The Brazilian Symposium of Theoretical Chemistry (SBQT) is organized every two years, with the main goal of gathering scientists, researchers, and students interested in the most recent advances in computational and theoretical chemistry in Brazil and other countries.
The XII SBQT will be hold in Caxambu (MG), at Hotel Glória, November 23 - 26, 2003. The deadline for registration is July 15, 2003. The registration and referring process of the abstracts will be carried out on line. We ask all participants to pay attention to the instructions presented at the Registration section.
It is the hope of the organizing committee to collect the largest number of suggestions for improving our meeting, so that we can attend most of our community. With this in mind, we recommend special attention to the section Forum, and that the participants make use of that section to exchange opinions, ideas, and suggestions.The Organizing Committee
SHORT HISTORY The need to improve the integration among all Brazilian researchers devoted to theoretical chemistry was a great motivation to Prof. Marco Antônio Chaer Nascimento to organize a Meeting of Theoretical Chemistry, at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), in Rio de Janeiro, in 1979. About fifty enthusiastic participants attended that meeting. The pleasant atmosphere and the high standard of the papers and talks presented were so impressing that it was decided that another meeting should be organized, resulting in the I Brazilian Symposium of Theoretical Chemistry in 1981, also organized by Prof. Chaer, at the same place. The number of participants increased, and two renowned scientists joined the Brazilian community of theoretical chemists during that event: Prof. William Goddard III, and Prof. Maximo Simonetta. During that meeting, it was decided that the SBQT should be realized every two years, in other parts of our country.
The II SBQT was held in Campinas, in 1983, and it was evident that the number of participants was growing much faster. Following the same outlines of the I SBQT, two eminent researches were present: Prof. John Pople (Nobel Prize of Chemistry, 1998), and Prof. Vincent McKoy. All participants had approximately 20 minutes to an oral presentation of their researches. There was no need for a poster section, because there was enough time for oral presentation of all participants, besides the plenary lectures.
The III SBQT took place in São Carlos, in 1985, following the general lines of the previous editions. However, an important characteristic of that meeting was the presence of a great number of Latin American scientists, among them Prof. Eduardo A. Castro e Prof. Eduardo V. Ludeña.
Due mainly to financial reasons, from the fourth SBQT the community decided to move definitively the symposium to the city of Caxambu, state of Minas Gerais. Caxambu is in a convenient geographic place situated at approximately equal distances from Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, the three main regions that concentrate about 80% of the theoretical community. Since then, all the following meeting have been realized in Caxambú, at Hotel Glória.
The number of posters increased significantly, and it was impossible to present all of them during oral sections. Therefore, during the IV SBQT it was created the poster section, in order to give the opportunity to all participants show and discuss their contributions with the whole community.
The SBQT was created with three main objectives: (i) to promote an interaction between theoreticians and experimentalists; (ii) to publicize the work realized in the country; and (iii) to strengthen the theoretical area as a whole. The symposium reached the twelfth edition, faithful to the original objectives, which were broadened over the last twenty years, with admirable and unquestionable success. Nowadays the SBQT constitute the biggest and most important theoretical scientific event in Latin America, providing a rich and stimulating environment for scientific discussion, being extremely motivating for students and young researchers.
The contribution of the SBQT to the development of the theoretical area in the country is undeniable. Theoretical chemistry, considered in the past as an area of purely academic interest, is now recognized as of great importance in the formation of contemporary chemists. The undergraduate and graduate courses addressing Theoretical Chemistry multiplied all over the country. In the present time, Theoretical Chemistry in Brazil includes contributions from various specific areas such as Quantum Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Dynamics, Computational Simulation of Liquid and Solid systems, Molecular Modeling of Systems of Biological and Technological interest, Chemical Catalysis, Physical Organic Chemistry, among others. Although the SBQT has, beyond any doubt, contributed to increase the scientific production of the area, the most outstanding contribution is the enhancement of the quality of the scientific works produced in the country. In quantitative terms, from 53 contributions presented in the first SBQT in 1981, we reached more than 400 in the last symposium. In addition, as a result of the increasing quality of the works presented, from the V SBQT to the X SBQT the annals of the symposium were published as special issues of the Journal of Molecular Structure (THEOCHEM). From the XI SBQT on, the annals have been published as a special issue of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only Brazilian event in the chemical area that achieved such recognition from the international scientific community.
