Subject: icqc 97 announcement

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:27:20 -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:      [email-masked]

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:      [email-masked]

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:      [email-masked]

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:      [email-masked]

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:      [email-masked] 

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:      [email-masked]
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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.

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 
[[email-masked]]. 
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