Events
The 9th Congress on Electronic Structure: Principles and Applications (ESPA), will be held in Badajoz (Extremadura, Spain) from the 2nd to the 4th of July 2014.
The ESPA conferences, initiated in 1998, have been held every two years and cover all major fields of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. The previous ESPA editions were organized in Madrid (1998), San Sebastián (2000), Sevilla (2002), Valladolid (2004), Santiago de Compostela (2006), Palma de Mallorca (2008), Oviedo (2010) and Barcelona (2012). These conferences were initially intended to bring together the Spanish Theoretical and Computational Chemistry community. They have grown over time (both in national and international participation), thereby evolving into a key event with international reputation in the field.
The conference encompasses plenary lectures, oral communications and posters presentations. All participants are invited to submit an abstract for an oral communication or a poster.
Proceedings of the conference will be published in Theoretical Chemistry Accounts upon the usual peer-review process. Details on how to submit the manuscript to the journal will be conveniently provided.
We hope to meet you in Badajoz between the 2nd and the 4th of July 2014.
Previous to the ESPA2014 the Third Annual Workshop of the Joint Doctorate Program on Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling (TCCM) (http://www.emtccm.org/tccm-jd/) will take place the 1st of July in the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Extremadura.
The International Workshop on Photoionization and Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering (IWP & RIXS 2014) will take place in Erice, Sicily, Italy during 26th August – 1st September, 2014 and will be hosted by the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture.
The aim of the workshop is to discuss excitation and ionization of a variety of targets by photon impact, as well as the decay of these photoexcited and photoionized species and the use of photon-in¬photon-out techniques. Areas of interest range from atoms to molecules, ions, radicals, clusters, liquids, adsorbates and solids.
A special session will be dedicated to the memory of Prof. Uwe Becker who was initially a chairman of the workshop.
More informations can be found visiting the Conference web site at: http://www.iwp_rixs2014.mlib.cnr.it
The XLIC WG1&WG2 Expert Meeting “From Ultrafast to Ultraslow Dynamics in Molecules and Clusters” will be held in the Weizmann Institute of Science Israel , from 23th to 25th January 2017.The Meeting is jointly organized by the Local organizing committee, the team of the conference unit of the Weizmann Institute and COST CM1204 Action (XLIC).
The workshop participation is open to everybody.
Scope and Program of the Meeting
Dynamical processes in molecular and cluster systems play an important role in different disciplines of research including atmospheric and interstellar chemistry, biology, nano-science and more. It is appealing to classify different types of dynamics according to their time scale – from attosecond electronic dynamics, femtosecond and picosecond ro-vibrational motion up to typical nanosecond times of spontaneous radiative processes. However, even in small clusters and biomolecules, coupling of many degree’s of freedom can lead to ultra-slow dynamics extending up to millisecond times.
In recent years, experimental techniques for studying these different dynamics have considerably advanced – from the development of ultrafast light sources, including high-order harmonic generation and free electron laser X-ray facilities, as well as highly controlled ion traps and ion storage rings that allow following a slow evolving time evolution of isolated molecular and cluster ions. On the theoretical side, quantum mechanical calculations provide insight regarding short time scales, while statistical models can describe long time dynamics on the ensemble level.
These communities have developed in parallel and often with little interaction with each-other. The goal of this workshop will be to bridge the gap between the different communities towards a full understanding of molecular and cluster dynamics. For example, it will be valuable to understand the role of initial ultrafast electronic and vibrational rearrangement of an isolated system on its slow decay by statistical fragmentation. Does ultrafast dynamics leading to internal conversion influence delayed recurrent fluorescence events? What is the importance of the coherent vibrational motion for long term processes and spectroscopic probes of isolated interstellar environments or biomolecular systems?
We aim at achieving this goal by bringing together leading experts from the different fields: including atto-second science, femto-chemistry, action spectroscopy, ion storage devices, time-dependent quantum mechanics and statistical physics – in order to promote a common language and shared goals. In particular, participants will be asked to highlight the scientific goals and challenges of each field to promote collaborative efforts. We hope that this conference will generate long term collaborations that will advance our understanding of molecular and cluster science across the different time scales.
Immportant dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 1st, 2016
Registration Deadline: January 5th, 2017
Registration
List of invited speakers
Noam Agmon, Hebrew University, Israel
Lars H. Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Itzik Ben-Itzhak, Kansas State University, USA
Valerie Blanchet, CELIA, Bordeaux, France
Anastasia Bochenkova, Moscow State University, Russia
Steen Brondsted Nielsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Philip Bucksbaum, Stanford, USA
Francesca Calegari, Politecnico Milano, Italy
Lorenz Cederbaum, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Henrik Cederquist, Stockholm University, Sweden
Brett Esry, Kansas State University, USA
Sharly Fleischer, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Jason Greenwood, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Christiane Koch, Universität Kassel, Germany
Ronni Kosloff, Hebrew University, Israel
Holger Kreckel, MPI-K Heidelberg, Germany
Stephen Leone, UC Berkeley, USA
Nimrod Moiseyev, Technion, Israel
Edvardas Narevicius, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Daniel Neumark, UC Berkeley USA
Thomas Pfeifer, MPI-K Heidelberg, Germany
Igor Schapiro, Hebrew University, Israel
Haruo Shiromaru, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Jan. R. R. Verlet, Durham University, UK
Mathias Weber, JILA, Colorado, USA
Roland Wester, Universität Innsbruck , Austria
The scientific workshop: “Massive Computation for Ultrafast Molecular Breaking” (MACUMB 2017) will be held in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) on 25th and 26th of May 2017.
The scientific program (http://www.macumb.info/programme.html) includes ten invited talks that will be combined with two 3-hours practical sessions in computer rooms. We aim to bring together developers of the state-of-the-art scientific software in the field of quantum chemistry and molecular physics.
Registration is already open and closes on May 15th, 2017. The registration for the meeting is free for all participants.
You can find detailed information at http://www.macumb.info/
Organizers:
Alicia Palacios, Sergio Díaz-Tendero and Jesús González-Vázquez
Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
