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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
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Sixteenth International Workshop
QUANTUM SYSTEMS IN CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
September 11-17, 2011
Ishikawa Prefecture Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
http://qscp16.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Honorary Chair: Shigeyuki Aono (Funabashi, Japan)
Chair: Kiyoshi Nishikawa (Kanazawa, Japan)
Cochair: Jean Maruani (Paris, France)
Coordinating Chair: Erkki Brändas (Uppsala, Sweden)
This workshop, like the previous QSCP meetings, will bring together chemists
and physicists interested in quantum systems in molecular, nano and material
sciences. Quantum biochemists and biophysicists are welcome to participate.
Emphasis will be on many-body methods, innovative theory, computational
realization, and applications.
The Workshop will include sessions on:
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Concepts and Methods in Quantum Chemistry (CMQC)
Molecular Structure, Dynamics, and Spectroscopy (MSDS)
Atoms and Molecules in Strong Electric and Magnetic Fields (AMSF)
Condensed Matter; Complexes and Clusters; Surfaces and Interfaces (CCSI)
Molecular and Nano Materials, Electronics and Biology (MNEB)
Reactive Collisions and Chemical Reactions (RCCR)
Computational Chemistry, Physics and Biology (CCPB)
The Proceedings of the Workshop are expected to be published in Progress
in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics (Springer). Please let us know if you
wish to attend by e-mailing to: kiyoshi@wriron1.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp, with
a copy to: jean.maruani@upmc.fr.
--------You may register on-line through the following link (fee payment and
abstract submission can be made at a later date):
http://qscp16.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
--------Overseas participants may like to combine their coming to the QSCP-XVI
workshop in Kanazawa, Japan, with the ISTCP-VII congress organized by Pr
Hiromi Nakai at Waseda University, Tokyo, between September 2 and 8, 2011:
http://www.chem.waseda.ac.jp/nakai/istcp7/index.shtml, which will very
conveniently take place shortly before the QSCP-XVI workshop.
--------Honorary Committee:
Rodney J. Bartlett (Gainesville, FL, USA)
Gerard Ferey (Versailles, France)
Kimihiko Hirao (Riken, Japan)
Janos Ladik (Erlangen, Germany)
Roy McWeeny (Pisa, Italy)
Hiroshi Nakatsuji (QCRI, Japan)
Josef Paldus (Waterloo, ON, Canada)
Michael A. Whitehead (Montreal, PQ, Canada)
International Scientific Committee:
Jean Maruani, Chair (Paris, France)
Vincenzo Aquilanti (Perugia, Italy)
Erkki Brändas (Uppsala, Sweden)
Gerardo Delgado-Barrio (Madrid, Spain)
Eugene Kryachko (Kiev, Ukraine)
Souad Lahmar (Carthage, Tunisia)
Aristides Mavridis (Athens, Greece)
Nimrod Moiseyev (Haifa, Israel)
Debashis Mukherjee (Calcutta, India)
Kiyoshi Nishikawa (Kanazawa, Japan)
Piotr Piecuch (Lansing, MI, USA)
Enrico Purisima (Montreal, PQ, Canada)
Oleg Vasyutinskii (St Petersburg, Russia)
Yan Alexander Wang (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Angela Wilson (Denton, TX, USA)
Local Organizing Committee:
Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Chair (Kanazawa University)
Hidemi Nagao, Co-chair (Kanazawa University)
Kazunaka Endo (Tokyo University of Science)
Junya Hasegawa (Kyoto University)
Tsuyoshi Kato (University of Tokyo)
Jun Kawai (Kyoto University)
Hirohiko Kono (Tohoku University)
Hiromi Nakai (Waseda University in Tokyo)
Masayoshi Nakano (Osaka University)
Tatsuki Oda (Kanazawa University)
Mitsutaka Okumura (Osaka University)
Hiroaki Saito (Kanazawa University)
Mineo Saito (Kanazawa University)
-----The Workshop will be held at Ishikawa Prefecture Museum of Art (IPMA),
Kanazawa, Japan: http://www.ishibi.pref.ishikawa.jp/english/index.html.
The predecessor of this museum (Ishikawa Prefecture Museum) was opened in
October, 1959, as one of the oldest regional museums in Japan. In 1983, the
new museum (IPMA) was built on the same location.
QSQP-XVI will last for six days, from September 11 to 17, 2011. Please
mark up your calendars.
Kanazawa is located in the central part of the mainland of Japan. The
southeast of the city faces the mountains and the northwest faces the Sea
of Japan. It was a great castle town ruled by an influential leader from
the 17th century through the 19th century. Kanazawa has maintained rows of
historical houses and inherited traditional crafts and arts.
IPMA is located in the cultural heart of Kanazawa and can be accessed
by a 15-minute walk from downtown Kanazawa. There are many other cultural
and historical museums around IPMA, such as Ishikawa Prefecture Noh Theater,
Ishikawa-Ken History Museum, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, etc.
It is neighbouring on Kenrokuen Garden, one of three most beautiful gardens
in Japan.
IPMA was intended to display fine arts and traditional crafts from
Ishikawa Prefecture, including feudal Daimyo ustensils using the Kaga Makie
technique and a huge range of Kutani porcelain collection - from Old Kutani
to Reestablished Kutani. IPMA collections include one National Treasure and
four Important Cultural Properties in its permanent exhibition halls.
