Marcus Center Workshops on Electronic Structure Theory
Description
The goal of this workshop is to offer a forum for researchers working in the broad field of electronic structure theory, with a focus on methodological advances and their applications to challenging problems in chemistry and materials science. Topics of interest include:
- Theoretical developments such as density functional theory, coupled cluster theory, multireference methods, quantum Monte Carlo, low- and linear-scaling techniques, machine learning approaches, and quantum information science.
- Applications to heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, atmospheric chemistry, nonadiabatic processes, materials design, and sustainable chemistry.
Format
This 3-day workshop will feature invited talks from leading experts in the field during the mornings and afternoons of Days 1 and 2, and the morning of Day 3. We welcome participation from and attendance by both theorists and experimentalists interested in electronic structure methods and their applications. Postdocs and students are welcome to attend.
Dates
- Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 8 am–5 pm (PT)
- Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at 8 am–5 pm (PT)
- Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 8 am–noon (PT)
Location: Noyes Lab 147 at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 (building 72 on this map)
Registration: Registration is free but required. Please use this link to register by June 1, 2026.
Confirmed speakers (to date):
- George Booth (King's College London)
- Ksenia Bravaya (Boston University)
- Kay Carter-Fenk (University of Pittsburgh)
- Emanuel Griner (Sorbonne)
- Kade Head-Marsden (University of Minnesota)
- Heather J. Kulik (MIT)
- Joonho Lee (Harvard)
- Pierre-Francois Loos (LCPQ - University of Toulouse and CNRS)
- Miguel Morales (Flatiron Institute)
- Brenda M. Rubenstein (Brown)
- James Shee (Rice)
- Edward Valeev (Virginia Tech)
- Yang Yang (University of Wisconsin)
- Hong-Zhou Ye (University of Maryland)
- Tianyu Zhu (Yale)
Hosts: Timothy C. Berkelbach (Columbia) and Sandeep Sharma (Caltech)
Schedule: TBA (lunches will not be hosted)
No photography or recording allowed except by permission of the organizer.
If you have questions, please contact Marcus Center Administrator, Mi Kyung Kim ([email protected]).