From chemistry-request #at# ccl.net Fri Mar 22 18:26:40 1991
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 16:50:32 CST
From: elbert&$at$&tc1.chem.iastate.edu (Stephen T. Elbert)
To: chemistry -A_T- ccl.net
Subject: Ab Initio Methods in Quantum Chemistry Symposium
Status: R

Dear Colleague,

Professor Klaus Ruedenberg recently celebrated his 70th anniversary and,
in accordance with Iowa State University rules, will retire from teaching
next June.  Professor Ruedenberg assures us he has no plans to retire from
research.  To recognize this milestone we are organizing an international
symposium in his honor.  The symposium will cover ab initio methods in
quantum chemistry and will be held at the Gateway Center in Ames, Iowa,
May 9-11, 1991.

The format will consist of a series of plenary lectures each day and poster
sessions Thursday and Friday evenings.  Weather permitting, there will be
an outing to the nearby Ledges State Park Saturday afternoon, to be
followed by a banquet Saturday evening.  A welcoming reception will be held
Wednesday evening.  Talks will cover applications as well as theory.
The registration fee is $180 before April 1.

More information may be obtained via anonymous ftp from chem1.Chem.IaState.edU
(129.186.201.16) in directory pub/symposium.  Sites without ftp capability
should send requests to elbert:~at~:tc1.chem.iastate.edu or elbert:~at~:alisuvax.bitnet.
Information is available in either PostScript or ASCII form so please
specify your preference.

The speakers and the titles they have supplied so far are:
Jan Almlof
Ernest R. Davidson "QDVARPT Calculations for Hydrogen Bonded Dimers"
Thom H. Dunning, Jr.
William A. Goddard III
Mark S. Gordon "Structure, Bonding, and Reactivity in Organometallic Chemistry"
Nicholas C. Handy "Analytic Derivative Theory"
A. Doug McLean
Wilfried Meyer
Robert G. Parr
John A. Pople "The Computation of Molecular Energies"
Peter Pulay "Geometry Optimization and Correlation Energy Calculations in
             Large Molecules"
Bjorn Roos
C. C. J. Roothaan
Henry F. Schaefer III "Cyanomethylene and Benzyne: Is it Possible to Escape
                       from the Tar Baby?"
H. Bernard Schlegel
W. H. Eugen Schwarz "Chemical Bonding in Relativistic Quantum Chemistry"
Peter R. Taylor "Atomic Correlation and Molecular Binding Energies"
H.-Joachim Werner "Accurate Potential Energy Surfaces for Elementary Chemical
                   Processes"

The plenary sessions will be chaired by the following former students and
post-docs of Prof. Ruedenberg: Richard Bardo, Clyde Edmiston, Walter England,
David F. Feller,  Ernest Mehler,  Richard Raffenetti,  Michael W. Schmidt,
David Silver, Otto Steinborn,  and Petros Valtazanos.

Stephen Elbert        Andrew Komornicki
Ames Laboratory       Polyatomics Research Institute


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