Computational Exploration of Energy Landscapes:
Challenges and Solutions

This international symposium, to be held at the ACS National meeting, August 28 - September 1, 2005, in Washington, D.C., will highlight recent fundamental advances in computing potential energy landscapes and their use in problems from small-molecule spectroscopy to large systems of biological interest. Topics include new approaches to nondynamical correlation and bond-breaking reactions, multi-reference methods, nonadiabatic and non-Born-Oppenheimer approaches, potential energy functions of biologically relevant systems, and the study of particularly challenging chemical reactions involving one or more potential energy surfaces.

The symposium will be a 5-day event (nine half-day sessions), and will also include poster sessions (as a subgroup of the Physical Chemistry poster sessions). The deadline for abstract submissions was April 8; the program is now finalized. Invited talks will be 40 minutes long, including 5-10 minutes for discussion. Contributed talks will be 20 minutes long, including 4 minutes for questions.

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