Physical, Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry Division
Divisional
Representative: Kalai
Saravanamuttu, McMaster
University
PT1/MT1
Applications of Synchrotron Techniques in Materials
Chemistry (joint with
MT)
Organizer: Adam Hitchcock, McMaster University
Confirmed
invited speakers:
John Tse, University of Saskatchewan
Stephen Urquhart, University of Saskatchewan
PT2/
MS1/MT2 Applications of Synchrotron Techniques in Polymer Chemistry (joint with
MS and MT)
Organizers: Adam Hitchcock, McMaster University and Christian Pellerin, Université de Montréal
Confirmed
invited speakers:
Christian Burger, Stony Brook University
Michel Pézolet, Université Laval
PT3 Atoms in Molecules
Organizers: Paul Ayers, McMaster University and Chérif Matta,
Mount Saint Vincent University
This symposium is supported by
Chemical Computing
Group, Mount Saint Vincent University and SHARCNET.
Confirmed
invited speakers:
James Anderson, McMaster University
Richard Bader, McMaster University
André Bandrauk, Université de Sherbrooke
Russell Boyd, Dalhousie University
Friedrich
Biegler-König, Fachhochschule Bielefeld
Benoit Braida, Université Pierre et Marie
Curie (Paris 6)
Patrick Bultnick, Universiteit Gent
Andrés Cedillo, Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana, Unidad Itzapalapa
Fernando Cortés Guzmán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de Mexico
Frank De Proft, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Kelling Donald, University of Richmond
Louis Farrugia, University of Glasgow
Patrick Fowler, University of Sheffield
José Luis Gázquez, Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana, Unidad Itzapalapa
Paul Geerlings, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Kathleen Gough, University of Manitoba
Jesús
Hernández-Trujillo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
Mexico
Samantha Jenkins, Högskolan Väst
Erin Johnson, Duke University
Todd Keith, Semichem, Inc.
Claude Lecomte, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1
Creon Levit, NASA-Ames
Preston Macdougall, Middle Tennessee State University
Ángel Martín Pendás, Universidad de Oviedo
Louis Massa, Hunter College
Junia Melin, Auburn University
Vincent
Ortiz, Auburn University
Paul
Popelier, University of Manchester
Klaus Ruedenberg, Iowa State University
Andreas Savin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6)
Akitomo Tachibana, Kyoto University
Nick Werstiuk, McMaster University
Krzysztof Wozniak, Uniwersytet Warszawski
PT4/BM2 Biomolecular NMR(joint with BM)
Organizer: Giuseppe Melacini, McMaster University
This symposium is supported by Bruker Canada, Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc., the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids, New Era Enterprises, Inc., Sigma-Aldrich Canada and Varian.
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Michèle Auger, Université Laval
David Boehr,
The Pennsylvania State University
Kalle Gehring, McGill University
Steffen Graether, University of Guelph
Mitsu
Ikura, University of Toronto
Vladimir
Ladizhansky, University of Guelph
Anthony Mittermaier, McGill University
Ayyalusamy
Ramamoorthy, University of Michigan
Simon
Sharpe, University of Toronto
Leo Spyracopoulos, University of Alberta
Peter
Stathopulos, University of Toronto
PT5/MT3 Energy Storage and Conversion (joint with MT)
Organizers: Gillian Goward, McMaster University and Linda Nazar,
University of Waterloo
This symposium is supported by the
ACS Petroleum Research Fund.
Confirmed
invited speakers:
Heather Andreas, Dalhousie University
Daniel Bélanger, Université du Québec à Montréal
Bradley Easton,
UOIT
Dominique Larcher, Université de Picardie Jules Verne
V.
Thangadurai, University of Calgary
Marnix Wagemaker, Technische Universiteit Delft
PT6/MT4 Frontiers in Materials Characterization with X-Rays,
Neutrons and Electrons (joint with
MT)
Organizers: James Britten and Gianliugi Botton,
McMaster University and Lachlan Cranswick, Canada Neutron Beam Centre
This symposium is supported by the
Canadian Centre for
Electron Microscopy.
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Albina Borisevich,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Seán
Cadogan, University of Manitoba
Joanne Etheridge, Monash University
Young-June
Kim, University of Toronto
Chunlin
Jia, Forschungszentrum Jülich
De-Tong Jiang,
University of Guelph
Anthony
Petric, McMaster University
Wolfgang
Scherer, Universität Augsburg
Mark Sutton,
McGill University
PT7 Materials and Magnetic Resonance
Organizers: Gillian Goward and Alex Bain, McMaster
University
This symposium is supported by the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, Bruker Canada, Eli Lilly Canada Inc.and the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids.
