Program
Lecturers and topics
Prof. Wim Briels (TU-Twente) | Relativity and gravitation (5 hours) |
Prof. Luuk Visscher (VU) | Diracs equation and other prerequisites for achieving high accuracy in quantum chemistry (5 hours) |
Prof. Claudia Filippi (TU-Twente) | Solving the Schrödinger equation with random walks: Introduction to quantum Monte Carlo methods (5 hours) |
Prof. Marloes Groot (VU) | Spectroscopy on photoactive proteins (5 hours) |
Dr. Bernd Ensing (UvA) | Electrochemistry and simulation of charge transfer reactions (4 hours) |
Agenda
Schedule: | Monday 12 Dec (first lecture starts at 17:00) |
Friday 16 Dec
(last lecture ends at 13:00, depart after lunch) |
Program
The first lecture will start on Monday at 17:00. The last lecture ends at 13:00 on Friday, we depart after lunch.
9:00-11:00 | 11:00-13:00 | 17:00-19:00 | 20:45-22:00 | |
Monday |   |   | Briels | Presentations I |
Tuesday | Briels | Filippi | Visscher | Presentations II |
Wednesday | Briels/Visscher | Filippi | Groot | Presentations III |
Thursday | Groot | Groot/Filippi | Ensing | Excercises |
Friday | Ensing | Visscher | departure after lunch |   |
Student presentations I (Monday)
- 20:45 - 21:05
-
Friction at the atomic scale, an approach with the Frenkel-Kontorova model
Joost van den Ende, Annalisa Fasolino and Astrid de Wijn - 21:10 - 21:30
- Molecular surface diffusion on interstellar dust grains
L.J. Karssemeijer and H.M. Cuppen - 21:35 - 21:55
- Catalytic Methane Activation by d10 Transition Metal Complexes
Lando P. Wolters and F. Matthias Bickelhaupt
Student presentations II (Tuesday)
- 20:45 - 21:05
- A new simulation technique to compute the mechanism and free energy landscape for complex reactions
Grisell Diaz Leines and Bernd Ensing - 21:10 - 21:30
- Van der Waals interaction in DMFT
Lukasz Mentel and Evert Jan Baerends - 21:35 - 21:55
- Towards an active site mimic of F0F1-ATPase: Proton transfer from glutamic acid to arginine
Sander Jaeqx and Anouk M. Rijs
Student presentations III (Wednesday)
- 20:45 - 21:05
- Evolution of magnetic and NLO properties in large (anti)aromatic open-shell systems
Raphaël Carion and Benoît Champagne - 21:10 - 21:30
- Full CI Quantum Monte Carlo
Csaba Daday, Claudia Filippi and Ali Alavi - 21:35 - 21:55
- An extention of the Hirshfeld method to open shell systems
using fractional occupations
Davy Geldof and C. Van Alsenoy