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Scientific Program of the Pulay Conference

May 29 – June 3, 2007

 

TUESDAY, May 29, 2007

17:15 – 17:30

Official Opening (Star Auditorium)

           Henry F. Schaefer III, conference organizer

           Ferenc Hudecz, Rector of Eötvös University (ELTE)

           Norbert Kroó, Vice President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

 

 

Section: Techniques of MQM (Star Auditorium)

17:30 – 18:05

O1

William A. Goddard
(Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.)

Chair: Emily Carter
(Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.)

 

 

First Principles Approaches to Design of Materials with Applications to Catalysis, Nanoelectronics, Fuel Cells, and Pharma

18:05 – 18:40

O2

Reinhart Ahlrichs
(Karlsruhe, Germany)

Chair: Roger D. Amos
(Canberra, Australia)

 

 

Clusters of Boron: Experimental and DFT Treatment of B12-B30

18:40 – 19:15

O3

Debashis Mukherjee
(Kolkata, India)

Chair: Péter Surján
(Budapest, Hungary)

 

 

Recent Advances in State-Specific Multi-Reference Coupled Cluster Formalism

19:30 – 21:00

 

Welcome Reception (Széchenyi Restaurant, Grand Hotel Margitsziget)

 

 


 

WEDNESDAY, May 30, 2007

Section: Analytic Derivatives (Star Auditorium)

9:00 – 9:20

H1

Wilfried Meyer
(Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Chair: Svein Saebo
(Missisippi State, MS, U.S.A.)

 

 

Early Developments of Analytic Techniques

9:20 – 9:55

O4

Mihály Kállay
(Budapest, Hungary)

Chair: Svein Saebo
(Missisippi State, MS, U.S.A.)

 

 

Coupled-Cluster Gradients and Beyond

9:55 – 10:30

O5

Shigeru Nagase
(Okazaki, Japan)

Chair: Krishnan Raghavachari
(Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.)

 

 

MP2 Energy and Gradient Calculations

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break (Ground floor foyer)

Section: Electron Correlation (Star Auditorium)

11:00 – 11:35

O6

Peter M. W. Gill
(Canberra, Australia)

Chair: Yundong Wu
(Hong Kong and Beijing, China)

 

 

Electron Correlation: A Hungarian Dance in Three Movements

11:35 – 12:10

O7

Edward Valeev
(Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.)

Chair: Gregory S. Tschumper
(University, MS, U.S.A.)

 

 

Efficient Explicitly Correlated R12 Methods Using Gaussian Geminals

12:10 – 14:00

Lunch break (Platan Restaurant)

Section: Techniques of MQM (Star Audotorium)

14:00 – 14:35

O8

Jürg Hutter
(Zürich, Switzerland)

Chair: Walter Thiel
(Mülheim, Germany)

 

 

First-Principles Simulation of Liquids

14:35 – 15:10

O9

Leo Radom
(Sydney, Australia)

Chair: William L. Jorgensen
(New Haven, CT, U.S.A.)

 

 

Transition-Metal-Free Hydrogenation

15:10 – 15:45

O10

Julia E. Rice
(San Jose, CA, U.S.A.)

Chair: T. Daniel Crawford
(Blacksburg,VA, U.S.A.)

 

 

Modeling Reactions in Solution: Importance and Complexity

15:45 – 16:15

Coffee break (Ground floor foyer)

16:15 – 16:50

O11

Trygve Helgaker
(Oslo, Norway)

Chair: Sourav Pal
(Pune, India)

 

 

The Calculation of Molecular Properties of Large Systems

16:50 – 17:25

O12

Paul von Rague Schleyer
(Athens, GA, U.S.A.)

Chair: Peter R. Schreiner
(Giessen, Germany)

 

 

Estimating Virtual Quantities: Aromaticity, Strain, Conjugation, Hyperconjugation, and Branching

17:25 – 18:00

O13

Tom Ziegler
(Calgary, Canada)

Chair: Klaus Ruedenberg
(Ames, IA, U.S.A.)

 

 

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory As a Practical Tool in the Study if MCD and CD Spectra of Transition Metal Complexes. Implementations and Applications

18:30 – 21:00

Poster session of conference chairs (Jasmine Room)

 


 

THURSDAY, May 31, 2007

Section: Techniques of MQM (Star Auditorium)

9:00 – 9:20

H2

Nicholas C. Handy
(Cambridge, U.K.)

Chair: Sue M. Colwell
(Cambridge, U.K.)

 

 

DFT and Plane Waves

9:20 – 9:55

O14

Kim Baldridge
(Zürich, Switzerland)

Chair: Sue M. Colwell
(Cambridge, U.K.)

 

 

Structure, Dynamics and Properties of Aromatic Materials Based on Corannulene

9:55 – 10:30

O15

Bernard Brooks
(Bethesda, U.S.A.)

