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Simons Symposium on the Occasion of the 70th birthday of Zlatko Bačić

October 25 @ 9:00 am - 7:00 pm

Join the Simons Center and NYU’s Department of Chemistry as we celebrate Zlatko Bačić on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

The event, to be held in room 914 New York University’s Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, will feature lectures by an international array of speakers.  

Click here for a pdf of the Symposium Program.

There is no charge to attend, but registration is required using the form at the bottom of this page.

 

Schedule:

Time   Event  
       
9:00 AM   Arrival  Kimmel Center room 914
       
9:10 AM   Opening Remarks James Canary, New York University
Joel Bowman, Emory University
Tucker Carrington, Queen’s University, Canada
       
    Session I Chair:   Mark Tuckerman
9:25 AM     Jack Simons, University of Utah
The Wonderful World of Molecular Anions
       
9:50 AM     Martin Quack, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Symmetries and Time Scales in Chemical Kinetics: Spectroscopy and Theory 
       
10:15 AM     Krzysztof Szalewicz, University of Delaware
High-accuracy potentials and spectra for hydrogen-bonded dimers and trimers 
       
10:40 AM   Break  
       
    Session II Chair:  Yohann Scribano
11:00 AM     Joel Bowman, Emory University
Potentials, dynamics and collaborations
       
11:25 AM     Tucker Carrington, Queen’s University, Canada
Compensating for collocation error by using more points than functions
       
11:50 AM     Dong Hui Zhang, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Towards a quantitatively accurate universal potential for water
       
12:15 PM     Bill Poirier, University of Vermont
Entanglement-Induced Selection Rules: Work inspired by Zlatko Bačić
       
12:40 PM   Lunch  
       
    Session III Chair: Pierre-Nicholas Roy
1:40 PM     David Tannor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
200 Years After Hamilton: The Simple Axiom That Underlies Classical Mechanics
       
2:05 PM     Fabien Gatti, University Paris-Saclay, France
Quantum dynamics with MCTDH
       
2:30 PM     Lorenzo Ulivi, CNR-IFAC, Italy
Neutron spectroscopy of trapped Hydrogen molecule
       
2:55 PM     Yohann Scribano, Université de Montpellier, France
Two-layer anharmonicity of infrared shift in weakly bound molecular complexes
       
3:20 PM   Break  
       
    Session IV Chair: Fabien Gatti
3:40 PM     Peter M. Felker, UCLA
Calculation of intermolecular states in water trimer
       
4:05 PM     Pierre-Nicholas Roy, University of Waterloo, Canada
Confined molecules
       
4:30 PM     Mark Tuckerman, New York University
Machine learning enabled path integral studies of quantum-driven diffusion of molecules and ions in condensed phases
       
4:55 PM   Final
Remarks		 Peter M. Felker, UCLA
Martin Quack, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Zlatko Bačić, New York University
       
5:15 PM   Reception Kimmel Center room 405/406

 

 

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Date:
October 25
Time:
9:00 am - 7:00 pm