In 2003 we are going to celebrate twenty two years of existence of the SBQT, a result of the great effort of the whole community to keep alive two decades of tradition in Theoretical Chemistry in our country. In this Symposium, as it has been happening in previous years, the subjects of the oral communications and plenary talks will be as much diversified as possible, aiming to cover the distinct areas of research existent in the theoretical community in our country.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair
Dr. Rogério Custodio
Instituto de Química
Unicamp
Barão Geraldo
13084-971 Campinas, São Paulo
Caixa Postal 6154
fone: 55-19-3788-3001 ou 55-19-3788-3111 ou 55-19-3788-3104
fax: 55-19-3788-3023Regional Committee
Representing Distrito Federal:
Dr. Kleber Mundim - Institute of Chemistry/University of Brasília
Representing Minas Gerais:
Dr. Hélio Ferreira dos Santos - Institute of Chemistry/Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Representing Pernambuco:
Dr. Oscar Malta - DQF/Federal University of Pernambuco
Representing Rio Grande do Sul:
Dr. Hubert Stassen - Institute of Chemistry/Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Representing Rio de Janeiro:
Dr. Marco Antonio Chaer do Nascimento - Institute of Chemistry/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Representing São Paulo:
Dr. Antônio Carlos Borin - Institute of Chemistry/University of São Paulo
Dr. Luiz Carlos Gomide Freitas - Institute of Chemistry/Federal University of São Carlos
Local Committee
Dr. Nelson Henrique Morgon - Institute of Chemistry/State University of Campinas
TOPICS
During the Symposium, general aspects of the following areas are discussed:
Classic Mechanics
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Eletromagnetism
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Quantum Mechanics
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Probability and StatisticsWithin these subjects, more specific aspects are frequently explored by the community:
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Electronic Struture Methods
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Analysis and Applications in Spectrocopy
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Electronic Correlation Effects
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Valence Bond
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Relativistic Methods
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Molecular Modeling and Force Fields
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Molecular Dynamics and Stochastic Methods
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Reaction Mechanisms
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Kinetic Models
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High Performance Computing
PROGRAM
Invited Speakers
Benedito J.Costa Cabral (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Bjorn Roos (University of Lund, Suécia)
Erkki Brandas (University of Uppsala, Suécia)
Léo Degrève (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
Ricardo Bica de Alencastro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Ricardo Longo (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)
Sócrates de Oliveira Dantas (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brasil)
Thomas Heine (Technische Universitat, Alemanha)
William A. Lester Jr. (University of Berkeley, EUA)
horário Sunday,11/23/03 Monday, 11/24/03 Tuesday, 11/25/03 Wednesday, 11/26/03 8:30-9:00 Posters (Even) Posters (Odd) Mini-conference 9:00-9:30 Mini-conference 9:30-10:00 Caffe Break 10:0-10:30 Caffe Break Caffe Break Conference 10:30-11:00 Mini-conference Mini-conference 11:00-11:30 Conference Conference Posters Awards 11:30-12:00 12:00-14:30 Arrival and Registration Lunch Lunch Lunch 14:30-15:00 Mini-conference Mini-conference 15:00-15:30 Posters Fixation Mini-conference Conference 15:30-16:00 Mini-conference 16:00-16:30 Caffe Break Caffe Break 16:30-17:00 Mini-conference Mini-conference 17:00-17:30 Conference Conference 17:30-18:00 18:00-20:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch 20:30-21:00 Abertura Conference Assembly 21:00-21:30 Conference 21:30-22:00 Round Table 22:00-22:30 Cocktail Cocktail 22:30...
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