The conference venue will be split into the IPMA (talks) and the very
close Shiinoki cultural complex (posters). The main accommodation place
will be Excel Hotel Tokyu in the centre of downtown, where the banquet will
take place. Attendees can select their hotel according to their budget. The
Excel Hotel Tokyu and more economical hotels will be listed on the home page
of the Workshop.
Kanazawa has many seafood restaurants and also foreign restaurants
(Chinese, French, Italian, etc.) around Excel Hotel Tokyu. While lunch will
be served in the neighbouring IPMA annex, participants may enjoy dinner in
Kanazawa according to their favourite taste.
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As during most QSCP workshops since Sofia (Bulgaria) and also at the
ICTCP-IV Congress in Marly-le-Roi (France), there will be an AWARD CEREMONY
for the Promising Scientist Prize of CMOA at the Banquet Dinner of QSCP-XV.
If you wish to APPLY or NOMINATE a young scientist please consult our web
site: www.lcpmr.upmc.fr/prize.html, and send the application or nomination
before July 16 to Prof. Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Chair of the QSCP-XVI workshop
(kiyoshi@wriron1.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp), with copies to Prof. Jean Maruani,
President of CMOA (jemmaran@gmail.com), and to Prof. Erkki Brändas, Chair
of the Selection Committee (Erkki@kvac.uu.se).
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Attendance rates include free use of the facilities of the Workshop
premises, coffee breaks, lunch for six days, a booklet of abstracts, a copy
of the proceedings (with a 75% discount on the market price), and a social
programme involving a guided tour, a Japanese drum performance and a banquet
dinner with the award ceremony.
Medical, accident and liability insurance is not included in the
registration fees. QSCP participants should make it sure they are fully
insured from their home institution.
Early-bird registrants (payment made before March 1st, 2011):
- Normal: 59,000 Yen (about 730 $ or 520 E).
- Students: 50,000 Yen (about 620 $ or 440 E).
- Accompanying persons: 31,000 Yen (about 382 $ or 274 E).
Regular registrants (payment made before July 15, 2011):
- Normal: 65,000 Yen (about 800 $ or 580 E).
- Students: 55,000 Yen (about 680 $ or 490 E).
- Accompanying persons: 31,000 Yen (about 382 $ or 274 E).
Late registrants (payment made after July 15, 2011) will pay a
surcharge of 8% on the regular registrants rates.
Payment should be made preferably by money transfer to the account
(please request that transfer fees be charged to the sender):
Bank name: The Hokuriku Bank, Ltd.
Bank address: Kanazawa, Japan
Account holder: QSCP-XVI NISHIKAWA KIYOSHI
Account number: 0144-308-5056810
Swift code: RIKB JP JT
--------------NEWS OF PREVIOUS QSCP WORKSHOPS
Previous QSCP workshops were held in [or near] Pisa [San Miniato] (1996),
Oxford (1997), Granada (1998), Paris [Marly-le-Roi] (1999), Uppsala (2000),
Sofia (2001), Bratislava [Casta Paprinicka] (2002), Athens [Spetses]
(2003), Grenoble [Les Houches] (2004), Carthage (2005), St Petersburg
[Pushkin] (2006), Windsor [Royal Holloway] (2007), Lansing [MSU, USA]
(2008), Madrid [El Escorial] (2009), and Cambridge (2010). Details of the
proceedings of the most recent meetings are given below.
--------------PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on "Quantum Systems in Chemistry
and Physics" (Cambridge, England) will be published in PTCP by September
2011. The deadline for submitting manuscripts has been set as November 30,
2010, for regular and review papers: http://qscp-xv.ensicaen.fr/index.php.
For any difficulty to meet the deadline please send an e-mail to the main
editor, Philip Hoggan: pehoggan@yahoo.com, with a copy to the series editor,
Jean Maruani: marjema@wanadoo.fr.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on "Quantum Systems in Chemistry
and Physics" (El Escorial, Spain) will appear in I.J.Q.C., vol. 111 (2) pp.
not yet available (2011).
--------------PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTEENTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on "Quantum Systems in Chemistry
and Physics" (Lansing, MI, USA) have appeared as volumes 19 and 20 of
P.T.C.P. (750 pages in total) in October 2009:
http://www.springer.com/chemistry/book/978-90-481-2595-1
http://www.springer.com/chemistry/book/978-90-481-2984-3
--------------PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on "Quantum Systems in Chemistry
and Physics" (Windsor, England) have appeared as vol. 18
(600 p.) of P.T.C.P. (2008):
http://www.springer.com/chemistry/book/978-1-4020-8706-6
--------------PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on "Quantum Systems in Chemistry
and Physics" (St Petersburg, Russia) have appeared in I.J.Q.C., vol. 107
(14), pp. 2565-2985 (2007).
--------------PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on "Quantum Systems in Chemistry and
Physics" (Carthage, Tunisia) have appeared as vol. 16 (300 p.) of P.T.C.P.
(2007):
http://www.springer.com/chemistry/physical/book/978-1-4020-5459-4
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