Twenty-Second International Workshop on
Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics and Biology (QSCP-XXII)
October 16-24, 2017
Hunan Province, P.R. China

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About QSCP-XXII

This workshop, like the previous QSCP meetings, will bring together chemists and physicists interested in quantum systems in molecular, nano and material sciences. Quantum biochemists and biophysicists are also welcome. Emphasis will be on relativistic quantum theory, many-body methodology, innovative conceptualization, computational realization, and novel applications.

The Workshop will include sessions on:

• Concepts and Methods in Quantum Chemistry (CMQC)
• Relativistic Effects in Quantum Chemistry (REQC)
• Molecular Structure, Dynamics, and Spectroscopy (MSDS)
• Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields (AMSF)
• Particles and Plasmas in Physics and Chemistry (PPPC)
• Reactive Collisions, Chemical Reactions, and Catalysis (RCCR)
• Complexes and Clusters; Surfaces and Interfaces (CCSI)
• Molecular and Nano Materials, Electronics and Biology (MNEB)
• Computational Chemistry, Physics and Biology (CCPB)
• NEW! Quantum Effects and Applications (QEA)

Important Deadlines

• Deadline 1: 2017/04/30 Early bird registration - see below.
• Deadline 2: 2017/08/01 Late registration - see below.

Mark up your calendars!

QSCP2017 will be hosted by the College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, the Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of the Ministry of Education and the Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications (SICQEA), Hunan Normal University.

QSCP-2017 will be located in Changsha, capital city of Hunan Province. We have arranged an optional tourist visit (both transport to and from the site, and hotel) to Zhangjiajie for all delegates who wish to go, starting on October 22nd 2017.

Information

Keynote Speakers

• Angela K. Wilson (Michigan, USA)
• Weitao Yang (North Carolina, USA)
• Rudolph A. Marcus (California, USA)
• Paul W. Ayers (Hamilton, Canada)
• Andreas Savin (Paris, France)
• Paul L.A. Popelier (Manchester, UK)
• Martin Quack (Zürich, Switzerland)
• Alia Tadjer (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Oleg Vasyutinskii (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Debashis Mukherjee (Calcutta, India)
• Nimrod Moiseyev (Haifa, Israel)
• Chao-Ping Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan)
• Akitomo Tachibana (Kyoto, Japan)
• Kwang S. Kim (Ulsan, South Korea)
• Wenjian Liu (Beijing, China)
• Marco A.C. Nascimento (Rio de Janeiro,Brazil)

Invited Speakers

International Scientific Committee

• Jean Maruani (Paris, France), Chair
• Erkki J. Brändas (Uppsala, Sweden)
• Gerardo Delgado-Barrio (Madrid, Spain)
• Chao-Ping Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan)
• Samantha Jenkins (Hunan, China)
• Steven R. Kirk (Hunan, China)
• Souad Lahmar (Carthage, Tunisia)
• Liliana Mammino (Venda, South Africa)
• M.A.C. Nascimento (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Boris Plakhutin (Novosibirsk, Russia)
• Alia Tadjer (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Weitao Yang (Duke, USA)
• Yan A. Wang (Vancouver, Canada)
• Angela Wilson (Michigan, USA)
• Stephen Wilson (Oxford, UK)

Honorary Committee

• Roy McWeeny (Pisa, Italy)
• Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Kyoto, Japan)
• Oleg Vasyutinskii (St Petersburg, Russia)

Local Organizing Committee

• Samantha Jenkins (Changsha)
• Steven R. Kirk (Changsha)
• Jianxin Song(Changsha)
• Gang Ouyang(Changsha)
• Xianhui Zhong(Changsha)
• Tianlu Xu (Changsha)
• Dongsheng Tang(Changsha)
• Aqiong Liao [Aileena] (Changsha)
• Chenhui Liu [Amy] (Changsha)
• Chunying Rong (Changsha)
• Ghuanghui Zhou (Changsha)

CMOA Prize

NOTE: IF YOU WISH TO REGISTER FOR QSCP-2017 ONLY, PLEASE SPECIFY THIS IN YOUR REGISTRATION!

Medical, accident and liability insurance is not included in the registration fees. QSCP participants should make sure that they are fully insured from their own home institution. Participants who would need an invitation letter for visa application or other purposes should contact the Organizing Committee.

Travel

PLEASE NOTE: We intend to arrange for delegates to be met at railway stations and the airport, and accompanied to these travel hubs when leaving Changsha. Please make sure that you have sent your arrival and departure details to Professor Jenkins.

• Travel to China

  Visas:

  
  

  A Visitor visa is strongly recommended. Visa requirements can be checked on sites like the SKYTEAM Visa, Passport & Health Requirements page, which accesses the IATA TIMATIC database used by airlines and travel agents. If you require an invitation letter, please contact Professor Samantha Jenkins at the email address given at the top of this page.

  Additional contact details for visa application purposes are:

  Xu Tianlyu,
  College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
  Hunan Normal University, 36 Lushan Lu, Yuelu Qu,
  410081 Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China.
  Phone: +86 180 7316 9990
  
  Yongxing Zou,
  College of Physics and Information Science,
  Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of Ministry of Education,
  Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications (SICQEA),
  Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China.
  Phone: +86 13574812039
  
  Prof. Samantha Jenkins,
  College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
  Hunan Normal University, 36 Lushan Lu, Yuelu Qu,
  410081 Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China.
  Phone: +86 15111468042
  

• Travel within China

  • By air

    Incoming flights arrive at Changsha HuangHua international airport (CSX). Options for travel into the city include:

    • Maglev train: There is a maglev train service linking the airport to the Changsha South (ChangShaNan) railway station, from which other options are available (metro, etc.)
    • Shuttle bus: A shuttle service (for details, see the Whats's New in Changsha website) runs regularly from the airport to the Civil Aviation Hotel, close to the central train station in the center of Changsha. From there, available options are buses (there is a bus station beside the central train station), metro (line 2) or taxi.

