The Seminars of Advanced Studies of Molecular Design and Bioinformatics (SEADIM) are a continuation of
the Iberoamerican Schools of Computational Chemistry and Molecular Design (Havana, 1996, 1998). They
have been held by the Laboratory of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry (LQCT) in the University
of Havana, Cuba, with the attendance of young researchers from Iberoamerican countries.

Treating the interaction between light and matter is of fundamental importance to physics, chemistry
and biology with many applications to life and materials sciences, and environmental research. Only
in recent years theoretical tools have been developed that allow to gain insight into excited state
processes with experimental accuracy that allow to expand the field from small molecules to molecular
systems at the nanometer scale. The advances in accuracy and scale will be also discussed in the
2011’s conference. In addition, intensive courses preceding the seminars will update the
attendants about details of these advances.

Intensive courses of SEADIM 8 will take place from July 10 to 12 in Havana. Scientific sessions will
take place between July 13 and 15, 2011 at the Hotel "Occidental Allegro Varadero", in the Varadero
beach resort, and consist in invited plenary lectures and posters.



Confirmed Lecturers:

Mario Barbatti		Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung			barbatti at kofo.mpg.de			Germany
Vincenzo Barone		Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa		        vincenzo.barone at sns.it		Italia
Roberto C. Bochicchio	Universidad de Buenos Aires				rboc at df.uba.ar			Argentina
Silvia Braslavsky	Max-Planck-Institut fur Bioanorganische Chemie		braslavs at mpi-muelheim.mpg.de		Germany
Carlos Bunge		Instituto de Fisica, UNAM				bunge at fisica.unam.mx			Mexico
Sylvio Canuto		Universidade de Sao Paulo				canuto at if.usp.br			Brasil
Paolo Carloni		German Research School for Simulation Sciences		p.carloni at grs-sim.de			Germany
Philip G. Collins	University of California - Irvine			collinsp at uci.edu			USA
Gerardo Delgado-Barrio	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas		gerardo at imaff.cfmac.csic.es		España
Luis A. Echegoyen	University of Texas in El Paso				echegoyen at utep.edu			USA
Ernesto Estevez		Universidad de La Habana				estevez at imre.oc.uh.cu		Cuba
Marc Fontecave		College de France					marc.fontecave at cea.fr		France
Augusto Gonzalez	Instituto de Cibernetica, Matematica y Fisica		agonzale at icmf.inf.cu			Cuba
Victor Guallar Tasies	Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion de Barcelona	victor.guallarbsc.es			España
Laura Hermosilla 	Universidad Autonoma de Madrid				laura.hermosilla at uam.es		España
Karl Kleinermanns	Universitat Dusseldorf					kleinermanns at uni-duesseldorf.de	Germany
Walter Kohn		University of California - Santa Barbara		kohn at physics.ucsb.edu		USA
Matt Law		University of California - Irvine			matt.law at uci.edu			USA
Todd Martinez		Stanford University					Todd.Martinez at stanford.edu		USA
William E. Moerner	Stanford University					wmoerner at stanford.edu		USA
Franz-Peter Montforts	University of Bremen					mont at chemie.uni-bremen.de		Germany
Massimo Olivucci	Universita di Siena/Bowling Green State University	olivucci at unisi.it			Italia / USA
Carlos S. Perez		Universidad de La Habana				cp at fq.uh.cu				Cuba
Claude Pouchan		Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour		claude.pouchan at univ-pau.fr		France
Ursula Röthlisberger	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne		ursula.roethlisberger at epfl.ch	Switzerland
Jesus Rubayo		Instituto Superior de Ciencias y Tecnologias Aplicadas	jrs at instec.cu			Cuba
Gustavo Scuseria	Rice University						guscus at rice.edu			USA
Perla Wahnon Benarroch	Universidad Politecnica de Madrid			perla at etsit.upm.es			España

Note: We regret to announce that Prof. Luis Serrano-Andres, who was invited to talk in SEADIM 8 and kindly accepted to
come, passed away in 2010.



Scientific Committee:

Luis Alberto Montero, Laboratorio de Quimica Computacional y Teorica y Centro Virtual de Bioinformatica, Facultad de Quimica,
Universidad de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba

Jose Manuel Garcia de la Vega, Departamento de Quimica Fisica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid,
Madrid, España

Roald Hoffmann, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Baker Laboratory, Ithaca, USA

Wolfram Sander, Lehrstuhl fur Organische Chemie II, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany



Deadline for submission of poster abstracts: 31/04/2011



Relevant web pages:

http://habana.qfa.uam.es/seadim8  or  http://karin.fq.uh.cu/seadim8
http://habana.qfa.uam.es/seadim8/seadim8.pdf  or http://karin.fq.uh.cu/seadim8/seadim8.pdf



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