Speakers

A) Invited Speakers

Paul Ayers, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Vincenzo Barone, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Garnet Chan, Princeton University, USA

Daniel T. Crawford, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Alessandro Curioni, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland

Filipp Furche, University of California, Irvine, USA

Paola Gori-Giorgi, Free University (VU) Amsterdam, Netherlands

Robert J. Harrison, ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Trygve Helgaker, University of Oslo, Norway

So Hirata, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Jürg Hutter, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Mihály Kállay, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Wim Klopper, Karlsruher Institute of Technology, Germany

Andreas Köhn, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

Anna Krylov, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Gershom (Jan) Martin, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Frank Neese, Max-Planck Institut, Mühlheim a.d.R, Germany

Jozef Noga, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Marcel Nooijen, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Jeppe Olsen, Aarhus University, Denmark

Ajith Perera, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Piotr Piecuch, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

Peter Pulay, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Italy

Cristina Puzzarini, University of Bologna

Gustavo Scuseria, Rice University, Houston, Texasm USA

David C. Sherrill, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Péter Szalay, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Seiichiro Ten-no, Kobe University, Japan

David Tew, University of Bristol, UK

Troy Van Voorhis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Hans-Joachim Werner, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Tom Ziegler, University of Calgary, Canada

B) Feature Lectures

Evening Session A

Josef Paldus, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Session Chair)

Henry F. Schaefer III, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

Werner Kutzelnigg, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Michele Parrinello, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

Evening Session B

The Role and Perspective of Modeling and Simulation in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research

Moderator:

Peter R. Schreiner (University of Giessen; Editor, Journal of Computational Chemistry / Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIR))

Panelists:

Bart Rijksen (Dow)

Andreas Goeller (Bayer)

Peter Degelmann (BASF)

C) Sessions Chairs

Ludwik Adamowicz, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Kyoung-Koo Baeck,Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangwon-Do, Korea

Maria Barysz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

Chantal Daniel, CNRS/Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

George Fitzgerald, Accelrys, Inc., San Diego, California, USA

Ireneusz Grabowski, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

Ivan Hubac, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Suehiro Iwata, Keio University, Kohoku, Japan 

Stan Kucharski, University of Silesia, Kotowice, Poland

William Laidig, Procter & Gamble, West Chester, Ohio, USA

Leszek Meissner, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

Monika Musial, University of Silesia, Kotowice, Poland

Sourav Pal, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

Jiri Pittner, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Repuglic

Hideo Sekino, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan

Gary Trucks, Gaussian, Inc., Wallingford, Conneticut, USA

Miroslav Urban, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia