Theoretical Chemistry

On September 3rd, 2008 (during the 20th International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy) in Prague, Czech Republic, Per Jensen (Wuppertal) was awarded the Ioannes Marcus Marci Medal by the Ioannes Marcus Marci Spectroscopic Society for "his contributions to molecular symmetry and theoretical spectroscopy as well as for his activities for the Prague conference."

The January 2006 issue of "Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries" lists what its editorial staff considers to be its 682 "Outstanding Academic Titles 2005." These have been chosen from among the 6964 books and electronic resources reviewed by Choice during 2005. The book "Fundamentals of Molecular Symmetry", by Philip R. Bunker (Ottawa) and Per Jensen (Wuppertal), is on this list. To quote Choice: "These outstanding titles have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as important - often the first - treatment of their subject." They further say that these titles comprise "less than 3% of the 23000+ titles submitted to Choice during this period" and that the Outstanding Academic Titles are truly the "best of the best."

The Marie Curie Research Training Network QUASAAR (QUAntitative Spectroscopy for Atmospheric and Astrophysical Research), coordinated by Per Jensen, started on March 1st, 2005. It comprises 14 research groups in 13 different institutions in nine different countries and will run for four years. It is financed by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Research Programme of the European Union. QUASAAR offers 464 person-months of employment for young researchers. Click here for more information.

The new book by P. R. Bunker and Per Jensen, "Fundamentals of Molecular Symmetry", has been published by IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK, in November 2004. The book-publishing part of IOP Publishing has recently been taken over by Taylor and Francis. Click here for the Taylor and Francis presentation of the book. Click here to see the amazon.com presentation of the book.

A Russian translation [by Drs. Yurii N. Panchenko, Sergei V. Petrov, Vladimir I. Pupyshev, Andrei V. Scherbinin, and Prof. Nikolai F. Stepanov (editor)] of P. R. Bunker and Per Jensen: "Molecular Symmetry and Spectroscopy, 2nd Edition," NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 1998 (ISBN 0-660-17519-3), has been published by MIR, Moscow, in May 2004.

Tina Erica Odaka from Tokyo, Japan, Ph.D. student in theoretical chemistry, has won the 2003 DAAD prize as best foreign student at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal.

Per Jensen (Wuppertal), Tina Erica Odaka (Wuppertal), W. P. Kraemer (Garching near Munich, Germany) T. Hirano (Tokyo, Japan), and P. R. Bunker (Ottawa, Canada) have been awarded the "Sir Harold Thompson Memorial Award 2002" for their publication "The Renner Effect in Triatomic Molecules with Application to CH₂⁺, MgNC and NH₂", Spectrochimica Acta Part A 58, 763-794 (2002).

• Theoretical spectroscopy (Prof. Per Jensen, Ph.D)
• Boron clusters and nanotubes (Priv. Doz. Dr. Ihsan Boustani)
• Electronic structure calculations (Prof. em. Robert J. Buenker, Ph.D)
  

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We also host on this server the home page for the 20th International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy. This conference is a meeting between experimentalists and theoreticians in the wide field of molecular spectroscopy. It takes place every second year in an Eastern or Central European country. In 2008 it took place in Prague, Czech Republic, and in 2010 it will take place in Poznań, Poland.

Further, we host the homepage of SPHERS (Spectroscopy of Highly Excited Rovibrational States), a research training network supported by the European Commission in the framework of the programme "Improving the Human Research Potential and the Socio-Economic Knowledge Base" within the 5th Framework Research Programme of the European Union. It was established in September 2000 and ran for a total of three years.

We also host the homepage of QUASAAR (QUAntitative Spectroscopy for Atmospheric and Astrophysical Research), a Marie Curie Research Training Network supported by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Research Programme of the European Union. It was established in March 2005 and ran for a total of four years.

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