyond the Standard Model - the Variation of Fundamental Constants in Space-Time
  • Gustavo Scuseria: Symmetry breaking & restoration
  • Tomasz Wesolowski: Joining seamlessly microscopic and macroscopic levels of description of matter: challenges and perspectives for modelling methods based on Frozen-Density Embedding Theory
  • Weitao Yang: TBA

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Mt Everest, Lhotse and Cholatse seen from Renjo La