Program of the VB workshop

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	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8:30	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	Chairman : Stéphane HUMBEL Extension lectures : Clark LANDIS : VB reading from Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) analysis F. Matthias BICKELHAUPT : MO Theory: Ally or Competitor of VB Theory?	09:00-10:45 • Chairman : David L. COOPER Extension lectures : Gustavo SCUSERIA : Projected HF and beyond : Is there a VB connection? Katharina BOGUSLAWSKI	9:00-10:30 • Chairman : Andrei TCHOUGREEFF Participants talks : Jules T. MUYA Christine LEPETIT Josep M. OLIVA
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	Chairwoman : Avital SHURKI Participants talks : Mario PIRIS Tom ZIEGLER	11:15-12:45 • Chairman : Andreas SAVIN Extension lecture : Jean-Paul MALRIEU : VB reading of (post)CASSCF wave functions. The work of dynamical correlation Participant talk : Celestino ANGELI	11:00-13:00 • Chairman : Etienne DERAT Participants talks : Avital SHURKI Samuel DE VISSER Lynn KAMERLIN Jiali GAO
12:30-14:30	Welcome buffet lunch	12:30-14:00 Organized lunch	Lunch	Lunch	13:00-15:00 Lunch
14:30-15:30	VB lecture IV - Peifeng SU Practical guide for VB calculations Introduction to the VB tutorials	Chairman : David DANOVICH Participants talks : Padeleimon KARAFILOGLOU Romain RAMOZZI Carol PARISH	VB lecture VIII - Yirong MO Block-localized wavefunction (BLW) method and its applications Yannick CARISSAN : Presentation of the HuLiS program	Free time	15:00 - Free discussions and VB tutorial
15:30-18:30	Free discussions and VB tutorial	Free discussions and VB tutorial	Free discussions and VB tutorial	Free time	Free discussions and VB tutorial
	Restaurant suggestions	Restaurant suggestions	Restaurant suggestions	Workshop banquet

• Location : The talks will take place in the Esclangon building of the campus, in room "Amphi Durand". The tutorials will take place in the ATRIUM building, rooms 117 and 119. Rooms 121 and 123 will also at the disposal of participants for free discussions.

Content of the lectures

Participants talks - abstract page

Tutorial information

Basic literature on VB theory

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