Chair: Weston T. Borden
(Denton, TX, U.S.A.)

 

 

Techniques for Improved Sampling and Free Energies Estimation in Examining Raection Pathways for Macromolecular Systems

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break (Ground floor foyer)

11:00 – 11:35

O16

Gustavo Scuseria
(Houston, TX, U.S.A.)

Chair: Zvonimir Maksic
(Zagreb, Croatia)

 

 

Hybrid Functionals for Solid-State Systems

11:35 – 12:10

O17

Mark S. Gordon
(Ames, IA, U.S.A.)

Chair: Michael E. Colvin
(Merced, CA, U.S.A.)

 

 

Exploring Energy Landscapes: From Coupled Cluster to Model Potentials

12:10 – 12:45

O18

Kimihiko Hirao
(Tokyo, Japan)

Chair: Peter A. Schwerdtfeger
(Auckland, Australia)

 

 

Molecular Theory for Large Systems

12:45 – 14:30

Lunch break (Platan Restaurant)

Section: Electron Correlation (Star Auditorium)

14:30 – 15:05

O19

Wesley D. Allen
(Athens, GA, U.S.A.)

Chair: Jack Simons
(Utah, U.S.A.)

 

 

State-Specific Multireference Coupled Cluster Theories: Chemical Applications of New Production-Level Methods and High-Order Excitation Studies of Model Systems

15:05 – 15:40

O20

Wim Klopper
(Karlsruhe, Germany)

Chair: Miroslav Urban
(Bratislava, Slovakia)

 

 

Quintuple-Zeta Quality Correlation Energies with Triple-Zeta Basis Sets

15:40 – 16:15

O21

Rodney J. Bartlett
(Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.)

Chair: Josef Paldus
(Waterloo, Canada)

 

 

Is There Something Better than CCSD(T) for Molecular Applications?

16:15 – 16:45

Coffee break

16:45 – 17:20

O22

Martin Head-Gordon
(Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.)

Chair: Elfriede Kraka
(Stockton, CA, U.S.A.)

 

 

New Electronic Structure Methods for Large Reactive Radicals and Diradicals

17:20 – 17:55

O23

Jozef Noga
(Bratislava, Slovakia)

Chair: Garnet Chan
(Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.)

 

 

MP2-R12 Versus Dual Basis MP2 Theory

18:30 – 21:00

Poster session (Jasmine Room)

 


 

FRIDAY, June 1, 2007

Section: Structure and Spectroscopy (Star Auditorium)

9:00 – 9:20

H3

Ian M. Mills
(Reading, United Kingdom)

Chair: James E. Boggs
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

 

 

Quantum Chemical Computation of Force Fields and Molecular Spectra

9:20 – 9:55

O24

John F. Stanton
(Austin, Texas, U.S.A.)

Chair: James E. Boggs
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

 

 

NO3: The Molecule without a Structure

9:55 – 10:30

O25

Eric Oldfield
(Urbana-Champaign, IL, U.S.A.)

Chair: Jürgen Gauss
(Mainz, Germany)

 

 

How Peter Pulay Helped Me Become an Applied Quantum Chemist

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break (Ground-floor foyer)

11:00 – 11:35

O26

David C. Clary
(Oxford, U.K.)

Chair: Peter R. Taylor
(Warwick, United Kingdom)

 

 

Quantum Calculations on the Conformations of Biomolecules

11:35 – 12:10

O27

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
(University Park, PA, U.S.A.)

Chair: Miriam Karni
(Haifa, Israel)

 

 

Nuclear-Electronic Orbitals Approach: Including Nuclear Quantum Effects in Electronic Structure Calculations

12:10 – 12:45

O28

Pavel Rosmus
(Marne la Vallée, France)

Chair: Josef Michl
(Boulder, CO, U.S.A.)

 

 

Nuclear Dynamics in Degenerate Electronic States: Spectroscopy and ab Initio Calculations for Pseudorotating B3 and C3+

12:45 – 15:05

Lunch break (Platan Restaurant)

15:05 – 15:40

O29

Werner Kutzelnigg
(Bochum, Germany)

Chair: Pekka Pyykkö
(Helsinki, Finland)

 

 

Which Masses are Vibrating or Rotating in a Molecule?

