Academic Year 2014

Conjugated Carbon Systems
Symposium in honor of Douglas Klein
on the occasion of his 70th BIRTHDAY
Cuernavaca, Mexico, March 11th to 14th, 2014



Program

The title of the talk is the link to the abstract if supplied.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Monday

Excursion


Tuesday
10:00
Registration

10:30
Opening Session

10:45
Coffee break

Chairperson: G. Restrepo
11:15 J. Oliva
Similarities and differences in the world of boron and carbon chemistry

12:15 T. Stegman
Magnetotransport along the boundary of 2D electron systems

13:15
Lunch

Chairperson: T. Schmaltz
15:00 L. Griffin
Energies and other properties of increasingly large graphitic hydrocarbon molecules with paired 5,7 defects

16:00
Coffee break

16:30 V. Basiuk
Green Chemistry of Carbon Nanomaterials

17:30 B. Yakobson
Edge of sp2-carbon and theory of its growth as nanotube or graphene


Wednesday
Chairperson: J. Oliva
10:00 A. Franco
Relativistic equations and tight-binding model: microwave experiments

11:00 C. Ortega
Design of Fluorescent compounds using organometallic complexes as key intermediates

12:00
Coffee break

12:30 T. Schmaltz
Cluster Expansions of Molecular Properties

13:30
Lunch

15:30
Coffee break

Chairperson: L. Griffin
16:00 D. Klein
Conjugated-Carbon Nano-Structures

17:00 D. Yeager
Aspects of Complex Scaling for Electron-Atom/Molecule Resonances using MCSCF, MCSTEP, MCTDHF and MRCI


Thursday
Chairperson: Y. Ortiz
10:00 L. Bytautas
Ab initio method development and applications: Theoretical predictions of vibrational spectrum ahead of spectroscopic measurement

11:00 C. Bunge
Configuration interaction calculations with truncation energy error and orbital bases up to sextuple zeta: water ground state

12:00
Coffee break

12:30 T. Seligman
Spontaneous symmetry breaking under double adsorption of light alkalines to aromatic molecules and nano ribbons.

13:30
Lunch

Chairperson: B. Yakobson
16:30
Coffee break

17:00 A. Jalbout
Numerical Simulation in Industrial Nano-structre Based Applications: Insights from a Scientist and Entrepreneur

18:00 G. Restrepo
Generalized Periodic Table

19:30
Bithday Party at the Cave


Friday
Chairperson: L. Bytautas
10:00 M. Randić
Klar aromatic sextets revisited

11:00 Y. Ortiz
Graphene metal adsorption as a model chemistry for atmospheric reactions

12:00
Coffee break

12:30 J. Ascencio
Synthesis and characterisation of carbon structures with a view to their social impact

13:30
Lunch

Chairperson: M. Randić
15:30 D. Klein


16:30
Coffee break

17:00 W. Seitz
The Mixing Character of Genes


 
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bernardo@cicc.unam.mx