Program of the VB workshop

<<< VB workshop main page

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Location
8:30-9:00	Opening
09:00-11:00	VB lecture I - Philippe C. HIBERTY Qualitative Valence Bond theory VB lecture II - Philippe C. HIBERTY Overview of ab initio Valence Bond methods	VB lecture V - David L. COOPER Spin-Coupled VB and CASVB methods and their applications VB lecture VI - Sason S. SHAIK Valence Bond diagrams for chemical reactivity - part 1	Extension lecture I - Markus REIHER Modern Multi-Determinantal Total-State Wave Functions and their Relation to One-Electron Pictures like Valence Bond Theory Extension lecture II - Jean-Paul MALRIEU VB reading of CASSCF and post CASSCF wave functions. The work of dynamical correlation	Extension lecture IV - Clark LANDIS VB reading from Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) analysis Short talks	Short talks
11:00-11:30	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
11:30-12:30	VB lecture III - Wei WU Post-VBSCF methods including dynamical correlation	VB lecture VII - Sason S. SHAIK Valence Bond diagrams for chemical reactivity - part 2	Short talks	Short talks	Short talk
12:30-14:30	Welcome buffet lunch	Organized lunch	Free lunch	Free lunch	12:30-14:00 Free lunch
14:30-15:30	VB lecture IV - Peifeng SU Practical guide for VB calculations	VB lecture VIII - Yirong MO Block-localized wavefunction (BLW) method and its applications	Extension lecture III - F. Matthias BICKELHAUPT MO Theory: Ally or Competitor of VB Theory?	Free time	14:00-17:00 VB tutorial
15:30-18:30	Free discussions and VB tutorial	Free discussions and VB tutorial	Free discussions and VB tutorial	Free time	17:00 - Closing
19:30	Restaurant suggestions	Restaurant suggestions	Restaurant suggestions	Workshop banquet

Content of the lectures

Short talks

Tutorial information

Basic literature on VB theory

---

<<< VB workshop main page