15:40 – 16:15

O30

Frederick R. Manby
(Bristol, United Kingdom)

Chair: Peter J. Knowles
(Cardiff, United Kingdom)

 

 

Extension of Gas-Phase Methods to Condensed Phase Problems

16:15 – 16:50

O31

Martin Quack
(Zürich, Switzerland)

Chair: Gernot Frenking
(Marburg, Germany)

 

 

Recent Results in Molecular Quantum Chemical Kinetics from Spectroscopy: Symmetry Conservation and Beyond

19:30 – 22:30

Conference banquet – cruise on the Danube

 


 

SATURDAY, June 2, 2007

Section: Dynamics and Reactions (Star Auditorium)

9:00 – 9:20

H4

Gabriel Balint-Kurti
(Bristol, United Kingdom)

Chair: Michael E. Robb
(London, United Kingdom)

 

 

Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Chemistry

9:20 – 9:55

O32

Michele Parrinello
(Zürich, Switzerland)

Chair: Michael E. Robb
(London, United Kingdom)

 

 

Second Generation Car-Parrinello Method

9:55 – 10:30

O33

Hans Lischka
(Vienna, Austria)

Chair: Ron Shepard
(Argonne, IL, U.S.A.)

 

 

Watching the Motion of Molecules in Excited States: From Ethylene to Retinal Models and Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break (Ground floor foyer)

11:00 – 11:35

O34

H. Bernhard Schlegel
(Detroit, MI, U.S.A.)

Chair: Stefan Grimme
(Münster, Germany)

 

 

Exploring Potential Energy Surfaces with ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

11:35 – 12:10

O35

William C. Swope
(San Jose, CA, U.S.A.)

Chair: Jerzy Leszczynski
(Jackson, MS, U.S.A.)

 

 

Protein Folding Studied by Computer Simulation on Blue Gene at IBM

12:10 – 12:45

O36

Hans-Joachim Werner
(Stuttgart, Germany)

Chair: Kenneth Ruud
(Tromsø, Norway)

 

 

The Effect of Local Approximations on the Calculation of Molecular Properties and Reaction Energies

12:45 – 14:30

Lunch break (Platan Restaurant)

Section: Techniques of MQM (Star Auditorium)

14:30 – 15:05

O37

Jan M. L. Martin
(Rehovot, Israel)

Chair: Thom H. Dunning
(Champaign, IL, U.S.A.)

 

 

W4 Theory: Confident Sub-kJ /mol Accuracy Computational Thermochemistry

15:05 – 15:40

O38

Laura Gagliardi
(Geneva, Switzerland)

Chair: Manuel Yáñez
(Madrid, Spain)

 

 

Multiconfigurational Quantum Chemistry for Actinide Containing Systems: From Isolated Molecules to Condensed Phase

15:40 – 16:15

O39

C. David Sherrill
(Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.)

Chair: Anna Krylov
(Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.)

 

 

Hybrid and Macroconfiguration Coupled-Cluster Methods

16:15 – 16:45

Coffee break (Ground floor foyer)

16:45 – 17:20

O40

Troy van Voorhis
(Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.)

Chair: Alejandro Toro-Labbe
(Santiago, Chile)

 

 

Exploring Electronic Structure with Constrained Density Functional Theory

17:20 – 17:55

O41

Ming Wah Wong
(Singapore)

Chair: Kwang S. Kim
(Pohang, Korea)

 

 

π*- π* Interaction in Sulfur and Oxygen Chemistry

17:55 – 18:30

O42

Krzysztof Wolinski
(Lublin, Poland)

Chair: Frank Neese
(Bonn, Germany)

 

 

Geometry Optimization andVibrational Harmonic Frequency Calculations with a Dual Basis Set Approach

18:30 – 21:00

Poster session (Jasmine Room)


 

SUNDAY, June 3, 2007

Section: Techniques of MQM (Star Auditorium)

9:00 – 9:35

O43

István Mayer
(Budapest, Hungary)

Chair: Attila G. Császár
(Budapest, Hungary)

 

 

Energy Partitioning Schemes

9:35 – 10:10

O44

János Ángyán
(Nancy, France)

Chair: Attila G. Császár
(Budapest, Hungary)

 

 

Density Functionals with Range Separation: The DFT Heaven without Jacob’s Ladder

10:10 – 10:45

O45

Ellak von Nagy-Felsobuki
(Callaghan, Australia)

Chair: Attila G. Császár
(Budapest, Hungary)

 

 

Ab Initio Rovibrational Spectrum of BeH22+ Using IC-MRCI Property Surfaces

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee break (Ground floor foyer)

11:15 – 11:50

O46

George Bacskay
(Sydney, Australia)

Chair: Péter G. Szalay
(Budapest, Hungary)

 

 

Quantum Chemical Computations of Spectroscopic Constants, Oscillator Strengths, and Radiative Lifetimes

11: 50 – 12:25

O47

Gyula Tasi
(Szeged, Hungary)

Chair: Péter G. Szalay
(Budapest, Hungary)

 

 

Titles to be announced

12: 25 – 13:00

O48

Peter Pulay
(Fayetteville, AR, U.S.A.)

Chair: Péter G. Szalay
(Budapest, Hungary)

 

 

Large Coupled Cluster Calculations on Inexpensive Parallel Computers: Applications to Weak Interactions

13:00 – 13:10

Closing ceremony (Star Auditorium)

          Géza Fogarasi, conference organizer