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

Program

The electronic abstract book can be found at here. (The updated schedule is not included.) 

Friday, July 24, 2026

S-1

Hands-on Session

H-1   17:00–18:00
SAI

Saturday, July 25, 2026

S-2

Session Chair: Weihai Fang (Beijing Normal University)

L-1   08:30–09:10
Nancy Makri (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Numerically Exact Real-Time Path Integral Methods for Quantum Dynamics

L-2   09:10–09:50
Victor Batista (Yale University)
Quantum Machine Learning in Chemistry

S-3

Session Chair: Jiushu Shao (Beijing Normal University)

L-3   10:20–11:00
Jianshu Cao (MIT)
Polariton Chemistry: Quantum Control with Cavity Photons

L-4   11:00–11:40
Dmitry Shalashilin (University of Leeds)
Electrophore Model for Dissociation of Molecules After Electron Impact in Plasma

S-4

Session Chair: Wenjian Liu (Shandong University)

L-5   13:30–14:10
Weinan E (Peking University)
Large atomistic models: from DPA-1 to DPA-4

L-6   14:10–14:50
Mark Tuckerman (New York University)
From Quantum Statistics to Dynamics: Machine learning and other algorithms for quantum simulation via path integrals

S-5

Session Chair: Xiaodong Wen (Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

L-7   15:20–16:00
Xin Xu (Fudan University)
Efficient Pair-Density Functional Theory for Complex Molecular Systems

L-8   16:00–16:40
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

S-6

Session Chair: Basile Curchod (University of Bristol)

H-2   17:00–17:30
hNaF

H-3   17:30–18:00
DeepPotential

Sunday, July 26, 2026

S-7

Session Chair: Hong Jiang (Peking University)

L-9   08:30–09:10
Matthias Scheffler (The NOMAD Laboratory at BIFOLD, TU Berlin)
Interpretable AI with Quantified Trust for the Discovery of Energy Materials

L-10   09:10–09:50
Reinhard Maurer (University of Goettingen & University of Vienna)
Ultrafast Dynamics at Surfaces with Machine Learning Surrogates

S-8

Session Chair: Wei Hu (University of Science and Technology of China)

L-11   10:20–11:00
Shuhua Li (Nanjing University)
Equation-of-motion Block-correlated Coupled Cluster Methods as Electronic Structure Drivers for Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulations

L-12   11:00–11:40
Seiichiro Ten-no (Kobe University)
Recent Advances of Projective Transcorrelation Theory

H-4   11:40–12:10
PySCF

S-9

Session Chair: Haobin Wang (University of Colorado Denver)

L-13   14:00–14:40
Tucker Carrington (Queen's University)
Using a product contracted basis and optimised collocation points to solve the Schroedinger equation

L-14   14:40–15:20
Rachel Crespo-Otero (University College of London)
Understanding excited state processes in molecular crystals

S-10

Session Chair: Jiali Gao (Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)

H-5   15:50–16:30
Chen Li (Peking University)
New Perspective into Delocalization Error and Strong Correlation Error in Density Functional Approximations

H-6   16:30–17:10
Jian Liu (Peking University)
PSiQMD

H-7   17:10–17:40
D. V. Makhov (University of Leeds)
Direct simulations of ultrafast molecular dynamics with ab initio multiple cloning approach

Monday, July 27, 2026

S-11

Session Chair: Yajun Liu (Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai)

L-15   08:30–09:10
Weitao Yang (Duke University)
From Functional Approximations to Excited State Theory and Computation in DFT

L-16   09:10–09:50
Jiali Gao (Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)
The One-Determines-All (ODA) Principle of MSDFT and the Design of Approximate Matrix Functionals

S-12

Session Chair: Run Long (Beijing Normal University)

L-17   10:20–11:00
Leeor Kronik (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Advances in Optical Spectroscopy from Density Functional Theory

L-18   11:00–11:40
Zhenggang Lan (South China Normal University)
Ab Initio Simulation of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Nonadiabatic Dynamics in Polyatomic Molecules

