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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
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Sixteenth International Workshop
QUANTUM SYSTEMS IN CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
September 11-17, 2011
Ishikawa Prefecture Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan

http://qscp16.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Honorary Chair: Shigeyuki Aono (Funabashi, Japan)
Chair: Kiyoshi Nishikawa (Kanazawa, Japan)
Cochair: Jean Maruani (Paris, France)
Coordinating Chair: Erkki Brndas (Uppsala, Sweden)
This workshop, like the previous QSCP meetings, will bring together
chemists and physicists interested in quantum systems in molecular,
nano and material sciences. Quantum biochemists and biophysicists are
welcome to participate. Emphasis will be on many-body methods,
innovative theory, computational realization, and applications.
The Workshop will include sessions on:
* Concepts and Methods in Quantum Chemistry (CMQC)
* Molecular Structure, Dynamics, and Spectroscopy (MSDS)
* Atoms and Molecules in Strong Electric and Magnetic Fields (AMSF)
* Condensed Matter; Complexes and Clusters; Surfaces and Interfaces
(CCSI)
* Molecular and Nano Materials, Electronics and Biology (MNEB)
* Reactive Collisions and Chemical Reactions (RCCR)
* Computational Chemistry, Physics and Biology (CCPB)
The Proceedings of the Workshop are expected to be published in
Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics (Springer). Please let us
know if you wish to attend by e-mailing to: kiyoshi@wriron1.s.kanazawau.ac.jp, with a copy to: jean.maruani@upmc.fr.
--------You may register on-line through the following link (fee payment
and abstract submission can be made at a later date):

http://qscp16.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
--------Overseas participants may like to combine their coming to the
QSCP-XVI workshop in Kanazawa, Japan, with the ISTCP-VII congress
organized by Pr Hiromi Nakai at Waseda University, Tokyo, between
September 2 and 8, 2011:

http://www.chem.waseda.ac.jp/nakai/istcp7/index.shtml, which will very

conveniently take place shortly before the QSCP-XVI workshop.
--------Honorary Committee:
Rodney J. Bartlett (Gainesville, FL, USA)
Gerard Ferey (Versailles, France)
Kimihiko Hirao (Riken, Japan)
Janos Ladik (Erlangen, Germany)
Roy McWeeny (Pisa, Italy)
Hiroshi Nakatsuji (QCRI, Japan)
Josef Paldus (Waterloo, ON, Canada)
Michael A. Whitehead (Montreal, PQ, Canada)
International Scientific Committee:
Jean Maruani, Chair (Paris, France)
Vincenzo Aquilanti (Perugia, Italy)
Erkki Brndas (Uppsala, Sweden)
Gerardo Delgado-Barrio (Madrid, Spain)
Eugene Kryachko (Kiev, Ukraine)
Souad Lahmar (Carthage, Tunisia)
Aristides Mavridis (Athens, Greece)
Nimrod Moiseyev (Haifa, Israel)
Debashis Mukherjee (Calcutta, India)
Kiyoshi Nishikawa (Kanazawa, Japan)
Piotr Piecuch (Lansing, MI, USA)
Enrico Purisima (Montreal, PQ, Canada)
Oleg Vasyutinskii (St Petersburg, Russia)
Yan Alexander Wang (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Angela Wilson (Denton, TX, USA)
Local Organizing Committee:
Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Chair (Kanazawa University)
Hidemi Nagao, Co-chair (Kanazawa University)
Kazunaka Endo (Tokyo University of Science)
Junya Hasegawa (Kyoto University)
Tsuyoshi Kato (University of Tokyo)
Jun Kawai (Kyoto University)
Hirohiko Kono (Tohoku University)
Hiromi Nakai (Waseda University in Tokyo)
Masayoshi Nakano (Osaka University)
Tatsuki Oda (Kanazawa University)
Mitsutaka Okumura (Osaka University)
Hiroaki Saito (Kanazawa University)
Mineo Saito (Kanazawa University)
-----The Workshop will be held at Ishikawa Prefecture Museum of Art

