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Program

9:00

10:00

Registration

10:00 10:30

Opening session

Session 1

Chairperson: A. Lledos

10:30 11:30

PL1: Mechanism and Promiscuity of Isochorismate Pyruvate Lyase.

J. Bertrán

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

 

11:30 12:00

Coffee break

Session 2

Chairperson: M. Moreno

12:00 13:00

PL2: Towards Infinity... and Beyond. Chiral Aromaticities - the Fusion of Scientific Ideas Spanning 315 years.

S. Rzepa

Imperial Collage London, United Kingdom

 

13:00 15:00

Lunch

Session 3

Chairperson: X. Gimenez

15:00 -16:00

PL3: Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Infectious Diseases.

J. A. McCammon

University of California (San Diego), USA

 

16:00 16:30

SC1: Structural plasticity and ligand migration in globins.

F.J. Luque

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

 

16:30 17:00

Coffee break

Session 4

Chairperson: F. Maseras

17:00 17:30

SC2: The Mechanism of the Hydride Transfer between Anabaena Tyr303Ser FNRrd/FNRox and NADP+/H. A Combined Pre-Steady-State Kinetic/Ensemble-Averaged Transition State Theory with Multidimensional Tunneling Study.

A. González-Lafont

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

17:30 18:00

SC3: Identification of Specific Interactions in Complexes formed by DNA and Conducting Polymers

C. Aleman

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

19:30

Welcome Reception
(Institut d'Estudis Catalans, c/ Carme, 47)

 

 

30 June

Session 5

Chairperson: N. López

9: 00

10:00

PL4: The ever-surprising boron (and beryllium) chemistry. Unexpected structures and unexpected reactivity.

M. Yañez

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

 

10:00 11:00

PL5: Molecules with Unusiual Bondings Situations - A Challenge for Theory and Experiment

G. Frenking

Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

 

11:00 11:30

coffee break

Session 6

Chairperson: J. M. Poblet

11:30 12:30

PL6: Time-independent and time-dependent approaches to computational spectroscopy

V. Barone

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa , Italy

 

12:30

13:00

SC4: The Peierls distortion in uniform zigzag or linear metal chains.

P.  Alemany

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

 

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch

Session 7

Chairperson: C. Rovira

15:00 16:00

PL7: Cytochrome P450 - What a Wonderful Catalysts it is.

S. Shaik

Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Israel

 

16:00 16:30

SC5: Giant Polyoxometalates

C. Bo

Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain

 

16:30 17:00

Coffee break

17:00 18:30

Poster session

 

 

1 july

Session 8

Chairperson: A. Oliva

9:00

10:00

PL8: Green chemistry: new challenges for theoretical research.

M. Ruíz-López

Université Henry-Poincaré (Nancy), France

 

10:0011:00

PL9: Computational methods for modeling reactivity in large molecules

W. Thiel

Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung Mülheim and der Rur, Germany

 

11:00 11:30

Coffee break

Session 9

Chairperson: R. Sayós

11:30

12:30

PL10:  The Structure and Reactivity of Radical-Molecule Complexes: A New Frontier in Atmospheric Chemistry.

J. S. Francisco

Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana), USA

12:30 13:00

SC6: Second-order analysis of conical intersections: Applications to photochemistry and photophysics of organic molecules.

Ll. Blancafort

Universitat de Girona, Spain

 

13:00 15:00

Lunch

Session 10

Chairperson:  M. Duran

15:00 16:00

PL11: Efficient atomic simulation of solvent effects.

P. Pulay

University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), USA

 

17:30

Guided visit

 

 

2 July

Session 11

Chairperson: M. Reguero

9:00

10:00

PL12: Singlet-Triplet Coupling in Organic Chromophores

C. M. Marian

Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany

 

10:00 11:00

PL13: What is local, what is global in the ground state properties of delocalized systems? New insights on aromaticity.

J. P. Malrieu

Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

 

11:00 11:30

Coffee break

Session 12

Chairperson: M. Solà

11:30

12:30

PL14: Reactions of O2 and N2O with Mono- and Polynuclear Supported Metal Complexes.

C. Cramer

University of Minnesota, USA

 

12:30 13:00

SC7: Bullx: the world’s first supercomputer designed for Unlimited Innovation and Extreme Computing

O. de Bustos Martín
Bull, HPC Line of Business Manager

 

13:00 15:00

Lunch

Session 13

Chairperson: J. Novoa

15:00 16:00

PL15:  Tailoring of surface chemical properties using electronic structure theory

J. K. Norskov

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

 

16:00 16:30

SC8: Light-Induced Excited-State Spin Trapping in Fe(II) Spin Crossover Systems

C. Sousa

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

 

16:30 17:00

Coffee break

Session 14

Chairperson: F. Huarte

17:00 17:30

SC9: A STATISTICAL-MECHANICS APPROACH TO STUDY ION BINDING TO CHARGED COLLOIDS

F. Mas

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

 

17:30 18:00

SC10: Amphiphilic Organic Crystals: L-Alanine

E. R. Hernández

ICMAB-CSIC, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

 

20:30

Dinner
(Rest. La Miranda del Museu, Museu d'Historia de Catalunya, Pl. Pau Vila)

 

 

3 July

Session 15

Chairperson: M. Orozco

9:30

10:30

PL16: Anion-&pi interactions in Supramolecular Chemistry: Theoretical Investigations.

P. Deyà

Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

 

10:30 11:00

SC11: INTERACTION OF BIOMOLECULES WITH SILICA BASED MATERIALS.

M. Sodupe

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

 

11:00

11:30

coffee break

Session 16

Chairperson: S. Alvarez

11:30 12:30

PL17: The Use of Newton Trajectories in Theoretical Chemistry.

W. Quapp

University of Leipzig, Germany

 

12:30

13:00

CS:  Closing session.

R. Caballol

Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain