Scope

The XIIth International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (XII-ICQC2006) will be held at Kyoto, May 21-26, 2006, organized under the auspices of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. The congress site is Kyoto TERRSA, which is located south close to Kyoto Station.

The Congress is held every three years and brings together scientists from all over the world. The first one was arranged 1973 at Menton (the headquarter of the Academy). Further sites were New Orleans, Kyoto, Uppsala, Montreal, Jerusalem, Menton, Prague, Atlanta, Menton, and Bonn. Major goals of the Congress are to provide an overview of recent novel developments, advances and directions of research in the broad area of quantum molecular sciences as well as to establish interaction between the theoretical discipline of quantum molecular science and experiment. Topics to be discussed cover a broad range of fields, from the development of fundamental methodologies to applications in a wide area of chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology and molecular and solid state physics.






Activities

The Congress will consist of plenary lectures, a series of invited lectures and poster sessions. The invited lectures will cover a broad range of fields in the discipline, from fundamental methodologies to applications. The participants will have the possibility to attend all lectures, and there will be no parallel sessions.

Contributed papers will be accepted as posters.
  • Registration
  • Opening Ceremony
  • Plenary Lectures
  • Welcome reception
  • Invited Lectures: One session (no parallel session)
  • Poster Session
  • Conference Excursion (Kyoto tour)
  • Conference Banquet
  • Accompanying person's program, excursion, etc. (Flower arrangement, Tea ceremony, Shodo (Japanese Calligraphy), Origami etc. would be arranged by TERRSA.)



Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair
Saburo Nagakura (Tokyo)
Chair
Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Kyoto)
Co-chair
Kimihiko Hirao (Tokyo)
Shigeki Kato (Kyoto)
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Kazunaka Endo (Kanazawa)
Yuichi Fujimura (Sendai)
Masahiko Hada (Tokyo)
Suehiro Iwata (Hiroshima)
Kazuo Kitaura (Tsukuba)
Shigeru Nagase (IMS)
Hiromi Nakai (Tokyo)
Hiroki Nakamura (IMS)
Iwao Ohmine (Nagoya)
Koichi Ohno (Sendai)
Shigeyoshi Sakaki (Kyoto)
Kazuo Takatsuka (Tokyo)
Takeji Takui (Osaka)
Kiyoshi Tanaka (Tokyo)
Kizashi Yamaguchi (Osaka)
Koichi Yamashita (Tokyo)



Local Committee
Chair
Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Kyoto)
Co-chair
Shigeki Kato (Kyoto)
Shigeyoshi Sakaki (Kyoto)
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Masahiro Ehara (Kyoto)
Jun-ya Hasegawa (Kyoto)
Kazuo Kitaura (Tsukuba)
Shigeru Nagase (IMS)
Takeji Takui (Osaka)
Kizashi Yamaguchi (Osaka)




Web Site and Correspondence
Formal Web site of the XIIth ICQC 2006 in Kyoto is
http://www.sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/XII-ICQC2006/


All correspondence concerning the Congress should be addressed to:


Hiroshi Nakatsuji, XII-ICQC2006
Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry
Graduate School of Engineering
Kyoto University
Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510
Japan
e-mail: ICQC2006@sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Fax:    +81-75-383-2739




Congress Site and Date

Congress Site: Kyoto TERRSA (http://www.kyoto-terrsa.or.jp)
Date: May 21 (Sunday afternoon) - May 26 (Friday), 2006










Location

15 min. walk from JR Kyoto Station;
5 min. walk from subway station (Kujyo);
5 min. walk from Kintetsu Railway station (Toji);
next to the bus stop (Kujyo Shako)





Floor maps



Climate and Clothing


May is usually a pleasant month before rainy season and summer. Early summer clothes are recommended. Nevertheless there may be exceptions: it can also rain and be colder than expected.

The temperature in May is about 25 ºC (77 ºF).