COMPThursday, August 23, 2007

9:00 AM-12:10 PM BCEC -- 160B, Oral
Bold Predictions in Theoretical Chemistry: A Symposium in Honor of One of the Boldest, Bill Goddard, on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday
Theory
Organizer:Emily A. Carter
Official:Mark S. Gordon
9:00 AMNew density functionals for making bold predictions
Donald G. Truhlar, Yan Zhao
9:35 AMIs the band gap problem truly a problem: Defects in semiconductors
Peter A. Schultz
10:10 AMDensity functional theory with accurate bond-breaking and band-gaps using generalized valence bond wave functions via the optimized effective potential method
Richard P Muller
10:45 AMIntermission
11:00 AMAccurate density functionals addressing the self-interaction error and potential functional formalism
Aron J. Cohen, Paula Mori-Sánchez, Tim Heaton-Burgess, Felipe A. Bulat, Weitao Yang
11:35 AMTDDFT studies of resonance Raman processes: Understanding SERS
Lasse Jensen, Christine M. Aikens, George C. Schatz

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007