From owner-chemistry-!at!-ccl.net Sat Apr 14 22:39:00 2018 From: "Steven Kirk stevenrkirk_._gmail.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Conference: Quantum International Frontiers October 17-21,2018 Changsha, China Message-Id: <-53235-180414223727-29628-+Jz+BZrWVeGatbrXdvS2mQ**server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Steven Kirk Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 10:37:17 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: Steven Kirk [stevenrkirk^^gmail.com] ######## Quantum International Frontiers 2018 ######## ######## October 17-21,2018 ######## ######## Changsha, Hunan Province, P.R. China ######## WEBSITE: https://www.quantum-int.org/2018/ Quantum International Frontiers 2018 will include sessions on: * Quantum Modelling for Energy Conversion and Storage * Relativistic Effects for Quantum Chemistry * Spectroscopy, Molecular Structure and Dynamics * Plasmas and Particles in Chemistry and Physics * Catalysis, Reactive Collisions and Chemical Reactions * Surfaces and Interfaces of Complexes and Clusters * Molecular and Nano-materials for Electronics * Quantum Effects and Applications * Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields * Developments in Theoretical Concepts in Quantum Chemistry Traditional and non-traditional lecture formats will be implemented in this conference (details below). Current list of lecturers and lecture titles (check the website frequently for updates!) -------------------------------------------- * Standard lecture: 30 minutes (25 minutes talk, 5 minutes for questions) # Lucas Visscher: Implementation and Applications of Relativistic Coupled Cluster Theory. * Pedagogical lecture: 45 minutes: The lecture material (PPTs, PDF) must be at a level suitable for final year undergraduate students and the audience may interrupt the speakers. There should be no jargon or unexplained acronyms. Limited numbers of slots available. # Martin Quack: Fundamental Symmetries and their Violations in Molecular Quantum Physics. # Debashis Mukherjee: to be decided. # Marco Nascimento: The Consequences of Neglecting Permutation Symmetry in the Description of Many-Electron Systems. # Erkki Brandas: Complex Scaling Method - Interpretations, Theory and Results. * Frontier lecture: 60 minutes: 30 minutes invited talk immediately followed by 30 minutes of audience discussion. The lecture material should be of a pedagogic level and submitted by August 1st 2018 for distribution to the Q.I. Frontiers audience. Limited numbers of slots available. # Paul Ayers: New Flexible Wavefunction Forms for Quantum Chemistry and Physics. # Akitomo Tachibana: Quantum Mechanics: 100 Years of Mystery Solved! # Piotr Piecuch: New Paradigm in Quantum Chemistry: Accurate Electronic Energies by a Combination of Stochastic Wave Function Sampling and Deterministic Coupled-Cluster Computations. # Xiong-Jun Liu: Dynamical Classification of Topological Quantum Phases. Important Deadlines Deadline 1: 2018/04/30 Early bird registration - see website. Deadline 2: 2018/08/01 Late registration - see website. WEBSITE: https://www.quantum-int.org/2018/