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International Workshop
on Frontiers of Theoretical and Computational Physics and Chemistry
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The challenges to physical and chemical theories lie in three aspects: the accuracy, the size, and the time scale. Both theoretical physics and chemistry have enjoyed rapid advances in these contexts and provided great impact on essentially all aspects of experiments. However, theoreticians of the two intimately related disciplines seldom talk to each other. They even do not share the common languages. From the very beginning of the development theoretical chemists have been trying to solve the quantum mechanical equations as accurately as possible, while theoretical physics have been playing with various simplified physical models for obviously complex systems. However, the situations are now being changed in that theoretical chemists also start to look at systems of increasing complexity. Whereas theoretical physicists may want to learn from theoretical chemists about better accuracy, theoretical chemists certainly have to learn from physicists about the true physics.
The very first motivation of the series of workshops entitled
“Frontiers of Theoretical and Computational Physics and
Chemistry” is to provide a unique forum for theoretical
physicists and chemists such that mutual understanding will soon
be reached. The second motivation is of course to create mutual
collaborations and thus push the frontiers further. The third
but not least motivation is to strengthen the interplay between
theoreticians and experimentalists.
- Keli Han (*also the Honorary Secretary)
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