Archive for October, 2017

10th Liblice Conference on the Statistical Mechanics of Liquids

The 10th Liblice Conference on the Statistical Mechanics of Liquids will be taking place at the Šumava National Park in Srní, Czech Republic between the 17-22 June 2018.

The upcoming 10th conference will follow the spirit of the previous meetings to provide an effective forum for contacts and for the exchange of ideas, with an emphasis on discussions rather than on formal presentations, highlighting achievements and challenges in both theoretical and applied aspects of the discipline. The program will include recent developments in the fields of:

  • Liquid-state theories
  • Molecular simulation: methodology and force field development
  • Fluid interfaces and confined fluids
  • Aqueous systems, including electrolytes
  • Soft matter
  • Nucleation; supercooled/glassy states
  • Active matter

The deadline for registration and abstract submission is 17 December 2017.

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Ultrafast chemistry themed collection now online

We are delighted to announce that the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) themed collection on XUV/X-ray light and fast ions for ultrafast chemistry is now online and free to access until the end of November 2017.

Guest Edited by Manuel Alcamí, Paola Bolognesi and Luis Bañares, in collaboration with the XLIC COST Action, this collection of articles showcases research on the understanding, monitoring and control of the complex ultrafast electronic and nuclear dynamics that occur in molecules when a large amount of energy is deposited via XUV/X-ray photon absorption or fast-ion collisions.

Read the full collection online

Editorial
XUV/X-ray light and fast ions for ultrafast chemistry
P. Bolognesi, L. Bañares and M. Alcamí
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 19533-19535. DOI: 10.1039/C7CP90137B

Perspective
A perspective for investigating photo-induced molecular dynamics from within with femtosecond free electron lasers
Nora Berrah
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 19536-19544. DOI: 10.1039/C7CP01996C

Paper
A fully general time-dependent multiconfiguration self-consistent-field method for the electron–nuclear dynamics
Ryoji Anzaki, Takeshi Sato and Kenichi L. Ishikawa
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 22008-22015. DOI: 10.1039/C7CP02086D

Paper
Ab initio calculation of inelastic scattering
Andrés Moreno Carrascosa and Adam Kirrander
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 19545-19553. DOI: 10.1039/C7CP02054F

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ECPC-2017 Poster Prize Winners!

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics would like to say a big congratulations to the winners of the poster prizes at this year’s European Conference on Physical Chemistry (ECPC-2017).

PCCP sponsored two prizes at the conference and these were awarded to Natalia Esteves-López and Federico Dapiaggi. Congratulations to both!

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New PCCP Associate Editor: Anna Krylov

We are delighted to welcome Anna Krylov as our newest Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Associate Editor.

Anna Krylov, University of Southern California, USA

ORCiD orcid.org/0000-0001-6788-5016

Anna Krylov is the Gabilan Distinguished Professor in Science and Engineering and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California working in the area of theoretical and computational quantum chemistry. Born in Donetsk, Ukraine, Krylov received her M.Sc. from Moscow State University and her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she worked on molecular dynamics in rare gas clusters and matrices under the supervision of Professor Benny Gerber. Upon completing her Ph.D., she joined the group of Prof. Martin Head-Gordon at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral research associate, where she became involved with electronic structure method development. In 1998, she joined the Department of Chemistry at USC.

Professor Krylov’s research is focused on theoretical modeling of open-shell and electronically excited species. She develops robust black-box methods to describe complicated multi-configurational wave functions in single-reference formalisms, such as coupled-cluster and equation-of-motion approaches. She developed the spin-flip approach, which extends coupled-cluster and density functional methods to diradicals, triradicals, and bond-breaking. Krylov also develops many-body theories for describing metastable electronic states (resonances) and tools for spectroscopy modeling (including non-linear optical properties). Using the tools of computational chemistry, and in collaboration with experimental laboratories, Krylov investigates the role that radicals and electronically excited species play in combustion, gas- and condensed-phase chemistry, solar energy, bioimaging, and ionization-induced processes in biology.

Professor Krylov’s research has been recognized by several awards including the Dirac medal from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), Theoretical Chemistry Award from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, and Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Krylov is an elected member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and a Board Member of WATOC.

I am delighted to serve the community as an Associate editor of PCCP. Since its inception, PCCP has been promoting high-quality rigorous research, by providing excellent peer-reviewed publication platform.”

As a PCCP Associate Editor, Anna will provide her expertise in the fields of:

  • Theoretical studies and methods
  • Kinetics, spectroscopy
  • Energy storage/conversion
  • Electrochemistry

Submit your best work in these areas to Anna now.

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