Program
The summer school will start on Sunday 22/9 and will close on the afternoon/evening of Saturady 28/9.
A preliminary program is provided below.
Download: Program Summer School 2024 (.pdf)
SUNDAY 22/9
12:00 - 13:30 Registration
13:30 - 14:00 Welcome
14:00 - 15:30 Introduction to Computational Chemistry (Dimitrios Pantazis)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:30 Introduction to ORCA (Frank Wennmohs) & ORCA practical
18:30 - 21:00 Dinner and welcome reception
MONDAY 23/9
09:00 - 10:30 Group Theory (Serena DeBeer)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Ligand Field Theory (Serena DeBeer)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:30 Optical Spectroscopy (Frank Neese)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00 X-ray Spectroscopy (Serena DeBeer)
18:30 - 21:00 Dinner & Poster Session
TUESDAY 24/9
09:00 - 10:30 Vibrational Spectroscopy (Maurice van Gastel)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Practical: Vibrational spectroscopy (Maurice van Gastel)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Practical: Excited State Spectroscopy
15:00 - 18:30 Practical (continued) and Facility Tours in Small Groups: Raman, UV-Vis RFQ/Stopped Flow, and X-ray Labs
18:30 - 21:00 Dinner and Poster Session
WEDNESDAY 25/9
09:00 - 10:30 Spin Hamiltonians (Frank Neese)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Magnetochemistry (Daniel SantaLucia)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 EPR Spectroscopy (Alexander Schnegg)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00 Practical: Magnetochemistry (Daniel SantaLucia)
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
THURSDAY 26/9
09:00 - 10:30 Practical: Simulation of EPR spectra (Alexander Schnegg & George Cutsail)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Practical: EPR calculations (Dimitrios Pantazis)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 MCD Spectroscopy (Frank Neese)
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 16:15 Mössbauer Spectroscopy (Daniel SantaLucia)
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 18:30 Practical: Mössbauer Spectroscopy (Daniel SantaLucia)
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
FRIDAY 28/9
09:00 - 11:30 Facility Tours in Small Groups: SQUID/MCD/Mössbauer, and EPR Labs
11:30 - 12:30 Open Q & A Session
12:30 - 13:00 Survey
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
15:00 Start of the Eckhard Bill Symposium
SATURDAY 29/9
Eckhard Bill Symposium (Part of the Summer School)
Detailed program will be announced soon.
Topics
- Introduction to Computational Chemistry
- Introduction to ORCA
- Group Theory
- Ligand Field Theory
- Optical Spectroscopy
- X-ray Spectroscopy
- Vibrational Spectroscopy
- Spin Hamiltonians
- Magnetochemistry
- EPR Spectroscopy
- MCD Spectroscopy
- Mössbauer Spectroscopy