On behalf of the organizing committee, I am pleased to announce the

XXIVth International Symposium on the Jahn-Teller Effect

Electron-vibration phenomena in molecules and solids:
Symmetry breaking and beyond

24th-29th June 2018, Santander (Spain)

https://www.electronvibrational-jt18.unican.es

The symposium addresses experimental observation, theoretical modeling, and computer simulation of physical and chemical phenomena associated with strongly correlated electronic and nuclear motions. The strong vibronic coupling influences a variety of molecular and solid state properties including spectroscopy, photochemistry, ferroelectricity and multiferroicity, charge and energy transport, superconductivity, molecular magnetism and a number of other fields. The conference is designed as a multidisciplinary meeting of physicists, chemists, and material scientists with experimental, computational, or theoretical backgrounds in this field. Organized by topics and given by key researchers, invited talks will provide a panoramic view of the current and most important problems in this field.

Begun in 1976, these symposia have historically focused on the coupling between electronic and nuclear motions in molecules and solids under conditions of electronic degeneracy and pseudodegeneracy, when the Jahn-Teller and Pseudo Jahn-Teller effects are operative. More recently, the scope has expanded into a broader range of strong vibronic and electron-phonon couplings that influence a vast range of physical and chemical phenomena. This symposium intends to further enrich this field by involving novel modeling concepts, and to benefit from insight gained by its interdisciplinary nature.

Pablo Garcia-Fernandez
Local organizer of JT18