Conference: The Path of Quantum Chemistry into the 21st Century

Symposium Celebrating Prof. Roland Lindh's 65th Birthday

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The last century concluded with quantum chemistry reaching a mature state that enabled the routine study of molecules and their properties on purely theoretical grounds. At the time, one could have assumed that the field would continuously evolve into a mature final state. Then, the first 20 years of the new century brought ground-breaking new developments whose value was first underestimated, but was then demonstrated to be enormous (examples are machine learning, tensor network states, quantum computing). This conference will look at these latest developments and how they can be woven with traditional approaches into the emerging new form of theoretical chemistry in the 21st century.

The conference poster can be downloaded Downloadhere (PDF, 1.5 MB).

Invited Speakers

Giampaolo Barone, Università degli Studi di Palermo
Stefano Battaglia, University of Zurich
Malgorzata Biczysko, Shanghai University
Sonia Coriani, DTU Copenhagen
Pavlo Dral, Xiamen University
Nicolas Ferré, Aix-Marseille University
Laura Gagliardi, University of Chicago
Leticia González, University of Vienna
Jun-ya Hasegawa, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
Kjell Jorner, ETH Zurich
Adam Kirrander, University of Oxford
Stefan Knecht, Algorithmiq, Helsinki
Teodoro Laino, IBM Rüschlikon
Xiaosong Li, University of Washington, Seattle
Giovanni Li Manni, MPI for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
Ya-Jun Liu, Beijing Normal University
Spiridoula Matsika, Temple University, Philadelphia
Isabelle Navizet, Gustave Eiffel University, Marne-la-Vallée
Massimo Olivucci, Bowling Green State University and Università degli Studi di Siena
Jeppe Olsen, Aarhus University
Henrik Ottosson, Uppsala University
Thomas Bondo Pedersen, University of Oslo
Cristina Puzzarini, Università di Bologna
Julia Rice, IBM San Jose
Daniel Roca-Sanjuán, Universitat de València
Ron Shepard, Argonne National Laboratory
Dage Sundholm, University of Helsinki
Luca De Vico, University of Siena
Hans-Joachim Werner, University of Stuttgart

Time and Place

The symposium will take place from January 16 - 18, 2024.

All talks will be given in lecture hall J 7, HCI building, Hönggerberg campus. The map below shows this campus, with the HCI building marked in red. The lecture hall J 7 is in the north-eastern part of the building (in the map below, this is the part right below the label "Joseph-von-Deschwanden-Platz").

Directions on how to reach the campus Hönggerberg can be found here. We have also collected more detailed travel information Downloadhere (PDF, 779 KB).

HCI

Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5 / 10
8093 Zürich

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Overview map with highlighted building HCI

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Program

Accommodation

Accomodation must be organized and paid by the participants. Please find below a list of hotels in the city centre with good reviews:

Registration

Registration is handled via the following external page: external pagePQCC Registration

Note that you will first need to create an account on this page. With this account, you can then register for the conference and/or submit your poster abstract. If you would like to present a poster, you can submit your abstract while registering for the conference, or you can first register and login again at a later time to provide the poster abstract.

The price for participants and accompanying persons is CHF 125 without conference dinner, and CHF 190 with conference dinner.

Deadline for registration and poster abstract submission is December 10, 2023, 11:00 a.m. UTC.

Sponsor

Poster Prizes

Poster prizes were awared for the following posters:

Razan Daoud, Università degli Studi di Siena , Assessing Coulomb Interactions in Molecular Aggregates: Example Applications of Frenkel’s Model , Poster 5
Meghna Manae, ETH Zurich , Using Instanton Theory to Study Quantum Effects in Photosensitization , Poster 18
Dominik Sidler, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science , Ab Initio Description of Polaritonic Chemistry: Cavity Induced Polarization Effects and the Role of Fluctuations , Poster 26