Winter School in Theoretical Chemistry
This Year's Winter School
Winter School 2011
Last Year's Winter School
Winter School 2010
Previous Schools
What were the previous schools like and who were the participants?
Their level ranges from graduate students to postdoctoral level
and professors. Some of the first-mentioned may take the school for
credit, the rest just wants to learn something new. Most people will
have a physical chemistry/chemical physics/molecular physics background,
but we also always have tried to have people from the application area
of each particular year. To give you an idea, the earlier Schools,
and lecturers, were:
- Applied Quantum Chemistry (Gropen, Roos, Wilson)
- Liquid Crystals (Emsley, Luckhurst, Sjöblom)
- Quantum Chemistry (Bursten, Pajunen, A.J. Sadlej, J. Sadlej)
- Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Pharmacology (Gilbert, A. Laaksonen, Lohr, Pietilä, Teleman, Weinstein)
- New Chemical Species and Their Detection (Boggs, Bowmaker, Clark, Frenking, Grotemeyer, Handy, Jalonen, Pyykkö)
- DNA, Heavy Metals and their Interactions (Balch, Laitalainen, Osman, Pyykkö, Schwerdtfeger, Wahlgren)
- Quantum Chemistry of Complex Systems (Adamowicz, Helgaker, Joergensen, Karelson, Karlström)
- Condensed Matter: From Metals to Membranes (Ala-Nissilä, Eriksson, Kokko, A. Laaksonen, Müller-Plathe, Puska)
- Colloid Chemistry in Materials Science (L. Laaksonen, Lemmetyinen, Rosenholm, Sjöblom, F. Sundholm)
- Relativity and Pseudopotentials (Daudey, Heully, Marian, Pyykkö, Teichteil, Wahlgren)
- Calculation of NMR Parameters (Dederichs, Fleischer, Gauss, Hemmingsen, Jokisaari, Kaupp, Nakatsuji, Oddershede, Pyykkö, Ruud)
- Determination of Nuclear Quadrupole Moments (Bieron, Hemmingsen, Kaldor, Kellö, Labzowsky, Olsen, Pyykkö, Sadlej, K. Schwarz, Visscher)
- Solvation (Mikkelsen, Karelson, Klamt, Luo, A. Laaksonen, Laasonen, Tamm)
- Chemical Reactions
(Miller,
Minaev,
Rzepa,
Scott,
Troe)
- Electron and Proton Transfer in Biological Systems
(Ulstrup,
Scheiner,
Wikström,
Zinth,
Bala, Korppi-Tommola)
- Magnetic Properties of Molecules,
(Engström,
Fernandez,
Gauss,
Helgaker,
Lazzeretti,
Pedersen,
Rizzo,
Schimmelpfennig,
Vaara,
Wasylishen)
- Condensed Phase Dynamics, (
Marx,
Nemukhin
Nieminen
Nordlund
Schmidt )
- Large Molecules: Linear Scaling and Related Electronic Structure Calculation Methods,
(Manby, Nemukhin, Pedersen, Rissanen, Ryde, Sauer, Scuseria )
- Quantum Chemistry Bordering Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,
(Ahlrichs, Baer, Häkkinen, Linnanto, Luo, Puska, Quinn, Torsti, Weigend)
- A Frontier of Chemistry: New Species,
(Andrews, Christie, Crawford, Gagliardi, Gerry, Head-Gordon, Klapötke, Räsänen, Seppelt, Wang)
- Nanophotonics,
(Furche, Hättig, Leskelä, Olsen, Tretiak, Zrenner)
- Astrochemistry,
(Peter Botschwina, Wolf Geppert, Tom Millar, Stephan Schlemmer, John Stanton, Jonathan Tennyson)
- Actinide Chemistry,
(Lester Andrews, Zoila Barandiaran, Steven Conradson, Kit Cummins, Jean-Pierre Dognon, Michael Dolg, John Gibson,
Ingvar Grenthe, Nik Kaltsoyannis, Jukka Lehto, Petra Panak, Russell Pitzer, Björn Roos, Notker Rösch, Valerie Vallet, Luuk Visscher)
- Reactions on Surfaces - Towards Realistic Computational Modelling of Surface Reactions
(Thomas Bligaard, Karoliina Honkala, Ari Seitsonen)
- Chemical Bonding
(Lester Andrews, Gernot Frenking, Martin Kaupp, Peter Knowles, Jan Lundell, Pekka Pyykkö, Michael W. Schmidt,
Dage Sundholm, Frank R. Wagner, Antti Pursula)
- Accurate Molecular Structure by Experiment and Theory
(Wesley Allen, Emmanuel Fromager, Jürgen Gauss, Georgiy V. Girichev, Jens-Uwe Grabow, Trygve Helgaker,
Hanna Lignell, Norbert Mitzel, Heinz Oberhammer, Cristina Puzzarini, John Stanton)
The 2007 school on actinide chemistry was supported by ACTINET and especially the Theoretical User Lab (ThUL).
The 1994 program was organized by the Toulouse group. The 1994-6 schools were
supported by REHE (the research programme 'Relativistic Effects
in Heavy-Element Chemistry and Physics' of the European Science Foundation).
In 1995, 1997 and 1998 NorFA granted support for the Nordic and Baltic participants.
Since 1998 this event is part of the national graduate school LASKEMO.
In 2008, the Winter School is organised by Lauri Halonen (Helsinki) and Kari Laasonen (Oulu) members of the LASKEMO gradschool.
For graduate students, a test will be arranged afterwards.
For it we would like to have a couple of questions
(and answers, unless those are obvious) and literature definition,
if any. Would the lecturers, please, bring them with them. Otherwise we are not even
bothering you with an abstract.)
In practice, almost all of the few theoretical chemists in Finland
attend the School. The topic is changed every year.
The atmosphere has been intensive and informal. The old building at
Et. Hesperiankatu 4 was small and shabby. No deterioration of spirit
was observed after removal to the shiny new building at A.I. Virtasen
aukio 1 in 1995, however.
Contacts: Pekka.Pyykko@helsinki.fi, sundholm@chem.helsinki.fi
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