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****   Winter School in Theoretical Chemistry 2016            ****
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****   CURRENT TRENDS in ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE THEORY METHODS  ****
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TIME:       12-15 December, 2016. (Start at 0900 on Monday)

VENUE:      Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki,
            A.I. Virtasen aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland


Registration is open, link to the form 



LANGUAGE:   English.

LECTURERS:  
 
Martin Head-Gordon (Berkeley): 
"Combinatorial design of density functionals" (1h)
"Variational energy decomposition analysis" (1h)
"Coupled cluster valence bond theory" (1h)
Jörg Kussmann  (LMU)         : 
"Accelerating Ab Initio Calculations Using Graphics Processing Units: SCF and Beyond" (2h)
"(Non-)Adiabatic Molecular Simulations @ GPUs" (1h)
Susi Lehtola  (Berkeley)     : 
"Localized orbitals and self-interaction corrected density-functional theory" (1h)
"Strong correlation in coupled cluster theory" (1h)
Jeppe Olsen  (Aarhus)        : 
"to be announced" (1h)
"to be announced" (1h)
"to be announced" (1h)
Pauli Parkkinen  (Helsinki)  : 
"to be announced" (1h)
Katarzyna Pernal  (Lodz)     : 
"Revival of Random Phase Approximation Methods for Predicting Electronic Structure" (3h) 
Markus Reiher  (ETH)         : 
"Density Matrix Renormalization Group in Quantum Chemistry" (3h)
Dominika Zgid (Michigan)     : 
"Embedding methods for quantum systems" (3h)


PROGRAM: 
               Monday          Tuesday         Wednesday       Thursday  

09:00-09:15    Welcome                                 
09:15-10:00    Head-Gordon 1   Zgid        1   Kussmann    1   Olsen     3  
10:00-10:45    Head-Gordon 2   Zgid        2   Kussmann    2   Zgid      3  
10:45-11:00    Break           Break           Break           Break      
11.00-11:45    Pernal      1   Head-Gordon 3   Reiher      3   Kussmann  3 
11:45-13:00    Lunch           Lunch           Lunch           Parkkinen 1
13:00-13:45    Olsen       1   Reiher      1   Free afternoon  Lunch &      
13:45-14:30    Olsen       2   Reiher      2                   Departure        
14:30-14:45    Break           Break            
14:45-15:30    Lehtola     1   Pernal      2  
15:30-16:15    Lehtola     2   Pernal      3 
16:15-         Posters                       
                                           

                               School dinner
                               for lecturers

CONTRIBUTED Any member of the School is welcome to put up a poster on the premises.
PAPERS:     Abstracts will be published only on the web 

PROCEEDINGS: None.

LEVEL:      Post-graduate and research, for scientists already involved in
            computational quantum chemistry. 
            Attending the lectures and a written essay will give 2 ECTS 

FEES:         University students and staff: none.

ADMISSION:    The participants are requested to register by 4 December 2016

REGISTRATION:  The registration form is found on Registration
 
ABSTRACT:     The abstract in pdf format can be sent to
              winterschool∂∂chem.helsinki.fi