| 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! | |||||
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| 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 “real” 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 “Chemical Theory for Complex Systems”. 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/ |