| Dear colleagues, To honor Per-Olof Löwdin, Uppsala University invites every other year prominent scientists to present their research and stimulate interest in quantum chemistry. This year, it is our pleasure to invite Prof Sharon Hammes-Schiffer and Prof Markus Reiher as the 2017 and 2018 Löwdin lecturers, respectively. We take this opportunity to organise a (free of charge) symposium on November, 16 2018 around the theme of quantum chemistry and machine learning. More information can be found here: https://www.kemi.uu.se/research/theoretical-chemistry/the-lowdin-lectures/ or below. You are more than welcome to come and attend! Best wishes, Morgane Vacher and Roland Lindh —————————— The Löwdin Lectures 2018, with Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer and Prof. Markus Reiher The Committee for Quantum Chemical Löwdin Lectures was established in 1982 to administrate a fund generated by international contributions to honor Per-Olof Löwdin (1916-2000) in association with his retirement at Uppsala University in 1981. The fund was transferred to Uppsala University at the 4th International Quantum Chemistry Congress, Uppsala, 1982. The purpose of the Löwdin lectures is to stimulate the interest in quantum chemistry by inviting prominent scientists to Uppsala to present their research and to give a general lecture on chemistry. Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer Sharon Hammes-Schiffer received her B.A. in Chemistry from Princeton University in 1988 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University in 1993, followed by two years at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She was the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame from 1995-2000 and then became the Eberly Professor of Biotechnology at The Pennsylvania State University until 2012, when she became the Swanlund Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Since 2018, she has been the John Gamble Kirkwood Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Biophysical Society. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, and the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee. She was the Deputy Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry B and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Reviews. She is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science and has served as Chair of the Physical Division and the Theoretical Subdivision of the American Chemical Society. She has over 235 publications, is co-author of a textbook entitled Physical Chemistry for the Biological Sciences, and has given more than 360 invited lectures. Prof. Markus Reiher Markus Reiher was born in Paderborn (Westphalia) in 1971. He received his diploma in chemistry from the University of Bielefeld in 1995 and a PhD in theoretical chemistry from the same University with Professor Juergen Hinze in 1998. After habilitation in theoretical chemistry at the University of Erlangen with Professor Bernd Artur Hess in 2002 ('venia legendi' in summer 2003) he worked as a Privatdozent, first in Erlangen and then at the University of Bonn. During this time he served as the representative of the vacant chairs of theoretical chemistry in Erlangen (2003/2004) and then in Bonn (2004/2005).From April 2005 to January 2006 he was Professor for Physical Chemistry at the University of Jena and since February 2006 he has been professor for theoretical chemistry at ETH Zurich. His work is documented in more than 300 publications, among which he published a monograph on relativistic quantum chemistry. He was invited to deliver more than 200 lectures. In recognition of his efforts in research and teaching he received the Emmy Noether Habilitation Prize 2003, the ADUC award 2004, the Dozentenstipendium of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie 2005, the OYGA award 2010 of the Lise-Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Chemistry in Jerusalem, and the Golden Owl best teaching award of the chemistry students of ETH Zurich in 2010. His research covers all fields of theoretical chemistry from its fundamental basis to challenging electronic structure and vibrational dynamics problems to advanced kinetic modeling and the study of chemical function encoded in complex networks and catalysis. —————————— Schedule for The Löwdin Lectures 2018 Friday, November 16th, in room 4101 at the Ångström Laboratory. 09:00 - Opening & Introduction Roland Lindh and Morgane Vacher Department of Chemistry-Ångström, Uppsala University, Sweden 09:15 - Exhaustive Exploration of Complex Reaction Networks Markus Reiher Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland 10:00 - Break 10:30 - Accelerating inorganic discovery with machine learning Heather Kulik Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 11:00 - Quantum machine learning Anatole von Lilienfeld Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 11:30 - Integrating first principles modeling and experimental characterization via machine learning Maria K. Y. Chan Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States 12:00 - Lunch break 13:30 - Neural networks learning quantum chemistry Olexandr Isayev University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States 14:00 - Machine learning with deep feature graphs leads to interpretable models that predict reaction performance Lucy Colwell Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 14:30 - Machine learning algorithms for designing metamaterials Koji Tsuda Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan 15:00 - Break 15:30 - Machine learning for quantum chemistry Matthias Rupp Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany 16:00 - Multicomponent quantum chemistry: Integrating electronic and nuclear quantum effects Sharon Hammes-Schiffer Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States 16:45 - Summary & Closing remarks Roland Lindh and Morgane Vacher |