Jul 25 – 29, 2026
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
Asia/Shanghai timezone

Invited Speakers

(Alphabetical order)

  • Federica Agostini (Sorbonne University)
    Theory and Simulations of Ultrafast Processes in Molecules
  • Nandini Ananth (Cornell University)
    Excited State Charge and Energy Transfer Mechanisms from Modern Semiclassical Theory
  • Victor Batista (Yale University)
    Quantum Machine Learning in Chemistry
  • Jianshu Cao (MIT)
    Polariton Chemistry: Quantum Control with Cavity Photons
  • Tucker Carrington (Queen’s University)
    Using a product contracted basis and optimised collocation points to solve the Schroedinger equation
  • Michele Ceotto (Università degli Studi di Milano)
    Non-adiabatic Semiclassical Molecular Dynamics
  • Rachel Crespo-Otero (University College of London)
    Understanding excited state processes in molecular crystals
  • Basile Curchod (University of Bristol)
    Describing Photoexcitation in Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics
  • Garnet Chan (California Institute of Technology)
    Towards Reaction Mechanism Discovery in Biological Systems
  • Weinan E (Peking University)
    Large atomistic models: from DPA-1 to DPA-4
  • Daniel Escudero (KU Leuven)
    Quantum Chemical and Dynamical Simulations to Unravel Complex Photophysics
  • Jiali Gao (Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)
    The One-Determines-All (ODA) Principle of MSDFT and the Design of Approximate Matrix Functionals
  • Fabien Gatti (CNRS and Université Bourgogne Europe)
    Quantum Dynamics with the Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree
    (MCTDH) Method
  • Eberhard K. U. Gross (Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Tsientang Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou)
    The Exact Factorization, A Universal Approach to Non-Adiabaticity
  • Seogjoo J. Jang (City University of New York - Queens College.)
    New Theoretical Advances Towards First Principles Calculation of Fermi’s Golden Rule Rates for Nonadiabatic Transitions
  • Leeor Kronik (Weizmann Institute of Science)
    Advances in Optical Spectroscopy from Density Functional Theory
  • Zhenggang Lan (South China Normal University)
    Ab Initio Simulation of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Nonadiabatic Dynamics in Polyatomic Molecules
  • Shuhua Li (Nanjing University)
    Equation-of-motion Block-correlated Coupled Cluster Methods as Electronic Structure Drivers for Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulations
  • Xiaosong Li (University of Washington)
    Breaking the Quadrillion Determinant Barrier in Numerically Exact Configuration Interaction
  • Wenjian Liu (Shandong University)
    Size-Extensive General-Model-Space Many-Body Theories
  • Nancy Makri (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    Numerically Exact Real-Time Path Integral Methods for Quantum Dynamics
  • Reinhard Maurer (University of Goettingen & University of Vienna)
    Ultrafast Dynamics at Surfaces with Machine Learning Surrogates
  • Akira Nakayama (The University of Tokyo)
    Molecular Insight into the Adsorption and Conversion at the Liquid/Solid-Oxide Interface
  • Frank Neese (Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung)
    New Developments in the Quantum Chemistry of Open Shell Systems
  • Francesco Paesani (University of California, San Diego)
    From Water to Biomolecules: Data-Driven Many-Body Potentials for Predictive Molecular Simulations
  • Piotr Piecuch (Michigan State University)
    H3+ Formation from Methyl Halogens and Pseudohalogens: Experiment, Theory, and Governing Factors
  • Eli Pollak (Weizmann Institute of Science)
    The Semiclassical Route to Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics
  • Trond Saue (CNRS/Université de Toulouse)
    Quantum Electrodynamics for Chemistry
  • Andreas Savin (CNRS and Sorbonne University)
    Correction of the Basis Set Error Due to the Absence of the Electron-Electron Cusp in the Wave Function by Using an Adiabatic Correction
  • Matthias Scheffler (The NOMAD Laboratory at BIFOLD, TU Berlin)
    Interpretable AI with Quantified Trust for the Discovery of Energy Materials
  • Dmitry Shalashilin (University of Leeds)
    Electrophore Model for Dissociation of Molecules After Electron Impact in Plasma
  • Zhigang Shuai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen)
    Time-Dependent DMRG for Quantum Dynamics
  • Seiichiro Ten-no (Kobe University)
    Recent Advances of Projective Transcorrelation Theory
  • Mark Tuckerman (New York University)
    From Quantum Statistics to Dynamics: Machine learning and other algorithms for quantum simulation via path integrals
  • Christoph van Wüllen (TU Kaiserslautern)
    Quasi-Relativistic (Two-Component) Hamiltonians
  • Xin Xu (Fudan University)
    Efficient Pair-Density Functional Theory for Complex Molecular Systems
  • Weitao Yang (Duke University)
    From Functional Approximations to Excited State Theory and Computation in DFT
  • Dong Hui Zhang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS)
    Water Clusters and Bulk Simulations with an Accurate Universal Potential