The CRC-EC Joint International Symposium on Chemical Theory for Complex Systems was successfully completed. We sincerely appreciate lecturers, session chairs, participants, and all the contributors in the symposium! | |||||
Success in designing efficient catalysts for scientifically and technologically important processes (such as water oxidation, nitrogen fixation, inert C-H bond functionalization, to name only a few) requires an atomistic level understanding of fundamental principles of the catalysis. Advances in designing homogenous, heterogeneous, as well as immobilized catalysts require state-of-the-art multidisciplinary approaches and true collaboration of scientists across the disciplines. The use of modern Computational/Theoretical approaches in close collaboration with state-of-the-art experiments is proven to be invaluable for shedding light on key principles of catalysis and knowledge-based design of more efficient catalysis. However, the complexity in vital catalytic processes that involve multiple components requires further developments of theoretical methodology for grealh systems. To promote knowledge-based catalysis designing the Catalysis Research Center (CRC) of Hokkaido University (Japan) and Emerson Center for Scientific Computation (EC) of Emory University (USA) are jointly organizing a symposium at Emory University on the gChemical Theory for Complex Systemsh. This symposium is designed to a have profound impact on the knowledge-based catalyst design and advanced computational/theoretical methodology. | |||||
Keynote speakers | |||||
William A. Goddard, III | William H. Miller | Keiji Morokuma | George C. Schatz | ||
Plenary speakers | |||||
Joel M. Bowman | Hiroshi Nakatsuji | Per E. M. Siegbahn | Kazuo Takatsuka | ||
Koichi Yamashita | Tom Ziegler | ||||
Invited speakers | |||||
Qiang Cui | Francesco Evangelista | Shigehiko Hayashi | Rigoberto Hernandez | ||
James T. Kindt | Akira Nakayama | C. David Sherrill | |||
Organizers: | Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, JAPAN | |
Emerson Center, Emory University, USA | ||
Co-Organizer: | Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry (FIFC), Kyoto University | |
Co-Chairs: | Shigeyoshi Sakaki (FIFC, Kyoto Univ.), Jamal G. Musaev (EC, Emory Univ.) | |
Kiyotaka Asakura (CRC, Hokkaido Univ.), Joel M. Bowman (Emory Univ.) | ||
Organizing Committee: | Kiyotaka Asakura (CRC, Hokkaido Univ.), Joel M. Bowman (Emory Univ.) | |
Francesco A. Evangelista (Emory Univ.), Jun-ya Hasegawa (CRC, Hokkaido Univ.) | ||
James T. Kindt (Emory Univ.), Jamal G. Musaev (EC, Emory Univ.) | ||
Shigeyoshi Sakaki (FIFC, Kyoto Univ.), Koichi Yamashita (Univ. Tokyo) | ||
Co-Sponsors: | Department of Chemistry (Emory Univ.), Microway Inc., Gaussian Inc. | |
The Hightower Foundation (Emory Univ.) | ||
HPC Systems, Concurrent Systems | ||
Contact information: | Jun-ya Hasegawa | |
Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan | ||
Phone: +81-11-706-9146, Fax: +81-11-706-9139 | ||
E-mail: iccrc (at) cat.hokudai.ac.jp | ||
URL: http://www.cat.hokudai.ac.jp/ |