V.A. Fock Meeting on Quantum and Computational Chemistry

Vladivostok
Primorsky Krai, RUSSIA
19.6 - 24.6 2015

Dear colleagues!

We are very pleased to invite you to take part in the 15-th Session of the V.A. Fock Meeting on Quantum and Computational Chemistry, which will be held 19.6 - 24.6 2015 in the Far Eastern Federal Universtity in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, RUSSIA.

This session is organized by the Far Eastern Federal Universtity and the Institute of Chemistry of the Far Eastern Branch of RAS in collaboration with the Fock Meeting on Quantum and Computational Chemistry.

The scientific specialization of the Meeting:
The application of modern concepts and computational methods of quantum chemistry to study of chemical, physical and biological problems.

International Organizing Committee for the Meeting:

V.V. Lunin (MSU); A.L. Buchachenko (MSU); V.I. Sergienko (FEB RAS); V.I. Minkin (IPOC RSU); V.V. Tartakovsky (IOC RAS); A.A. Berlin (ICP RAS); I.V. Abarenkov (SPbSU); R. Dronskowski (RWTH); F. Illas (IQTCUB); P.G. Szalay (Eötvös University); A.L. Tchougreeff (RWTH - Aachen Universtity/MSU/MCCME); A.Y. Ustinov (FEFU/IC FEB RAS).

Advisory Board for the Meeting:

A.L. Buchachenko (ICP RAS - chairman); I.B. Bersuker (Moldavian Academy of Science/Texas A&M University); R. Hoffmann (Cornell University); R.A. Evarestov (SPbSU - vice chairman) G.M. Zhidomirov (MSU - vice chairman); P. Alemany (Universidad Barcelona); F. Illas (IQTCUB); R. McWeeny (University of Pisa); R.R. Nazmutdinov (KSTU); R.M. Minyaev (IPOC SFU); G. Naray-Szabo (Eötvös University); P.N. Dyachkov (IGIC RAS); A. Savin (P&M Curie Université Sorbonne); P. Fulde (MPIPKS Dresden); W. Thiel (MPI Muelheim); J.-P. Piquemal (P&M Curie Université Sorbonne); V.I. Pupyshev (MSU); A.L. Tchougreeff (RWTH - Aachen Universtity/MSU/MCCME); A.Y. Ustinov (FEFU/IC FEB RAS); A.Y. Zakharov (NovSU).

Local Organizing Committee for the Meeting:

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The program of the Meeting includes invited lectures, oral presentations, poster session, subject discussions, round tables, electronic poster session, and software demonstrations. Some lectures will be delivered by leading experimentalists.

The list of the speakers is still open and the final program will be settled after receiving and analyzing the requests of the participants registered in the Information System.
The Meeting is open to all bona fide scientists irrespective to gender, race, religion, ethnic orgin, nationality and whatsoever.

So far confirmed participants are:

• Prof Pere Alemany, Departament de Química Física and Institut de Química Teórica i Computacional, U, Spain
  Analyzing the Interplay Between Local and Global Symmetries in molecular chemistry
• Prof. Xavier Assfeld, Chimie theorique Universite Henri Poincare, France
  Tackling Electronic Excited States in Complex Surroundings.
• Prof. Alexander Bagaturyants, Photochemistry Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
  
• Dr Elena Bichoutskaia, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK
  Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges in Electrostatics
• Dr Hélène Bolvin, IRSAMC-CNRS, France
  Magnetic properties of actinide complexes : a theoretical approach
• Prof. (HB) Broer, Theoretical Chemistry, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Netherlands
  Local Approach to Isotropic and Anisotropic Magnetic Interactions in Copper Oxides
• Dr Lyubov Bulusheva, Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, SB RAS, Russia
  Electron transitions in rippled and twisted graphenes
• Dr Claude Daul, Lab of Computational Chemistry Department of Chemistry University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Non-empirical prediction of the photophysical and magnetic properties of systems with open d- and f-shells based on combined Ligand Field and Density Functional Theory (LFDFT)
• Prof. Richard Dronskowski, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  A chemical (bonding) perspective on phase-change and related materials
• Dr Elena Golubeva, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
  
