Conference: Molecules in Extreme Environments - Midterm Meeting

- (15 Jan)
- (16 Jan)
- (17 Jan)
All speakers are given 1 hour and 30 minutes, leaving ample time for discussions.
Monday January 15
08:30 - Registration
08:50 - TRYGVE HELGAKER: Opening words from the director of Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences
Session 1 — chair TOOMAS TAMM
09:00 - KAI NORDLUND: Development of interatomic potentials for matter and antimatter: 20 years of collaboration with Dage
09:30 - PER ÅKE MALMQVIST: The lowest potential functions for the lowest S=n/2 (n=1,3,...,11) states of the dichromium cation
10:00 - PEKKA PYYKKÖ: Determination of nuclear quadrupole moments
10:30 - COFFEE BREAK
Session 2 — chair STEFANO CORNI
11:00 - CHRISTIAN OCHSENFELD: Linear- and sublinear-scaling quantum-chemistry methods
11:30 - JEPPE OLSEN: A revisit to perturbation expansions of the two-state problem
12:00 - POUL JØRGENSEN: Cluster perturbation theory for energies and molecular properties including excitation energies
12:30 - LUNCH BREAK
Session 3 — chair ELKE PAHL
14:00 - CHAO-PING HSU: Electronic coupling and rates for singlet fission
14:30 - LETICIA GONZÁLEZ: Methods for exciting transition metal complexes
15:00 - CHRISTOF HÄTTIG: The ultrafast excited-state dynamics of the aromatic triazene berinil
15:30 - VILLE KAILA: Proton-coupled electron transfer reactions in biology
16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
Session 4 — chair JONAS JUSELIUS
16:30 - ULF RYDE: Estimating ligand-binding affinities with QM methods
17:00 - TOMASZ WESOLOWSKI: Recent developments in frozen-density embedding theory and its applications in multi-scale modelling
17:30 - RAUL MERA: Chemisty from the south of the world
19:00 - POSTER SESSION
Tuesday January 16
Session 5 — chair TRYGVE HELGAKER
09:00 - WIM KLOPPER: GW methods and Bethe-Salpeter equation
09:30 - HEIKE FLIEGL: Linking magnetically induced current densities to optical properties
10:00 - LAURI HALONEN: Simple chemical processes on water, ice and quartz surfeces
10:30 - COFFEE BREAK
Session 6 — chair RICCARDO ZANASI
11:00 - PAOLO LAZZERETTI: Current density tensors
11:30 - SOFIE VAN DAMME: Interoperation of the behavior of the NICSzz by resolving in orbitals, sign and positions
12:00 - ANDY TEALE: The role of MAGIC in current-density-functional theory
12:30 - LUNCH BREAK
Session 7 — chair GUGLIELMO MONACO
14:00 - SONIA CORIANI: Developing theoretical beamlines for modern experiments
14:30 - ANTONIO RIZZO: Electronic nonlinear spectroscopies: theory and experiment working together
15:00 - TROND SAUE: Beyond the electric dipole approximation in relativistic simulations of x-ray absorption spectroscopy
15:30 - KENNETH RUUD: Ultralong and anomalous phosphorescence of relevance to organic light-emitting diodes
16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
Session 8 — chair MICHAL STRAKA
16:30 - MARTIN KAUPP: Computation of magnetic resonance parameters: dia- and paramagnetic systems from molecules to solids
17:00 - JUHA VAARA: Chemical shift extremum of 129Xe(aq) reveals details of hydrophobic solvation
17:30 - OLGA MALKIN: A mystery of a through-space indirect spin-spin coupling between two hydrogen atoms
19:00 - BANQUET
Wednesday January 17
Session 9 — chair RAPHAEL BERGER
09:00 - JÜRGEN GAUSS: Towards large-scale full configuration-interaction
09:30 - PETER SCHWERDTFEGER: From graphene to fullerenes, gaudienes and golden hollow cages
10:00 - MIKAEL JOHANSSON: Spin densities, spheres and hydrogen bonding -- a most enjoyable brew
10:30 - COFFEE BREAK
Session 10 — chair LUCA FREDIANI
11:00 - STELLA STOPKOWICZ: Accurate treatment of ground and excited states in strong magnetic fields
11:30 - PAULI PARKKINEN: Numerical quantum chemistry with cube and bubbles
12:00 - MICHAEL PATZSCHKE: Analysis of the covalent bond character of tetravalent actinides complexes with N- and O-donor ligands
12:30 - HEIKE FLIEGL: Closing
12:30 - LUNCH AND FAREWELL
For invited guests only.