Division representatives:
Georg Schreckenbach, University of Manitoba
Josh Hollett, The Univeristy of Winnipeg
Divisional sponsorship:
University of New Brunswick
Symposia and organizers:
Advances in physical, theoretical and computational chemistry
Organizer:
Travis Fridgen, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Biomolecular dynamics: experimental and computational advances - joint with BM
Organizers:
Styliani Consta, Western University
Stacey Wetmore, Lethbridge University
Anthony Mittermaier, McGill University
Mazdak Khajehpour, University of Manitoba
Invited speakers:
Kevin Gardner, City University New York
John Dutcher, University of Guelph
Joerg Gsponer, University of British Columbia
Liz Meiering, University of Waterloo
Anna Panchenko, Queen's University
Chris Thibodeaux, McGill University
Natalie Goto, University of Ottawa
Chirality and spectroscopy
Organizers:
Takamasa Momose, The University of British Columbia
Yunjie Xu, University of Alberta
Wolfgang Jager, University of Alberta
Invited speakers:
Ilya Averbukh, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Thomas Baumert, University of Kassel, Germany
David Bryce, University of Ottawa
James Cheeseman, Gaussian, USA
Peter McBreen, Unitersité Laval
Jean-Michel Nunzi, Queens University
Yasuhiro Ohshima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Comparing theory and experiment in spectroscopy (in honour of Li Hong Xu)
Organizers:
Tucker Carrington, Queen's University
Yujun Shi, University of Calgary
Jennifer van Wijngaarden, University of Manitoba
Invited speakers:
Isabelle Kleiner, CNRS, Université UPEC et Université de Paris, France
Stephan Schlemmer, University of Cologne, Germany
Ron Lees, University of New Brunswick
Yunjie Xu, University of Alberta
Tucker Carrington, Queen's University
David Perry, The University of Akron, USA
Symposium Sponsor:
Canadian Association of Theoretical Chemists (CATC)
Computational catalysis
Organizer:
Samira Siahrostami, University of Calgary
Invited speakers:
Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
Tom Woo, University of Ottawa
Sergey Gusarov, National Institute for Nanotechnology
Alex Voznyy, University of Toronto Scarborough
Ali Seifitokaldani, McGill University
Hongliang Xin, University of Virginia Tech, USA
Michal Badjich, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, USA
Sathish Ponnurangam, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary
Computational protein engineering
Organizer:
Eric Bushnell, Brandon University
Invited speakers:
Roberto Chica, University of Ottawa
Srivatsan Raman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Cody Krivacic, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Ketaki Belsare, University of California, San Francisco, USA
New horizons in electronic structure theory
Organizers:
Stijn De Baerdemacker, University of New Brunswick
Nike Dattani
Invited speakers:
Eric Neuscamman, UC Berkeley, USA
Sandeep Sharma, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Pawel Tecmer, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Jay Gambetta, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Tom Anderson, Rice University, USA
Protein-ligand interactions: theory meets the experiment
Organizers:
Sergei Noskov, University of Calgary
Lei Shi, National Institutes of Health
Invited speakers:
Jianhan Chen, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Ratmir Dedra, University of Alberta
Darren Derksen, University of Calgary
Justin MacCallum, University of Calgary
David Minh, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Leonardo Pardo, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Benoit Roux, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Matthieu Schapira, University of Toronto
Yibing Shan, D.E. Shaw Research, USA
Thomas Stockner, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Suzana Straus, The University of British Columbia
Pei Tang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Peter Tieleman, University of Calgary
Lingle Wang, Schrodinger Inc., USA
Yibo Wang, CIAC, Chinese Academy of Science
Quantum computing for quantum chemistry
Organizers:
Artur Izmaylov, University of Toronto
Alán Aspuru-Guzik, University of Toronto
Invited speakers:
Paul Ayers, McMaster University
Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers, Zapata Computing
Sophia Economou, Virginia Tech, USA
Francesco Evangelista, Emory University, USA
Abhinav Kandala, IBM, USA
Peter Love, Tufts University, USA
Nicholas Mayhall, Virginia Tech, USA
Marcel Nooijen, University of Waterloo
Julia Rice, IBM, USA
Jonathan Romero, Harvard University , USA
Nick Rubin, Google, USA
Ilya Ryabinkin, OTI Lumionics
Gustavo Scuseria, Rice University, USA
Ivano Tavernelli, IBM, Switzerland
Solid-state NMR symposium in honour of Roderick E. Wasylishen - joint with IN
Organizers:
Scott Kroeker, University of Manitoba
David Bryce, University of Ottawa
Invited speakers:
Roderick Wasylishen, University of Alberta
Jean-Paul Amoureux, Université de Lille, France
Cynthia Jameson, University of Illinois, USA
Tatyana Polenova, University of Delaware, USA
Marek Pruski, Ames Laboratory, USA
Thomas Vosegaard, Aarhus University, Denmark
Surface-enhanced or surface-sensitive spectroscopy - joint with AN/SS
Organizers:
Ian Burgess, University of Saskatchewan
Francois Lagugné-Laberthet, Western University