Advances in Quantum Chemistry

Erkki Brändas was born in Tampere, Finland in July1940 and was, as a Finnish war child, transported to Sweden in February 1942, finally adopted by his Swedish parents and given Swedish citizenship in 1947. He received his FL (PhD) in 1969 and Doctor of Philosophy (habilitation) in 1972, both at Uppsala University. Except for guest professorships in USA, Germany, Israel, he spent his professional career in Uppsala employed as Assistant- Associate- and Full Professor from 1975 until retirement in 2007. In addition to serving as chairman of the department of Quantum Chemistry, he was appointed Executive Director of the Uppsala Graduate School Advanced Instrumentation and Measurement supervising the doctoral education of 35 PhD’s from 1997-2007. He has served on various international scientific and editorial boards, e.g. Wiley, Elsevier and Springer including the service as Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Series Editor of the Advances in Quantum Chemistry. He is the current President of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics, since 15 years, chairing a variety of international congresses and other numerous meetings, schools and workshops. He has published over 260 articles and edited more than 50 books on fundamental theoretical chemical physics from research on atoms, molecules and solid-state physics to complex enough systems in biology – from the microscopic realm to the cosmological rank. Rod Bartlett pioneered the development of coupled-cluster (CC) theory in quantum chemistry to offer highly accurate solutions of the Schroedinger equation for molecular structure and spectra, presenting the CCSD, CCSD[T], CCSDT, CCSDT[Qf], and CCSDTQ methods among many others. He extended the CC theory to excited, ionized, and electron attached states with his equation-of-motion EOM-CC methods. His group formulated analytical gradient theory for CC theory, making it possible to readily search potential energy surfaces and to provide vibrational spectra. His group introduced the STEOM-CC extensions for excited states.His group is also responsible for the widely used ACES II and massively parallel ACES III program system. He is the author of more than 500 journal articles and book chapters. He is the co-author with Isaiah Shavitt of the definitive book on coupled-cluster theory, “Many-Body Methods in Chemistry and Physics: MBPT and Coupled-Cluster theory,” Cambridge Press, 2009.

• 1. Can orbital basis sets compete with explicitly correlated ones for few-electron systems?Krzysztof Szalewicz2. Converging high-level equation-of-motion coupled-cluster energetics with the help of Monte Carlo and selected configuration interactionPiotr Piecuch3. Coupled cluster downfolding techniques: a review of existing applications in classical and quantum computing for chemical systemsKarol Kowalski4. Multi-reference methods for the description of dynamic and nondynamic electron correlation effects in atoms and moleculesLeszek Meissner5. Exploring the attosecond laser-driven electron dynamics in the hydrogen molecule with different TD-CI approachesAleksander Wozniak6. Molecular systems in spatial confinement: variation of linear and nonlinear electrical response of molecules in the bond dissociation processesWojciech Bartkowiak7. Relativistic Infinite-order two-component methods for heavy elementsMaria Barysz8. Second quantized approach to exchange energy revised – beyond the S^2 approximationPiotr Żuchowski9. Calculating atomic states without the Born-Oppenheimer approximationMonika Stanke10. Convergence of the Correlated Optimized Effective Potential MethodSzymon Filip Śmiga11. Generalized Relaxed Excitation with a Non-integer Particle and Hole Charge as an Excitation OrderKatarzyna Pernal12. Vanadium – based Materials for Catalytic Applications: Insight from Density Functional TheoryMałgorzta Witko13. Electronic convection in coherent information-theoretic description of molecular statesRoman F. Nalewajski14. Interparticle correlations and chemical bonding from physical side: Exact diagonalization combined with ab initio wave function adjustmentJozef Spalek and Ewa Brocławik15. ETS-NOCV and Molecular Electrostatic Potential-based Picture of Chemical BondingArtur Michalak16. Electrostatic Embedding for Elongation Cutoff Technique – Method AccuracyJacek Korchowiec17. From the Kolos-Wolniewicz calculations to the quantum-electrodynamic treatment of the hydrogen molecule: competition between theory and experimentJacek Komasa18. Making symmetry-adapted perturbation theory more accurateKonrad Patkowski and Tatiana Korona19. Advanced models of coupled cluster theory for the ground, excited and ionized statesMonika Musial and Stanislaw Kucharski