The organising committee is pleased to announce

The Inaugural Lennard-Jones Centre Meeting: Theory and Molecular Simulation in the Physical Sciences

to be held in Cambridge, UK from 4th to 8th September 2023.

The meeting web site can be found here.

The Lennard-Jones Centre provides a focus for interdisciplinary work in the physical sciences, with active participants from chemistry, physics, materials, mathematics and engineering. The Centre is named after Sir John Lennard-Jones, who held the first chair of theoretical chemistry in the United Kingdom, and pioneered computation.  

The Inaugural meeting will focus on theory and simulation, including: 

Energy Landscapes

Machine Learning 

Electronic Structure and Quantum Dynamics

Classical and Quantum Statistical Mechanics

Quantum Computing

One session will be dedicated to Roy Johnston, in memoriam.

The Provisional Speakers are:

Prof. Biman Bagchi, Indian Institute of Science

Prof. Michele Ceriotti, EPFL

Prof. Dwaipayan Chakrabarti, University of Birmingham

Dr Bingqing Cheng, IST Austria

Prof. Cecilia Clementi, FU Berlin

Prof. Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, University of Cambridge

Prof. Dame Clare Grey, University of Cambridge

Prof. Martin Head-Gordon, UC Berkeley

Prof. Teresa Head-Gordon, UC Berkeley

Prof. Kersti Hermansson, Uppsala University

Dr Jerelle Joseph, Princeton University

Prof. Frank Noe, FU Berlin

Dr Anna Peacock, University of Birmingham

Prof. Karsten Reuter, FHI Berlin

Prof. Richard Saykally, Berkeley

Prof. Birgit Strodel, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf

Prof. Peter Wolynes, Rice University

Linnett Lecturers: Prof. Richard Saykally, and Prof. Peter Wolynes

The schedule has provision for six contributed talks, and there will also be poster sessions. If you would like to contribute a talk or a poster, please send us the title and abstract, and specify whether your contribution could be a talk, a poster, or both. The conference email contact is Lisa Masters, [email protected]

Registration, covering lunch for five days, conference dinner and a barbecue, is £380 pounds for academia, £800 pounds for industry.

Accommodation in Downing College will cost £705 pounds for five nights, which includes breakfast.

To register and to book accommodation, please follow the links from the meeting web site.

Lead of Committee: David Wales

Local Committee: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, Stephen Cox, Gábor Csányi, Venkat Kapil, Chris Pickard and Chuck Witt

Local contact: Lisa Masters