Partial Financial Support of the 54th Sanibel Symposium - 360 degree View of Quantum Theory and Ab Initio Simulation at Extreme Conditions - February 16-21,2014

The 54th Sanibel meeting will include two special symposia in the strong Sanibel Symposium tradition. The Sanibel Symposia bring condensed-matter and materials physicists and quantum chemists together to focus on methods for computing materials and molecular properties. The Symposia also have played a significant role in preparing a whole generation of theorists.

The first special event is the "360 degree view". It will recognize the contributions of Rodney Bartlett (70), Bill Butler (70), Yngve Ohrn (80), Fritz Schaefer (70), and Malcolm Stocks (70). Their work has greatly impacted several generations of researchers. More than just the sum of their ages, the “360” denotes a panoramic outlook on critical developments and needed advances in theoretical and computational chemistry and materials physics. Thus, two of the seven "360" plenary sessions will focus specifically on younger scientists.

The second special event is a 4-session sub-symposium on Ab Initio Simulation at Extreme Conditions. The emphasis will be on methods beyond standard DFT-driven Born-Oppeneimer molecular dynamics, systems in the warm dense matter regime, and related issues of extreme material and chemical conditions relevant to inertial confinement fusion and giant planet interiors.

In addition to the 360 degree view and the Extreme Simulation segments, other plenary sessions will present advances in electronic structure, excitation spectra, non-adiabatic dynamics, disorder and defects, electron transport, and first-principles simulation and accomplishments in theoretical and computational chemistry and physics.

The meeting will be held Feb. 16 - Feb 21, 2014, at the historic King and Prince Hotel on St. Simons' Island, GA. There will be seventeen plenary and six poster sessions. Early registration (onlne) and abstract deadlines are December 31, 2013.

Attendees are encouraged to submit papers to the Sanibel Proceedings, publshed by Molecular Physics. All papers will be peer reviewed. The deadline for submitted papers is April 30, 2014. All should be submitted to Mol. Phys. and designated for the Sanibel Proceedings.

The 2014 Sanibel Symposium will be the 54th version of the longest running, privately organized, annual meeting in the field of the quantum theoretical treatment of electronic structure, spectra, dynamics, and transport.