CTTC 2016: objectives
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Introduction: Social involvement is not exclusive of Humanities
Scientific education and communication is vital for research and innovation, which at their turn are crucial in the development of a country.
However, most conferences take place at places where this development has already taken place. The reason is obvious: there are researchers in these countries who have the money, the scientific need and the will to organize them.
And this becomes a difficult to break circle.
CTTC conferences are intended to bring theoretical chemistry to countries who actually need this punch.
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.
But this is not all...
Nowadays conferences become more and more specialized and thus more difficult to follow by non-specialists. Another main objective of the CTTCs series is to provide a frame that will raise the interest of young (and not so young) people for modern, state of the art, developments of theoretical and computational chemistry outside of their domain of expertise. The interaction between various aspects of the field will thus stimulate interdisciplinary exchanges and promote collaborations between different theoretical chemistry branches.
The following editions have taken place:
Kathmandu (Nepal) in 2012, Nha Trang (Vietnam) in 2014. We are now working on 2016 edition at Trujillo (Peru).