(IPMA),
Kanazawa,
Japan:
http://www.ishibi.pref.ishikawa.jp/english/index.html. The predecessor
of this museum (Ishikawa Prefecture Museum) was opened in October,
1959, as one of the oldest regional museums in Japan. In 1983, the new
museum (IPMA) was built on the same location.
QSQP-XVI will last for six days, from September 11 to 17, 2011.
Please mark up your calendars.
Kanazawa is located in the central part of the mainland of Japan.
The southeast of the city faces the mountains and the northwest faces
the Sea of Japan. It was a great castle town ruled by an influential
leader from the 17th century through the 19th century. Kanazawa has
maintained rows of historical houses and inherited traditional crafts
and arts.
IPMA is located in the cultural heart of Kanazawa and can be
accessed by a 15-minute walk from downtown Kanazawa. There are many
other cultural and historical museums around IPMA, such as Ishikawa
Prefecture Noh Theater, Ishikawa-Ken History Museum, 21st Century
Museum of Contemporary Art, etc. It is neighbouring on Kenrokuen
Garden, one of three most beautiful gardens in Japan.
IPMA was intended to display fine arts and traditional crafts
from Ishikawa Prefecture, including feudal Daimyo ustensils using the
Kaga Makie technique and a huge range of Kutani porcelain collection from Old Kutani to Reestablished Kutani. IPMA collections include one
National Treasure and four Important Cultural Properties in its
permanent exhibition halls.
The conference venue will be split into the IPMA (talks) and the
very close Shiinoki cultural complex (posters). The main accommodation
place will be Excel Hotel Tokyu in the centre of downtown, where the
banquet will take place. Attendees can select their hotel according to
their budget. The Excel Hotel Tokyu and more economical hotels will be
listed on the home page of the Workshop.
Kanazawa
has
many
seafood
restaurants
and
also
foreign
restaurants (Chinese, French, Italian, etc.) around Excel Hotel Tokyu.
While lunch will be served in the neighbouring IPMA annex, participants
may enjoy dinner in Kanazawa according to their favourite taste.
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As during most QSCP workshops since Sofia (Bulgaria) and also at
the ICTCP-IV Congress in Marly-le-Roi (France), there will be an AWARD
CEREMONY for the Promising Scientist Prize of CMOA at the Banquet
Dinner of QSCP-XV. If you wish to APPLY or NOMINATE a young scientist
please consult our web site: www.lcpmr.upmc.fr/prize.html, and send the
application or nomination before July 16 to Prof. Kiyoshi Nishikawa,
Chair of the QSCP-XVI workshop (kiyoshi@wriron1.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp),
with copies to Prof. Jean Maruani, President of CMOA
(jemmaran@gmail.com), and to Prof. Erkki Brndas, Chair of the
Selection Committee (Erkki@kvac.uu.se).
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Attendance rates include free use of the facilities of the

Workshop premises, coffee breaks, lunch for six days, a booklet of
abstracts, a copy of the proceedings (with a 75% discount on the market
price), and a social programme involving a guided tour, a Japanese drum
performance and a banquet dinner with the award ceremony.
Medical, accident and liability insurance is not included in the
registration fees. QSCP participants should make it sure they are fully
insured from their home institution.
Early-bird registrants (payment made before March 1st, 2011):
- Normal: 59,000 Yen (about 730 $ or 520 E).
- Students: 50,000 Yen (about 620 $ or 440 E).
- Accompanying persons: 31,000 Yen (about 382 $ or 274 E).
Regular registrants (payment made before July 15, 2011):
- Normal: 65,000 Yen (about 800 $ or 580 E).
- Students: 55,000 Yen (about 680 $ or 490 E).
- Accompanying persons: 31,000 Yen (about 382 $ or 274 E).
Late registrants (payment made after July 15, 2011) will pay a
surcharge of 8% on the regular registrants rates.
Payment should be made preferably by money transfer to the
account (please request that transfer fees be charged to the sender):
Bank name: The Hokuriku Bank, Ltd.
Bank address: Kanazawa, Japan
Account holder: QSCP-XVI NISHIKAWA KIYOSHI
Account number: 0144-308-5056810
Swift code: RIKB JP JT
--------------NEWS OF PREVIOUS QSCP WORKSHOPS
Previous QSCP workshops were held in [or near] Pisa [San Miniato]
(1996), Oxford (1997), Granada (1998), Paris [Marly-le-Roi] (1999),
Uppsala (2000), Sofia (2001), Bratislava [Casta Paprinicka] (2002),
Athens [Spetses] (2003), Grenoble [Les Houches] (2004), Carthage
(2005), St Petersburg [Pushkin] (2006), Windsor [Royal Holloway]
(2007), Lansing [MSU, USA] (2008), Madrid [El Escorial] (2009), and
Cambridge (2010). Details of the proceedings of the most recent
meetings are given below.
--------------PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on "Quantum Systems in
Chemistry and Physics" (Cambridge, England) will be published in PTCP

by September 2011. The deadline for submitting manuscripts has been set
as November 30, 2010, for regular and review papers: http://qscpxv.ensicaen.fr/index.php. For any difficulty to meet the deadline
please send an e-mail to the main editor, Philip Hoggan:
pehoggan@yahoo.com, with a copy to the series editor, Jean Maruani:
marjema@wanadoo.fr.
--------------PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on "Quantum Systems in
Chemistry and Physics" (El Escorial, Spain) will appear in I.J.Q.C.,
vol. 111 (2) pp. not yet available (2011).
--------------PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTEENTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on "Quantum Systems in
Chemistry and Physics" (Lansing, MI, USA) have appeared as volumes 19
and 20 of P.T.C.P. (750 pages in total) in October 2009:
http://www.springer.com/chemistry/book/978-90-481-2595-1
http://www.springer.com/chemistry/book/978-90-481-2984-3
--------------PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on "Quantum Systems in
Chemistry and Physics" (Windsor, England) have appeared as vol. 18
(600 p.) of P.T.C.P. (2008):
http://www.springer.com/chemistry/book/978-1-4020-8706-6
--------------PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on "Quantum Systems in
Chemistry and Physics" (St Petersburg, Russia) have appeared in
I.J.Q.C., vol. 107 (14), pp. 2565-2985 (2007).
--------------PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH WORKSHOP
The Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on "Quantum Systems in Chemistry
and Physics" (Carthage, Tunisia) have appeared as vol. 16 (300 p.) of
P.T.C.P. (2007):
http://www.springer.com/chemistry/physical/book/978-1-4020-5459-4
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