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Sharon
Ashbrook, University of St
Andrews
Bruce Balcom, University of New Brunswick
David Bryce, University of Ottawa
Hans Spiess, Max Planck Institute for Polymer
Research
Roderick
Wasylishen, University of
Alberta
PT8/SS2 Nanostructured Surfaces - Surfaces of
Nanostructures (joint with
SS)
Organizers: Byron Gates, Simon Fraser University and Matthias Geissler, Industrial Materials Institute
This symposium is supported by
Asylum
Research, Gamble Technologies Limited, Heidelberg Instruments, the Kurt J. Lesker
Company, Raith and Systems for Research.
Confirmed
invited speakers:
Christopher Murray, University of Pennsylvania
Pavle Radovanovic, University of Waterloo
Edmund
Seebauer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PT9/AN5 New Advances in Spectroscopy and Microscopy (joint with AN)
Organizers: Glynis de
Silveira, McMaster University and François
Lagugné-Labarthet, The University of Western
Ontario
This symposium is supported by Altos Photonics, Inc., Harvard Apparatus Canada, HORIBA Jobin Yvon and Thorlabs.
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Alex Adronov, McMaster University
Dennis Hore,
University of Victoria
Hans-Peter Loock, Queens University, W.A.E. McBryde Award Lecture
Jean-François Masson, Université de Montréal
Christopher Weisener, University of Windsor
Paul
Wiseman, McGill University, Keith Laidler Award Lecture
PT10 Quantum Chemical Dynamics
Organizers: Randall Dumont, McMaster University and Ian Hamilton, Wilfrid
Laurier University
Confirmed
invited speakers:
Alexander Brown, University of Alberta
Tucker Carrington, Queen's University
Matthias Ernzerhof, Université de Montréal
Stephen Gray, Argonne National Laboratory
Hong Guo,
McGill University
Claude Leforestier, Université Montpellier II
Robert Le Roy, University of Waterloo
Marcel Nooijen, University of Waterloo
Gilles
Peslherbe, Concordia University
Bill Poirier, Texas Tech University
Pierre-Nicholas Roy, University of Waterloo
Bryan Sanctuary, McGill University
Dvira Segal, University of Toronto
Joshua Wilkie, Simon Fraser University
Robert Wyatt, University of Texas at
Austin
PT11 Static Electron Correlation
Organizers: Paul Ayers, McMaster University and Marcel Nooijen,
University of Waterloo
This symposium is supported by
Chemical Computing
Group andSHARCNET.
Confirmed
invited speakers:
Axel Becke, Dalhousie University, John C. Polanyi Award
Lecture
Bastiaan Braams, Emory University
Garnet Chan, Cornell University
Rogelio Cuevas, McMaster University
Matthias Ernzerhof, Université de Montréal
Paola Gori-Giorgi, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6)
Michael Hanrath, University of Cologne
So Hirata, University of Florida
Neepa Maitra, Hunter College
Debashis Mukherjee, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Maho Nakata, RIKEN
Kasia Pernal,
Politechnika Lodzka
Markus
Reiher, ETH Zürich
Lyudmila Slipchenko, Purdue University
Viktor Staroverov, The University of Western Ontario
Cyrus Umrigar, Cornell University
Marta Wloch, Michigan Technological University
Takeshi Yanai, Institute for Molecular Science
Dominika Zgid,
Cornell University
Tom
Ziegler, University of Calgary
PT12/AN7/SS3 Symposium on Frontiers of
Electrochemistry (joint with AN and
SS)
Organizers: Jacek Lipowski, University of Guelph and Gregory Jerkiewicz, Queen’s University
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Hector Abruna, Cornell University
Daniel Bélanger, Université du Québec à Montréal
Alex Brolo,
University of Victoria
Ian Burgess, University of Saskatchewan
Aicheng Chen, Lakehead University, Fred Beamish Award Lecture
Zhifeng Ding, The University of Western Ontario
Michael Eikerling, Simon Fraser University
Michael Freund, University of Manitoba
Dieter Kolb, Universität Ulm
Jean Lessard, Université de Sherbrooke
Richard
McCreery, University of Alberta
Sylvie Morin, York University
Sharon Roscoe, Acadia University
Germano
Tremiliosi-Filho, Universidade de São Paulo
Vlad Zamlynny, Acadia University
PT13 Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Optical
Energy Harvesting and Quantum Dots
Organizer: Gregory
Scholes, University of Toronto
Confirmed
invited speakers:
Keng Chang Chou, University of British Columbia
Naomi Ginsberg, University of California,
Berkeley
Pat Kambhampati, McGill University
Dwayne Miller, University of Toronto
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
Carlos Silva, Université de Montréal
Ronald Steer, University of Saskatchewan
Albert
Stolow, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
