Chemical Sciences | D4S8 17/35 Quantum Physics through the computational lens - Dorit Aharonov

Celebrating the 70th birthday of the State of Israel
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities cordially invites you to a conference on

The Grand Challenges in the Chemical Sciences

Sunday–Thursday, June 3–7, 2018

Organizing Committee: Prof. Raphael Levine (Chair),
Prof. Joshua Jortner, Prof. Dan Shechtman, Prof. Itamar Willner

Wednesday, June 6, 2018
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Session 8 | Quantum Technologies

Chair
Paul Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles

Dorit Aharonov, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Quantum Physics through the computational lens

Moti Segev, IASH member; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Topological photonics

Abraham Nitzan, IASH member; Tel Aviv University
Molecular electronics and plasmonics: Electrons, light and heat transport at the nanoscale

Session 9 | Big Data / Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Chair
David Harel, Vice President, IASH; Weizmann Institute of Science

Naftali Tishby, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The machine & deep learning revolution: How does it change our understating of chemical sciences?

Todd Martinez, Stanford University
How much chemistry can we learn with machine learning?

Session 10 | Computational & Theoretical

Chair
Rudy Marcus, 1992 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; California Institute of Technology

EKU Gross, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
TDDFT: Simulating, analyzing and controlling many-electron dynamics, from photovoltaics to laser-driven spin switching

Leeor Kronik, Weizmann Institute of Science
Progress and challenges in the formalism and application of density functional theory

Leticia González, University of Vienna
Molecular photochemistry

Session 11 | Photosynthesis and Energy Storage

Chair
Yaron Silberberg, IASH member; Weizmann Institute of Science

Shaul Mukamel, University of California, Irvine
Novel spectroscopic probes of photosynthetic charge and energy transfer with quantum and x-ray light

Paul Brumer, University of Toronto
Seeking quantum effects in biological light-harvesting systems

Nathan Nelson, Tel Aviv University
Photosynthetic reaction centers: The engine of life

Greg Engel, University of Chicago
Design principles of photosynthetic light harvesting

Evening Lecture

Chair
Moti Segev, IASH member; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Dan Shechtman, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; IASH member; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Scientific blunders

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