The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)‘s Sagamore XIX – 2018: Conference on Quantum Crystallography

8 July 2018 14:00 - 13 July 2018 13:00, Halifax, Canada


Introduction
List of topics:
Experimentally-constrained wavefunctions and density matrices.
Progress in DFT and theoretical methods for solids within quantum crystallography.
Topological approaches: Bader’s quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM), ELF, NCI, etc.
Laser-molecule/crystal interaction.
Pump-probe approaches, time-resolved X-ray diffraction.
Experimental probes for charge, spin, and momentum densities, bright sources, Auger, etc.
Functional materials.
Nanoscale: Structure, dynamics and densities.
Electronic properties of nanomaterials.
Charge, spin, and momentum densities in chemical and crystal engineering.
Materials under extreme conditions: High pressure, strong external electric fields, intense laser fields etc.
Quantum crystallography in the life sciences.
Round table discussion on defining Quantum Crystallography, its future, central problems, and contributions to the intersecting spheres of crystallography and quantum chemistry and physics.
Sponsorship & supporting organisations
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)

Mount Saint Vincent University


McMaster University


Natural Sciences and Egineering Council of Canada (NSERC)

Richard F. W. Bader Family

TK Gristmill Software

Dalhousie University

Université Laval

Saint Mary’s University

Destination Halifax, Inc.

eSourceEvents.com, Inc.

Physica Scripta

Crystals

Computation — Open Access Journal of Computational Science

Delta Halifax and Delta Barrington

Prince George Hotel
Venue
Halifax Convention Center (HCC)

Halifax Convention Center (HCC), 1650 Argyle Street Halifax, NS B3J 0E6 - Canada, Halifax, B3J 0E6, Canada

Organised by
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS & CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Chérif F. Matta, Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada)

Paul W. Ayers, McMaster University (Canada)

EVENT MANAGER

Lisa Cochrane, Event Manager and Media Contact (Canada)

FINANCE MANAGER

Cathleen Madgett, Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada)

ADMINISTRATION

Kerri AlSaidi, Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada)

IUCR COMMISSION ON QUANTUM CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

PRESENT CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION
Jean-Michel Gillet, Ecole Centrale Paris (France)

PAST CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION


Piero Macchi, University of Berne (Switzerland)

PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION


Paulina Dominiak, University of Warsaw (Poland)

Enrique Espinosa, Université de Lorraine (France)

Arsen Goukassov, CEA (France)

Jozef Kožíšek, Slovak University of Technology (Slovak Republic)

Chérif F. Matta, Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada)

Eiji Nishibori, University of Tsukuba (Japan)

José Ricardo Sabino, Universidade Federal de Goiás (Brazil)

Wolfgang Scherer, University of Augsburg (Germany)

Tejender S. Thakur, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (India)

EX OFFICIO MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION

Toru Ishigaki, Ibaraki University (Japan)

Other Members of the International Organizing Committee (In Addition to the CCSMD Members)


Julia Contreras-Garcia, CNRS (France)
Malcolm Cooper, University of Warwick (UK)
Carlo Gatti, Italian National Research Council (Italy)
Alessandro Genoni, CNRS (France)
Beatrice Gillon, CEA-CNRS (France)
Simon Grabowsky, University of Bremen (Germany)
Jesús Hernández-Trujillo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Todd Keith, SemiChem, Inc. (USA) & TK Gristmill Software (USA)
Miroslav Kohout, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Germany)
Angel Martín Pendás, University of Oviedo (Spain)
A. Alan Pinkerton, University of Toledo (USA)
Lou Massa, City University of New York (USA)
Tayur N. Guru Row, Indian Institute of Science (India)
Vladimir Tsirelson, Mendeleev Russian University of Chemical Technology (Russia)

Local Organizing Committee

Jeff Turner, Planning and Management, Destination Halifax, Inc. (Canada)
Dawn Baldwin, Director of Sales, Halifax Convention Center (Canada)
Andrew Tyne, Event Manager, Halifax Convention Center (Canada)
Youji Cheng (Graduate Student), Programme, Saint Mary’s University and Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada)
Cathleen Madgett, Finance, Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada)
Rémi Lefebvre, Registration, eSource Event, Inc. (Canada)
Tammy Lauritsen, Operations, Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada)
Carrie Armsworthy, Administration, Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada)
Paul Lindgreen, Web-site Design, (Canada)  GreenWeb Solutions (Canada)

Richard Bader Prize Selection Committee

James Britten, McMaster University (Canada)
Kersti Hermansson, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Todd Keith, SemiChem, Inc. (USA) & TK Gristmill Software (USA)
Thanh-Tung Nguyen-Dang, Université Laval (Canada)
John Tse, University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

Miguel Blanco Prize Selection Committee

Carlo Gatti, Italian National Research Council (Italy)
María Aurora Costales Castro, University of Oviedo (Spain)
Piero Macchi, University of Berne (Switzerland)
Angel Martín Pendás, University of Oviedo (Spain)
Paul Popelier, Manchester University (UK)
Philip Nakashima, Monash University (Australia)
Wolfgang Scherer, University of Augsburg (Germany)

International Scientific Advisory Board

James Anderson, RIKEN (Japan) and McMaster University (Canada)
Ronald Cook, TDA Research, Inc. (USA)
Fernando Cortés Guzmán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Ignacy Cukrowski, University of Pretoria (South Africa)
Birger Dittrich, Göttingen University (Germany)
Mark Eberhart, Colorado School of Mines (USA)
Gernot Frenking, Marburg University (Germany)
Shridar Gadre, Indian Institute of Technology (India)
Yuri Grin, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Benoit Guillot, Université de Lorraine (France)
Bo Iversen, University of Aarhus (Denmark)
Dylan Jayatilaka, University Western Australia (Australia)
Samantha Jenkins, Hunan Normal University (China)
Erin Johnson, Dalhousie University (Canada)
Steven R. Kirk, Hunan Normal University (China)
Claude Lecomte, Université de Lorraine (France)
Víctor Luaña Cabal, University of Oviedo (Spain)
Suzy Lidström, Physica Scripta – Royal Swedish Academy of Science (Sweden)
Preston MacDougall, Middle Tennessee State University (USA).
Philip Nakashima, Monash University (Australia)
Thanh-Tung Nguyen-Dang, Université Laval (Canada)
Sonja Nikolić, Rugjer Bošković Institute (Croatia)
Paul Popelier, Manchester University (UK)
Markus Reiher, ETH-Zurich (Swizerland)
SeyedAbdolreza Sadjadi, Hong Kong University (Hong Kong)
Sason Shaik, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Mark Spackman, University Western Australia (Australia)
Dietmar Stalke, Göttingen University (Germany)
Nagamani Sukumar, Shiv Nadar University (India)
Masaki Takata, RIKEN (Japan)
Piero Ugliengo, University of Torino (Italy)
Krzysztof Woźniak, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Contact information
Search
 
 
Showing all upcoming events
Start Date
End Date
Location
Subject area
Event type

Advertisement
Spotlight


E-mail Enquiry
*
*
*
*