icqc

morokuma@euch4e.chem.emory.edu
Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:38:10 -0500 (EST)

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF QUANTUM CHEMISTRY

Organized under the auspices of
the Internaltional Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences

EMORY CONFERENCE CENTER HOTEL
EMORY UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA

JUNE 9-14, 1997
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ernest R. Davidson
Kieji Morokuma (Chair)
Henry F. Schaefer, III

LOCATION AND DATES

Emory Conference Center Hotel, Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia USA

>From Monday, June 9, 1997 (Gathering) to
Saturday, June 14 (Closing Session, Banquet)

CORRESPONDENCE

Keiji Morokuma
9th ICQC '97
Department of Chemistry
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
Tele: (404) 727-2180
Fax: (404) 727-6586
Email: morokuma@emory.edu

PROGRAM

The program will include plenary and invited lectures and posters.
The conference will be in English.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Reinhart Ahlrichs, Institut fŸr Physikalische Chemie und
Elektrochemie, Karlsruhe, Germany

Michele Parrinello, Max-Planck-Institut fŸr Festkšrperforschung,
Stuttgart, Germany

Martin Quack, Laboratorium fŸr Physikalische Chemie, ETH , ZŸrich,
Switzerland

PARTIAL LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS

Almlšf Clementi Heller Mayer
Apeloig Cremer Hirao Musaev
Armentrout Dixon Houk Nascimento
Baerends Dunning Iwata Robb
Bauschlicher Dykstra Jemmis Scuseria
Becke Eisenstein Koch Shaik
Bondybey Frenking Koga Stanton
Bowers Fu Kozlowski Taylor
Carsky Galabov Lischka Urban
Cederbaum Gauss Light Yang
Ceyer Hall Lorquet Zerner
Cioslowski Head-Gordon Makri

SESSION TOPICS

Methods
- Parallel Computation - quantum chemistry code implementation
- DFT
- Perturbation, Coupled Cluster, etc. (all non-variational methods)
- Multi-reference Approaches
- Basis Sets and Corrections for Inadequacy
- Hybrid Methods (QM/MM, etc.)

Applications
- Photochemistry
- Non-adiabatic Effects
- Electronic Structure in Condensed Media
- Intermolecular Interactions
- Spectroscopy
- Chemical Reactivity
- Organic Reactions
- Homogeneous Catalysts
- Solid Surface, Heterogeneous Catalysis
- Materials, Solid States
- Biological Applications
- Dynamics of Nuclear Motion
- Statistical Applications
- Industrial Applications

SATELLITE MEETINGS

1. Density-Functional Theory and Computation
Dates: June 3-7, 1997
Location: Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Contact: Weitao Yang
Dept. of Chemistry
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0346
Organizers: Mel Levy and Weitao Yang
Email: yang@chem.duke.edu

2. Theoretical Chemistry in Biology: From Molecular Structure
to Functional Mechanisms
Dates: June 3-7, 1997
Location: Savannah, GA or Charleston, SC
Contact: Michael Zerner
Quantum Theory Project
Univ. of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
Organizers: Peter Kollman, Harel Weinstein,
and Michael Zerner
Email: zerner@qtp.ufl.edu

3. Structural and Mechanistic Organic Chemistry: A Tribute to
Professor Norman L. Allinger
Dates: June 5-7, 1997
Location: Athens, Georgia
Contact: H.F. Schaefer, III
Ctr. for Comp. Quan. Chem.
Univ. of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602-2556
Organizers: H.F. Schaefer and P. Schleyer
Email: hfsiii@uga.cc.uga.edu

4. Coupled Cluster Theory and Electron Correlation Workshop
Dates: June 15-19, 1997
Location: Cedar Key, Florida
Contact: Rodney Bartlett
Quantum Theory Project
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
Email: bartlett@qtp.ufl.edu

5. Interplay between Theory and Experiment in Molecular
Spectroscopy and Dynamics
Dates: June 15-18, 1997
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Contact: Peter Pulay
Dept. of Chem. & Biochem.
Univ. of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AK 72701
Organizers: Daniel Chapman, Tom Cundari, David Dixon,
B. Andes Hess, Bruce Hudson, Henry Kurtz and Peter Pulay
Email: pulay@comp.uark.edu
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Updated information concerning the congress can also be obtained
on the internet at http://www.chem.emory.edu/icqc/icqc.html.
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The second circular containing registration and accommodation
information will be mailed in the fall of 1996 to those who
return the following response form via fax, mail or email
[icqc@euch4g.chem.emory.edu].

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