Almlöf-Gropen Lectures
The Almlöf-Gropen lecture was established to honour the memory of two central scientists in quantum chemical research in Norway.
Read more about Jan Almlöf and Odd Gropen.
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The 2023 Almlöf—Gropen Lecture will be given by Prof. Dr. Frank Neese, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim, Germany, on Tuesday 21st November 2023 (in Oslo) and Thursday 23rd November 2023 (in Tromsø) as part of a seminar that also features contributions from Dr. Sigbjørn Løland Bore and Dr. Torsha Moitra from the Hylleraas Centre.
The 2022 Almlöf–Gropen lecture will be given by Prof. Clemence Corminboeuf, EPFL, Switzerland on 1st June 2022 as part of a seminar that also features contributions from Sahil Gahlawat and Samiran Sen from the Hylleraas Centre.
We are happy to announce that the 2021Almlöf–Gropen lecture will be given by Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik, University of Toronto on 10 September. The title of his lecture is There is no time for science as usual: Materials Acceleration Platforms. This online event also features contributions from Tanner Culpitt and Gabriel Gerez from the Hylleraas Centre.
We are happy to announce that the 2020 Almlöf-Gropen lecture, which had to be postponed due to the ongoing pandemic, will be given by Prof. Leticia Gonzalez, University of Vienna. The title of her lecture is Light and shadows on the quantum simulation of molecular electronic excited states. The event will also feature contributions from Abril C. Castro and Ryan Wilkins from the Hylleraas Centre.
The annual Almlöf-Gropen Lecture will be held by Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer.
Title: Chemistry with the Computer
Title: Quantum Solutions for a Sustainable Energy Future
The Almløf-Gropen Lecturer of 2015 is Prof. Arieh Warshel, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
Title: Adventures in Free Radical Chemistry: A Computational Approach.
The title of the 2013 Almlöf–Gropen lecture is "From Donor–Acceptor Complexes to Gallium Nitride Nanorods".
Symposium Speaker is Odile Eisenstein, Directeur de Recherche, Institut Charles Gerhardt, CNRS, Université Montpellier 2, France and Professor II, CTCC, University of Oslo.
Professor Harry B. Gray, California Institute of Technology, USA.
The title of the 2011 Almlöf–Gropen lecture is "Relativity and Chemistry; some recent results".