  • By rail

    
    

    Changsha is on the main Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed train (gaotie)line (the high-speed train station is Changsha South (ChangShaNan) ). Train tickets can be bought:

    • At a high-speed rail station in another city

      Tickets for the high-speed 'G' trains (gaotie) or slightly slower 'D' trains can be bought at ticket counters at stations (stations in some of the biggest Chinese cities may have an English-speaking ticket counter).

      • From Beijing, high-speed trains to Changsha operate from the Beijing West station
      • From Shanghai, high-speed trains operate from Shanghai Hongqiao Station (near Shanghai Hongqiao [SHA] airport, in the east of the city). A lot of international flights to Shanghai land in Shanghai Pudong airport [PVG] (west of the city) which is all the way on the other side of the city. There is a metro line that joins the two airports but anticipate at least two hours to get from one side of Shanghai to the other by this route.
      • From Guangzhou, high-speed trains operate from Guangzhou South Station.
    • Online (web sites or phone apps) A number of websites sell high-speed train tickets online. For example, to book high-speed trains on the online travel agent CTrip, where trains can be securely booked and paid for using, for example, Western credit cards, first select 'Trains', then enter the desired starting point and destination and date, then select the 'High-speed trains' filter to check availability. Once successfully ordered and confirmed, there are several ways to pick up the tickets :
      1. Ask for the tickets to be mailed to you (ask, e.g. CTrip about this),
      2. Ask for the tickets to be mailed to a hotel in, e.g. Beijing or Shanghai, where you may be stopping over before travelling on to Changsha (after checking that the hotel can keep the tickets and give them to you on your arrival there),
      3. Ask CTrip for E-tickets, then take the E-ticket codes to the ticket collection office in the relevant high-speed train station. This can be done by presenting the ticket reference number, together with a passport for ID purposes, at specially-labelled ticket counters (these counters have the characters '护照', passport, written on them).

    NOTE: Conventional (much slower) trains stop at Changsha Central Station, not Changsha South Station.

    
    

  When you arrive by rail in Changsha, there are several options to travel to the central part of the city and the conference venue. One of these is the metro system. Changsha South Railway station is on the city metro line 2 (see map).

  

  

Venue

You can also download static PDF maps of the area around the hotel (English, Chinese) and an overview of the location of the hotel within Changsha.

• By metro: The venue, the Changsha South high-speed railway (GaoTie) station, the central city railway station and the main metro interchange can all be reached using Changsha metro line 2. The closest metro stop to the venue is Jinxing Road.Leave the metro station using exit 3 (see map above) and walk/take a taxi 1 km north to the venue.
• By taxi (show the taxi driver the address: 247 Jinxing Middle Road, Yuelu District, Changsha : 金星中路247号). Taxi fares are approximately 1.8 RMB/km.

You can click on any of the photos below to see a larger version

Other Sources of Information

• WikiVoyage - China
• WikiVoyage - Hunan Province
• What's New in Changsha - Changsha News, events and information in English This is an excellent general (and travel) guide to Changsha.
• Travel China Guide: Hunan Travel Guide
• Wikipedia article on Zhangjiajie
• Zhangjiajie Hehua International Airport (DYG)
• Zhangjiajie Transportation

Info:

• Helpers: Conference helpers may be found at the conference itself, the airport and the high-speed railway station. They may be easily identified by this T-shirt.

  
  

• If you are not a Chinese speaker, you may find it useful to download and install a translator app on a portable device (Android/iOS, etc.), e.g. Microsoft Translator, before entering China. Most translator apps allow you to download and install 'offline translation dictionaries' - these are highly recommended and very useful, because they will work even without a phone data connection or Internet connection. Some of these apps have text recognition features, allowing you to point your device camera at some text and get an instant translation. Others also have voice recognition features. It is generally also a good idea to install a Chinese keyboard (input method IME) on your device alongside your existing language keyboard: this could make it easier for Chinese speakers to type any replies to queries or information into the translator app.

• In any files used for presentations, please make sure the files are saved with embedded fonts. This helps to reduce problems associated with required mathematical/non-English characters not being present on the computer used for the presentation.

Accommodation:

• Changsha Accomodation

  We have booked a block of rooms in the venue hotel (Jinxing International Hui Hotel, website). Delegates can pay on arrival unless otherwise arranged. The hotel accepts Visa and MasterCard credit cards.

  All the lectures and the banquet will also take place at this hotel.

  We have reserved two room types:

  • ROOM OPTION A: 638RMB/day includes breakfast and buffet lunch.
  • ROOM OPTION B: 456RMB/day includes breakfast and buffet lunch.

  Dinner buffet is 168RMB per meal.

  Please send ALL of the following information by email to Tianlü xutl@hunnu.edu.cn:

  1. Your full name *exactly* as it appears on your passport
  2. Your Passport number
  3. Your flight number or train number when you have booked
  4. Your arrival date
  5. Your departure date
  6. Your choice of room; OPTION A or OPTION B.

Activities

During the conference, we will arrange a trip to the World Heritage site at Zhangjiajie. Participation in this trip is entirely voluntary.

There are two different versions of the trip: please see the information in the PDF files for prices and event details.

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Trip 1 details AMENDED 2017/10/20 (click here for PDF)

Trip 2 details (click here for PDF)