Latest update: 9 November 2023

Helsinki Winter School in Theoretical Chemistry

This is an annual School on topics that change every year

This Year's Winter School

Winter School 2024 Embedding and Solvation

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:

  1. Applied Quantum Chemistry (Gropen, Roos, Wilson)
  2. Liquid Crystals (Emsley, Luckhurst, Sjöblom)
  3. Quantum Chemistry (Bursten, Pajunen, A.J. Sadlej, J. Sadlej)
  4. Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Pharmacology (Gilbert, A. Laaksonen, Lohr, Pietilä, Teleman, Weinstein)
  5. New Chemical Species and Their Detection (Boggs, Bowmaker, Clark, Frenking, Grotemeyer, Handy, Jalonen, Pyykkö)
  6. DNA, Heavy Metals and their Interactions (Balch, Laitalainen, Osman, Pyykkö, Schwerdtfeger, Wahlgren)
  7. Quantum Chemistry of Complex Systems (Adamowicz, Helgaker, Jørgensen, Karelson, Karlström)
  8. Condensed Matter: From Metals to Membranes (Ala-Nissilä, Eriksson, Kokko, A. Laaksonen, Müller-Plathe, Puska)
  9. Colloid Chemistry in Materials Science (L. Laaksonen, Lemmetyinen, Rosenholm, Sjöblom, F. Sundholm)
  10. Relativity and Pseudopotentials (Daudey, Heully, Marian, Pyykkö, Teichteil, Wahlgren)
  11. Calculation of NMR Parameters (Dederichs, Fleischer, Gauss, Hemmingsen, Jokisaari, Kaupp, Nakatsuji, Oddershede, Pyykkö, Ruud)
  12. Determination of Nuclear Quadrupole Moments (Bieron, Hemmingsen, Kaldor, Kellö, Labzowsky, Olsen, Pyykkö, Sadlej, K. Schwarz, Visscher)
  13. Solvation (Mikkelsen, Karelson, Klamt, Luo, A. Laaksonen, Laasonen, Tamm)
  14. Chemical Reactions (Miller, Minaev, Rzepa, Scott, Troe)
  15. Electron and Proton Transfer in Biological Systems (Ulstrup, Scheiner, Wikström, Zinth, Korppi-Tommola)
  16. Magnetic Properties of Molecules, (Engström, Fernandez, Gauss, Helgaker, Lazzeretti, Pedersen, Rizzo, Schimmelpfennig, Vaara, Wasylishen)
  17. Condensed Phase Dynamics, (Marx, Nemukhin, Nieminen, Nordlund, Schmidt)
  18. Large Molecules: Linear Scaling and Related Electronic Structure Calculation Methods, (Manby, Nemukhin, Pedersen, Rissanen, Ryde, Sauer, Scuseria )
  19. Quantum Chemistry Bordering Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, (Ahlrichs, Baer, Häkkinen, Linnanto, Luo, Puska, Quinn, Torsti, Weigend)
  20. A Frontier of Chemistry: New Species, (Andrews, Christie, Crawford, Gagliardi, Gerry, Head-Gordon, Klapötke, Räsänen, Seppelt, Wang)
  21. Nanophotonics, (Furche, Hättig, Leskelä, Olsen, Tretiak, Zrenner)
  22. Astrochemistry, (Peter Botschwina, Wolf Geppert, Tom Millar, Stephan Schlemmer, John Stanton, Jonathan Tennyson)
  23. 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)
  24. Reactions on Surfaces - Towards Realistic Computational Modelling of Surface Reactions (Thomas Bligaard, Karoliina Honkala, Ari Seitsonen)
  25. Chemical Bonding (Lester Andrews, Gernot Frenking, Martin Kaupp, Peter Knowles, Jan Lundell, Pekka Pyykkö, Michael W. Schmidt, Dage Sundholm, Frank R. Wagner, Antti Pursula)
  26. 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)
  27. Excited State Properties (Andreas Dreuw, Ville R.I. Kaila, Roland Lindh, Benedetta Mennucci, James M.W. Murray, Johannes Neugebauer, Patrick Norman, Tomasz Wesolowski)
  28. Nuclear motion in molecules (Joel Bowman, Ove Christiansen, Attila Császàr, Lauri Halonen, Martina Havenith-Newen, Markus Metsälä, Janne Pesonen, Tapio Rantala, David van der Spoel, David J. Wales)
  29. Theoretical Spectroscopy (Hélène Bolvin, Ove Christiansen, Claudia Filippi, Jürgen Gauss, Mikko Hakala, Anna Krylov, Christel Marian, Patrick Norman, Kenneth Ruud, John Stanton, Colin Western)
  30. Theoretical f-Element Chemistry (Jochen Autschbach, Nik Kaltsoyannis,Stefan Knecht,Andrew Kerridge,Louise Natrajan, Pekka Pyykkö, Joris van Slageren, Valérie Vallet)
  31. Computational Biochemistry (Jochen Blumberger, Carles Curutchet, Adrian Goldman, Fahmi Himo, Gerhard Hummer, Ville R. I. Kaila, Lynn Kamerlin, Edina Rosta, Ulf Ryde, Ilpo Vattulainen)
  32. Current Trends in Electronic Structure Theory Methods (Head-Gordon, Kussmann, Lehtola, Olsen, Parkkinen, Pernal, Reiher, Zgid)
  33. Molecular Energy and Electron Transfer (Barbatti, Curutchet, Groenhof, Kaila, Kussmann, Marian, Plasser, Österbacka)
  34. Machine Learning in Theoretical Chemistry (Behler, Ceriotti, Deringer, Goodpaster, Isayev, von Lilienfeld, Popelier, Todorovic)
  35. Inorganic Chemistry (Addicoat, Berger, Camargo, Cox, Karttunen, Krewald, Kulik, Law, Patzschke, Swart)
  36. Cancelled
  37. Cancelled
  38. QC-4C: Quantum Computers for Chemistry (Dattani, Dobrautz, Hirvonen, Izmaylov, Johansson, Knecht, Maniscalco, Möttönen)
  39. Dynamic processes of molecules in electronic excited state