All lecture sessions will be in The Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.
Saturday, 24 July
| 2pm-10pm | Registration in Fisher Building St John's College. |
| 7pm | Reception, St Catharine's College - Main Court. (5 mins walk from St John's College, along King's Parade) |
Sunday, 25 July
| 8.40-8.45 | Announcements | |
| 8.45-9.00 | Sir David King | Opening Remarks |
| Keiji Morokuma | Chair | |
| 9.00-9.10 | David Buckingham | Career of Nicholas Handy as an academic colleague |
| 9.10-10.05 | Nicholas Handy | (i) Density functional theory, (ii) Quantum Monte Carlo" (The Molecular Physics Lecture) |
| 10.05-10.40 | Mike Robb | Can photochemistry be explained by a reaction path alone? |
| 10.40-11.10 | Coffee - Fisher Building Foyer | |
| Wim Klopper | Chair | |
| 11.10-11.50 | Emily Carter | Reduced scaling electron correlation methods |
| 11.50-12.20 | H-Joachim Werner | Application of local correlation methods to chemical reactions |
| 12.30-2.00 | Lunch - St John's College Hall | |
| Julia Rice | Chair | |
| 2.10-2.50 | Michele Parrinello | Exploring complex energy surfaces |
| 2.50-3.20 | Ursula Röthlisberger | Successes and failures of DFT for biological systems |
| 3.20-4.00 | Tea- Fisher Building Foyer | |
| David Sherrill | Chair | |
| 4.00-4.35 | Evert Jan Baerends | Avoided crossings, vibronic coupling and the issue of double excitations in TDDFT |
| 4.35-5.10 | Richard Friesner | Modeling of protein active site chemistry using DFT based quantum chemical and mixed quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics methods |
| Jerzy Leszczynski | Chair | |
| 5.10-5.45 | Gustavo Scuseria | Recent progress in the development of exchange-correlation functionals |
| 7.00-8.30 | Dinner- (Those resident at St John's only) -St John's College Hall | |
| 8.30-10.30 | Poster Session 1- School of Pythagoras, St John's College |
Monday, 26 July
| Stuart Carter | Chair | |
| 9.00-9.15 | Brian Sutcliffe | Nicholas Handy and vibrating-rotating molecules |
| 9.15-10.05 | Joel Bowman | The path to progress in molecular vibration theory beyond the harmonic approximation: why is this necessary? (Plenary Lecture) |
| Curtis Janssen | Chair | |
| 10.05-10.40 | Császár, Attila | Accurate first-principles rovibrational spectroscopy |
| 10.40-11.15 | Coffee- Fisher Building Foyer | |
| Session Dedicated to John Pople | ||
| Peter Gill | Chair | |
| 11.15-11.50 | Martin Head-Gordon | Localized orbitals and local electron correlation |
| 11.50-12.25 | Axel Becke | Post Hartree-Fock correlation functionals |
| 12.30-2.00 | Lunch - St John's College Hall | |
| Peter Pulay | Chair | |
| 2.15-2.30 | Roger Amos | Development of analytic derivative methods in Cambridge |
| 2.30-3.20 | Ernie Davidson | Local spin, population analysis and DFT energetics (Plenary Lecture) |
| 3.20-4.00 | Tea- Fisher Building Foyer | |
| Sigrid Peyerimhoff | Chair | |
| 4.00-4.35 | Jürgen Gauss | High-accuracy coupled-cluster calculations of molecular geometries and rotational constants |
| 4.35-5.10 | Piotr Piecuch | Noniterative coupled-cluster methods for bond breaking, diradicals, and excited electronic states |
| Petr Carsky | Chair | |
| 5.10-5.45 | Peter Taylor | Molecular vibrations and molecular properties |
| 7.00-8.30 | Dinner- (Those resident at St John's only) - St John's College Hall | |
| 8.30-10.30 | Poster Session 2 - School of Pythagoras, St John's College |
Tuesday, 27 July
| Bill Green | Chair | |
| 9.00-9.15 | Peter Knowles | Nicholas Handy and full configuration interaction |
| 9.15-10.05 | Bill Miller | Beyond the quantum instanton: a more rigorous approach to quantum reaction rates (Plenary Lecture) |
| Bernie Brooks | Chair | |
| 10.05-10.40 | Jean-Pierre Hansen | Sedimentation equilibria in complex fluids: an application of classical density functional theory |
| 10.40-11.15 | Coffee- Fisher Building Foyer | |
| Pavel Rosmus | Chair | |
| 11.15-11.50 | David Yarkony | They are surfaces not isolated points: Conical Intersections of the two lowest electronic states in NH3 and H2COH |
| 11.50-12.25 | Don Truhlar | Computing thermochemistry and thermochemical kinetics |
| 12.30-1.00 | Conference Photograph | |
| 1.00-2.00 | Lunch - St John's College Hall | |
| 2.00-7.00 | Free time | |
| 7.00-8.30 | Dinner- (Those resident at St John's only) - St John's College Hall | |
| 8.30-10.30 | Poster Session 3 - School of Pythagoras, St John's College |
Wednesday, 28 July
| Kimihiko Hirao | Chair | |
| 9.00-9.15 | David Tozer | Nicholas Handy and density functional theory |
| 9.15-10.05 | Reinhart Ahlrichs | Chemistry and quantum chemistry, a personal view (Plenary Lecture) |
| Jan Martin | Chair | |
| 10.05-10.40 | Trygve Helgaker | The application of density functional response theory to large molecular systems |
| 10.40-11.15 | Coffee- Fisher Building Foyer | |
| Paolo Lazzaretti | Chair | |
| 11.15-11.50 | Per Siegbahn | Quantum chemical studies of redox active enzymes |
| 11.50-12.25 | Pekka Pyykkö | The metallophilic attraction |
| 12.30-2.00 | Lunch - St John's College Hall | |
| Tim Lee | Chair | |
| 2.15-2.50 | David Mazziotti | A new algorithm for the variational optimization of two-electron reduced density matrices with applications to atoms and molecules |
| 2.50-3.25 | Daniel Crawford | Coupled cluster calculations of optical rotation in chiral molecules |
| 3.25-4.00 | Tea- Fisher Building Foyer | |
| John Stanton | Chair | |
| 4.00-4.35 | Ali Alavi | Quantum Monte Carlo in the space of Slater determinants |
| 4.35-5.10 | Anna Krylov | Choosing the right tools: equation-of-motion tutorial through studies of the DMX anion. |
| Rod Bartlett | Chair | |
| 5.10-5.45 | Wes Borden | Does the Benson barrier to ring closure of trimethylene to cyclopropane exist? |
| Klaus Ruedenberg | Chair | |
| 5.45-6.10 | Björn Roos | Concluding Remarks |
| 7.00-7.30 | Pre-banquet drinks (Ticket holders only) St. John's College Gardens (weather permitting) |
| 7.30 | Banquet (Ticket holders only) St. John's College Hall |