Vedene Smith memorial symposium


Vedene Smith

A symposium to honor the memory of Vedene H. Smith, Jr. (1935-2005) was held in Chania, Crete, Greece, as part of the International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, October 27--November 1, 2006. There were 17 presentations as listed below.

SpeakerPresentation
Rodney Bartlett Coupled-cluster theory for large molecules: The natural linear scaled coupled-cluster method.
Pierre Becker Density matrices, the central link between observations and theory.
Richard Brown Influence of metal cations on the intramolecular hydrogen-bonding network and pKa in phosphorylated compounds.
Ernest Davidson Charge and spin distributions.
Mireille Defranceschi An epitome of quantum chemistry in momentum space.
Ian Hamilton Quantum-classical correspondence for the kinetic energy.
Frank Harris Current studies of few-electron systems.
Mariusz Klobukowski Effects of quantum confinement on molecular structure, spectra, and reactivity.
Werner Kutzelnigg Density cumulant functional theory.
Sven Larsson Understanding superconductivity.
Paul Mezey Size measures of molecular electron densities --- From the Smith measure of electron pairs to local and global macromolecular measures.
Piotr Petelenz Theoretical models for electroabsorption spectroscopy of organic molecular crystals.
Dennis Salahub Towards the QM/MM modeling of complex biosystems with density functional theory and other tools.
Ajit Thakkar The life and work of Vedene H. Smith, Jr.
Wolf Weyrich An electronic position and momentum density study of chemical bonding in TiO2 (Rutile).
Robert Woods Incorporating charge polarization in classical force fields.
Paul Ziesche The electron-gas pair density and its geminal description.