"Progress in theoretical chemistry: Biomolecules and Materials" Symposium (Sitges, June 25-29, 2017)

Next year (2017) at the XXXVI Reunión Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Química we (Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés, Núria López and myself) will be organizing a two-day symposium on Theoretical Chemistry with as theme Biomolecules and Materials:

Theoretical and computational chemistry play a major role in the development of chemical processes, and has become an essential tool of (bio)chemical studies. In the field of catalysis, the study of mechanisms is fundamental for understanding and improving the reactions, which is often done using DFT. Also in other fields has computational chemistry become the leading tool to find new discoveries. In this symposium we focus on three topics: (i) chemical bonding, (ii) biomolecular structure and (iii) functional materials. Within the five sessions these three topics will be amply discussed by experts in the field, together with other general topics such as excited states and catalysis.

The following invited speakers have been so kind to accept our invitation:

• Aleix Comas-Vivas (ETH Zürich, CH)
• Julia Contreras (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, FR)
• Francesco Gervasio (Univ. College London, UK)
• Lynn Kamerlin (Univ. Uppsala, SE)
• Zbigniew Lodziana (Polish Acad. Sciences Kraków, PL)
• Benedetta Mennucci (Univ. Pisa, IT)

Please reserve the date and join us in Sitges!!!