Program

Confirmed Invited Speakers

• Marie-Pierre Gaigeot (LAMBE, Université d’Evry val d’Essonne Paris, France):
  Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and non-linear SFG spectroscopy at aqueous interfaces
• Joachim Heberle (Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany):
  The German Research Ombudsman: An Instrument Dealing with Scientific Misconduct
• Poul Jørgensen (Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark):
  Quantum Chemistry on Supercomputers of Tomorrow
• Jacob Kongsted (Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy; University of Southern Denmark, Denmark):
  Polarizable Embedding – from solvents to heterogeneous environments
• Oliver Kühn (Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Germany):
  X-ray Spectroscopy of Water and Solvated Transition Metal Complexes
• Tom Markland (Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA):
  Nuclear quantum effects in aqueous systems
• Bernd Meyer (Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials and Computer-Chemistry-Center, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany):
  Proton dynamics at the solid/liquid interface and in confinement
• Roland Netz (Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany):
  Solvation in confinement, continuum versus molecular approaches
• Kenneth Ruud (Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, Norway):
  Multiphoton electronic and vibrational spectroscopy in complex environments
• Elsa Sanchez-Garcia (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany):
  Multiscale simulations of chemical processes in solution
• Eckhard Spohr (Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany):
  Computer Modelling of Solvated Electrodes: Electrochemistry at the liquid/solid interface
• Douglas Tobias (Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, USA):
  Ion behavior at the interfaces between air and aqueous electrolyte solutions: lessons learned from molecular dynamics simulations
• Joost VandeVondele (Nanoscale Simulations, ETH Zürich, Switzerland):
  Liquid water and aqueous chemistry: a case for post-GGA approaches
• Lucas Visscher (Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands):
  Subsystem DFT approaches to model electronically excited states in complex systems

Book of Abstracts

The Book of Abstracts will be available only online. As no hardcopy of the Book of Abstracts will neither be handed out at the conference or widely available, we strongly recommend to either download the interactive PDF file (from a link to be made available to you in advance) onto your mobile device or to print the PDF file before attending the conference (please note that no printers will be available on site).

Lectures

The program is scheduled to start on Monday at 13:45 h and to end on Thursday around 13:30 h.

All lectures will take place in HZO 20 (=Hörsaal Zentrum Ost / Hörsaal 20).

All speakers are asked to set up and test their presentations prior to their session. If you bring your presentation on a USB stick (preferentially as a standard PDF file, or also as a native PowerPoint Office file)  we kindly ask you to make sure you upload the file on the computer provided on site and to test your presentation well before your talk is scheduled to begin.

If your presentation contains animations and/or sophisticated graphics, or has a different format from those supported by us, please bring your own laptop for your presentation. Again, this should be tested well in advance. If your laptop does not have a VGA output, please provide your own VGA adapter.

Some technical support will be available to assist if necessary but each speaker is responsible as outlined.

Posters

The poster sessions will take place in the Audimax (directly opposite of HZO) from 18:30 to 22:00 h.

• Monday (odd numbers)
• Tuesday (even numbers)

The recommended poster format is portrait DIN A0 (corresponding to a height of 1189 mm and a width of 841 mm). Material to attach the posters will be provided whereas no possibility of printing posters from a file will be available.

The posters can be put up in the morning of the respective day and have to be removed directly after the respective session at night; all remaining posters will be disposed of as waste immediately thereafter.

Excursion

According to the poll at the AGTC Mitgliederversammlung during the STC 2015, there will be no excursion organized in view of the new format of STC 2016 that deliberately excludes the weekend. Nevertheless, Bochum and Metropolis Ruhr feature a polycentric and vibrant cultural landscape which is very worthwhile to exploring before or after the STC.

More information can be found here:
http://www.rub.de/universitaet/kultur-und-freizeit/index_en.html