Dear colleagues:
近年來，越來越多實驗室採用量化計算輔助研究工作，計算化學的領域蓬勃發展，使用者和程式發展者之間的交流也就越重要。通過交流獲合作，更有可能獲得嶄新的資訊，將研究工作提升到能與國際競爭的層次。Q-Chem量化計算軟體，在台灣有兩個實驗室參與程式發展。透過國網中心、台灣大學、中央研究院和Q-Chem的支持，很高興在此宣布Q-Chem 量子化學計算課程即將舉辦。
在這個一天的課程中，于建國教授（北京師範大學化學學院）與孔靜博士（Q-Chem公司總裁）將介紹Q-Chem4.0的基本使用與新功能，梁萬珍教授（中國科技大學化學物理系）、蔡政達教授（台灣大學物理系）和許昭萍教授（中央研究院化學所）將介紹他們跟Q-Chem有關的工作，並將提供操作實例。
許昭萍
蔡政達
Dear All,
Computational chemistry has becoming increasingly important in chemistry in chemistry. Given the number of computational chemists in Taiwan, and the increasing number of experimental groups that start doing computation along with their experimental works, it will become more and more important to connect users and developers in order to perform cutting-edge work. Q-Chem is a quantum chemistry software package that has two developer groups in Taiwan. Therefore, we feel it is important to hold a Q-Chem workshop, hoping to increase the communication or even collaboration between developers and users in the area of quantum chemistry computation, and eventually benefit our chemistry research community.
The workshop will highlight some of the features in the new Q-Chem 4.0 software package. Professors Wanzhen Liang (Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China), Jeng-Da Chai (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University) and Chao-Ping Hsu (Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica) will give short lectures on the unique functionalities they have developed followed by application examples. Dr. Jing Kong (CEO, Q-Chem Inc.) and Prof. Jianguo Yu (College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University) will lead a hand-on workshop that allows uses to run and test for the new functions.
Q-Chem 4.0's significant new functionalities include:
- TD-DFT analytic gradient and Hessian for excited-state structure
optimization;
- IRC searches for mapping complicated potential energy surfaces;
- Range-separated and dispersion-corrected DFT functionals;
- Faster algorithms for DFT, HF and coupled-cluster calculations;
- More choices for excited-state, solvation and charge-transfer calculations;
- Effective Fragment Potential and QM/MM for treating large systems;
- Maximum Overlap Method for excited-state calculations of large systems;
- Intracules for analysis of two-electron properties;
- Shared-memory for multicore systems and implementations for GPUs;
- as well as many other areas.
At the workshop, Dr. Jing Kong, CEO & Chief Scientist from Q-Chem Inc., will present the new
features in Q-Chem 4.0 and demonstrate the usage of Q-Chem through hands-on tutorials. Q-Chem
offers a 6-month license to the participants of the workshop.
Happy Computing,
Chao-Ping Hsu and Jeng-Da Chai
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