• Dr Eduard Matito, Donosti Institute Physics Center and Department of Chemistry. Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EH, Spain
  New Measures of Dynamic Electron Correlation in Terms of Natural Orbitals and Their Occupancies
• Prof. Boris Minaev, Bohdan Khmelnitskij National University, Ukraine
  DFT design of new materials for molecular electronics
• Prof. Taku Onishi, Department of Chemistry for Materials, Mie University, Japan
  Chemical Bonding Analysis and Materials Design for Energy-Related Materials
• Prof. Gerhard Raabe, Institut für Organische Chemie RWTH Aachen University , Germany
  Quantum-Chemical ab initio Calculations on Ala- (C₅H₅Al) and Gallabenzene (C₅H₅Ga)
• Prof W. H. SCHWARZ, Theoretical Chemistry, University Siegen and Tsinghua University Beijing, Germany
  Chemical Aspects of the Actinoid Series
• Mr Leonid Skripnikov, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia
  What relativistic quantum chemistry can give to the search for a new physics?
• Dr Andrei Tchougreeff, Chemistry Department, MSU, Russia
  Effective Hamiltonian Crystal Field: Present Status and Applications
• Dr Anatoly Titov, B.P.Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia
  Concepts of effective states of atoms in chemical substance and fundamentals of core pseudopotential theories
• Prof. Alexander Ustinov, Far Eastern Federal University, Russia
  Plasma electrolytic oxidized coatings on aluminum and titanium: composition, structure, properties

Important dates
The deadline of abstract submissions: 19.4 2015.
The deadline of receiveng the registeration fee: 19.5 2015.
The deadline for registeration of the participants who need the visa: 19.03.2015.
Arrival: People arriving at the Vladivostok International Airport (VVO) should communicate their arrival time and flight to the local organizers at all_vl@mail.ru in order to organize shuttle buses.

Accomodation will be provided on the Far Eastern Federal Universtity campus on the Russkiy Island.

Visas. Information on visas is available on the web page. The citizens of the following countries do not need visa to come to Russia: Azerbaijan, Argentina, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Fiji, Guatemala, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Peru, Serbia, South Korea, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela. To obtain the invitation for a visa (so called, visa support) it is necessary to fill in the visa support form and send it to the Secretary of the local Organizing Committee at all_vl@mail.ru together with a copy (pdf) of the "first" page of your travel passport (one with photo, number, issue and expiration date etc). Before filling out the form please consult at your travel agent or visa centrum or at the Russian Embassy/Consulate in your Country to which Consular District - specific Consulate - your visa application is going to be lodged and fill in this information in the second row of the form (just above PERSONAL DETAILS)

Fees. Organization fee is equivalent of EURO 300 for academic participants and EURO 150 for students paid in a convenient currency.

Participants from industry will be asked to pay a registration fee in equivalent of EURO 500 or better to have their companies make a more substantial contribution to the Meeting with appropriate recognition in the program, publications, and at our WWW site.

Fee includes

• Attendance to all Meeting scientific sessions including those of the H. Hellmann Symposium on Theoretical and Quantum chemistry.
• Meeting material (documentation & Meeting program).
• Certificate of attendance and/or participation.
• Coffee-breaks.
• Welcome reception on 19.6.2015.
• Cultural Activity.
• Meeting dinner.

The form of payment:
USD:
To be paid in cash on the spot.
EUR:
To be paid in cash on the spot.

Important update! The above fixed amount of the fee paid in hard currency on the spot unfortunately cannot cover the lodging on the campus because of the drastic (more than 30% since the original Announcement) growth of the Rouble against hard currencies. Additional payment options are communicated to you on the abstract submission confirmation page and under the Support link in the Information System.

RUR: Please consult the Russian version of the page.

Venue. The opening of the Meeting and all its sessions will take place in the Far Eastern Federal Universtity. Information on how to reach the location of the conference is available here.

Working language of the Meeting is English.

Participation. In order to take part in the Meeting, first register in the Meeting Information System by filling out the electronic form. The electronic registeration is free.

In order to submit your contribution prepare it, first, in the HTML format (only one contribution per registered participant is allowed). Then upload your it through the Information System. Follow the " Submit " link. Instructions are given on the abstract submission page. The deadline of the abstract submission is 19.4.2015. To browse the submitted contributions enter the System by clicking here and follow the "Browse " link. A submission is considered valid (e.g. is considered by the referees for definitively assigning the format of your contribution or appears in the "Browse " list after paying the registration fee).

All information concerning the Meeting is located at the URL: http://qcc.ru/~fock/.

We are glad to welcome you in Vladivostok.

Last-modified: 17:16:38 23.03.2015