Program of the Kathmandu 2012 Workshop

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Bodhnath Stupa

Schedule

Talks are scheduled in slots of 30 minutes (including discussions). However, as the program is very tight, the organizers recommend that the talks should be kept shorter. If this is achieved, there will be more time for discussions during the breaks.

Monday April 30 Tuesday May 1 Wednesday 2 May Thursday 3 May Friday 4 May
9:00 - 9:30 Pal Gross Broer Minot
9:30 - 10:00 Witek Calaminici Daul Markovits
10:00 - 10:30 Cioslowski Fuentealba Helgaker Chen
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break Break Break
11:00 - 11:30 Okopinska Yang Borgis Hiberty
11:30 - 12:00 Causa Görling Dobson Braida
12:00 - 12:30 Wesolowski Chermette Frauenheim Derat
12:30 - 13:00 Chan Grabowski Kronik Salahub
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
15:00 - 15:30 Ernzerhof Excursion to Patan Delgado Barrio Excursion to Bodhnath
15:30 - 16:00 Scuseria Carniato
16:00 - 16:30 Welcome van Aggelen Martin Pendas
16:30 - 17:0 Piris Cardenas
17:00 - 17:30 Opening Break Break
17:30 - 18:00 Malrieu Ayers Graovac
18:00 - 18:30 Harris Russo Schwerdtfeger
18:30 - 19:00 Mukherjee Bultinck Liu
19:00 - 19:30 Schwarz Baer Discussions / Posters
20:00 - 20:30
20:30 - Conference dinner

Speakers and titles of the talks

  1. Helen van Aggelen: Variational optimization of second order density matrices for chemistry
  2. Paul Ayers: What Should One Do When Electronic Structure Methods Aren’t Good Enough? Machine-Learning Methods for Molecular Properties
  3. Roi Baer: Dogmatic and Pragmatic Spirits in Density Functional Theory
  4. Daniel Borgis: Classical Density Functional Theory and its Application to Chemistry
  5. Benoit Braida: Recent trends in ab initio Valence Bond methods
  6. Ria Broer: First principles Studies of Magnetic Interactions in Molecules and Solids
  7. Patrick Bultinck: Chemical verification of new quantum chemical methods
  8. Patrizia Calaminici: Finite Systems Properties from Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics
  9. Carlos Cardenas: Navigating the Hard-Soft Acids-Bases Principle
  10. Stephane Carniato: How RIXS and theory can be combined to measure the electronegativity
  11. Mauro Causa: Locality and non-locality. It is possible to cut a system governed by quantum mechanics
  12. Garnet Chan: Quantum embedding theories
  13. Guanhua Chen: Penetrating a potential barrier one hundred percent
  14. Henry Chermette: The Gradient-Regulated Connection of Generalized Gradient Exchange Functionals: interest and limitations
  15. Jerzy Cioslowski: All you always wanted to know about many-electron harmonium atoms
  16. Claude Daul: Prediction of single-molecular magnets with open d- or f-shells by theoretical calculations
  17. Gerardo Delgado Barrio: Theoretical studies of Helium clusters doped with diatomic molecules
  18. Etienne Derat: Models for complex bioinorganic systems: a tool for future design?
  19. John Dobson: Dispersion Forces
  20. Matthias Ernzerhof: Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics and density functional theory
  21. Thomas Frauenheim: DFTB - Recent methodological extensions, applications and challenges
  22. Patricio Fuentealba: The richness of the dynamics of clusters and molecules
  23. Andreas Gorling: The adiabatic-connection dissipation-fluctuation theorem as route to a new generation of density-functional methods: perspectives and challenges
  24. Irek Grabowski: Impact of the correlation effects on the KS DFT potentials, energies and densities
  25. Ante Graovac: On topology versus geometry in molecules
  26. Frank Harris: Fully Correlated Wavefunctions for Small Atoms
  27. Hardy Gross: Exact factorisation of the electron-nuclear wave function: A fresh look on potential energy surfaces and the semi-classical treatment of nuclei
  28. Trygve Helgaker: The universal density functional in external magnetic field
  29. Philippe Hiberty: Valence Bond Theory and Reactivity: Correlation Between the Diradical Character of 1,3-Dipoles and their Reactivity Toward Ethylene and Acetylene
  30. Leeor Kronik: Understanding photoelectron spectroscopy from first principles - progress and challenges
  31. Wenjian Liu: Relativistic correlation
  32. Jean-Paul Malrieu: Scale changes and reduction of the degrees of freedom in wave-function calculations
  33. Alexis Markovits: The Active Role of the Surface in Heterogeneous Catalysis
  34. Ángel Martín Pendás: Fluctuation of electron populations and chemical bonding
  35. Christian Minot: Reducibility of metal oxides
  36. Debashis Mukherjee: Reflections on interplay of dynamical and static correlations : paradigms and approaches
  37. Anna Okopinska: Entanglement in natural and artificial atoms and molecules
  38. Sourav Pal: Coupled cluster theory: stationary or non-stationary?
  39. Mario Piris: Can NOFT bridge the gap between DFT and WFT?
  40. Nino Russo: How to choose the exchange-correlation potential for different systems or processes: menu à la carte ou menu du jour ?
  41. Dennis Salahub: Electron transfer and other reactions in proteins – towards an understanding of the effects of quantum decoherence
  42. W.H.E. Schwarz: Descriptive and Explanative Concepts of Theory for Chemistry
  43. Peter Schwerdtfeger: Beyond the Periodic Table – Going for the Superheavy Elements
  44. Gustavo Scuseria: Symmetry breaking & restoration
  45. Tomasz Wesolowski: Joining seamlessly microscopic and macroscopic levels of description of matter: challenges and perspectives for modelling methods based on Frozen-Density Embedding Theory
  46. Henryk Witek: Exact solution of Schrodinger equation for helium: how far are we?
  47. Weitao Yang: Fukui functions: Analytic evaluation and new exact conditions from the flat plans.

Posters

  1. Nasarul Islam: ?
  2. Deba B. Khadka: Optical model calculation of the total Penning ionization cross sections of Ne(3P1) by O2
  3. Claire C. Ralph: Time Evolution of Matrix Product States and its Application to NMR

Abstracts

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