H-8   11:40–12:10
Bingbing Suo (Northwest University, China)
BDF in The Dawn of AGI Era: New Development and Pespective

S-13

Session Chair: Andrey Vasenko (HSE University)

L-19   14:00–14:40
Piotr Piecuch (Michigan State University)
H3+ Formation from Methyl Halogens and Pseudohalogens: Experiment, Theory, and Governing Factors

L-20   14:40–15:20
Federica Agostini (Sorbonne University)
Theory and Simulations of Ultrafast Processes in Molecules

S-14

Session Chair: Xuefei Xu (Tsinghua University)

L-21   15:50–16:30
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

L-22   16:30–17:10
Akira Nakayama (The University of Tokyo)
Molecular Insight into the Adsorption and Conversion at the Liquid/Solid-Oxide Interface

H-9   17:10–17:40
Wei Hu (University of Science and Technology of China)
Discontinuous Galerkin Hartree-Fock: Predicting Accurate Electronic Structures of Complex Metallic Systems with Millions of Atoms on Exascale Sunway Supercomputer

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

S-15

Session Chair: Mark Tuckerman (New York University)

L-23   08:30–09:10
Dong Hui Zhang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS)
Water Clusters and Bulk Simulations with an Accurate Universal Potential

L-24   09:10–09:50
Francesco Paesani (University of California, San Diego)
From Water to Biomolecules: Data-Driven Many-Body Potentials for Predictive Molecular Simulations

S-16

Session Chair: Ganglong Cui (Beijing Normal University)

L-25   10:20–11:00
Zhigang Shuai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen)
Time-Dependent DMRG for Quantum Dynamics

L-26   11:00–11:40
Daniel Escudero (KU Leuven)
Quantum Chemical and Dynamical Simulations to Unravel Complex Photophysics

S-17

Session Chair: Yunlong Xiao (Peking University)

L-27   14:00–14:40
Trond Saue (CNRS/Université de Toulouse)
Quantum Electrodynamics for Chemistry

L-28   14:40–15:20
Christoph van Wüllen (TU Kaiserslautern)
Quasi-Relativistic (Two-Component) Hamiltonians

S-18

Session Chair: Bingbing Suo (Northwest University, China)

L-29   15:50–16:30
Garnet Chan (California Institute of Technology)
Towards Reaction Mechanism Discovery in Biological Systems

L-30   16:30–17:10
Xiaosong Li (University of Washington)
Breaking the Quadrillion Determinant Barrier in Numerically Exact Configuration Interaction

S-Poster

Session Chair: Eberhard K. U. Gross (Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Tsientang Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou)

S-Poster   17:10–18:00
Poster Session Floor B2 of Build C, CCME

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

S-19

Session Chair: Chen Li (Peking University)

L-31   08:30–09:10
Frank Neese (Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung)
New Developments in the Quantum Chemistry of Open Shell Systems

L-32   09:10–09:50
Wenjian Liu (Shandong University)
Size-Extensive General-Model-Space Many-Body Theories

S-20

Session Chair: Hui Li (Jilin University)

L-33   10:20–11:00
Eli Pollak (Weizmann Institute of Science)
The Semiclassical Route to Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics

L-34   11:00–11:40
Nandini Ananth (Cornell University)
Excited State Charge and Energy Transfer Mechanisms from Modern Semiclassical Theory

S-21

Session Chair: William Glover (NYU Shanghai)

L-35   14:00–14:40
Michele Ceotto (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Non-adiabatic Semiclassical Molecular Dynamics

L-36   14:40–15:20
Fabien Gatti (CNRS and Université Bourgogne Europe)
Quantum Dynamics with the Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree(MCTDH) Method

S-22

Session Chair: Elise Dumont (Université Côte d'Azur)

L-37   15:50–16:30
Basile Curchod (University of Bristol)
Describing Photoexcitation in Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics

L-38   16:30–17:10
Eberhard K. U. Gross (Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Tsientang Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou)
The Exact Factorization, A Universal Approach to Non-Adiabaticity

Updated 2026-07-26.