This Symposium was organized by Ghent University and the Free University of Brussels under the auspices and with the financial support of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen).

In 1996 a Scientific Research Network on "Quantum Chemistry: Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Density Functional Theory" was established within the FWO, now representing all Flemish Quantum Chemistry Groups, complemented with some famous groups from abroad.

In 2006, this research community was granted support for a third 5-year term. This working group has served as a local platform for the organization of the DFT 2003 Congress in Brussels, which attracted a series of outstanding speakers and more than 300 scientists from all over the world. Present members for the Flemish Community are C. Van Alsenoy / D. Lamoen (University of Antwerp), M. Waroquier / V. Van Speybroeck / D. Van Neck / P. Bultinck (Ghent University), M.T. Nguyen / R. Schoonheydt (KULeuven), M. Deleuze (Hasselt University), P. Geerlings / F. De Proft (Free University of Brussels).


The conference venue, ‘Het Pand’.

For this purpose 23 internationally renowned speakers were invited to deliver plenary (45 minutes +discussion) and invited talks (25 minutes +discussion) on various approaches. The following speakers spoke at this event:

Plenary

J. P. Perdew (Tulane University, USA)
E. J. Baerends (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
D. A. Mazziotti (University of Chicago, USA)
G. K. L. Chan (Cornell University, USA)
A. Savin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
S. Grimme (Universität Münster, Germany)
D. J. Tozer (Durham University, UK)
J. Hutter (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
P. W. Ayers (Mc Master University, Canada)
T. Ziegler (University of Calgary, Canada)
W. Yang (Duke University, USA)
F. Neese (Universität Bonn, Germany)
W. Kutzelnigg (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
D. G. Truhlar (University of Minnesota, USA)
L. Radom (University of Sydney, Australia)

Invited

K. Pernal (Technical University of Lodz, Poland)
B. Champagne (FUNDP, Namur)
A. M. Teale (University of Oslo, Norway)
M. Piris (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
J. Vandevondele (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
E. Johnson (University of California, Merced, USA)
P. Gori-Giorgi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
A. Michalak (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Downloads

UGent press release (Dutch)

Programme


Download the time schedule in PDF format