NJAN Activity Seminar – The new path of physics and chemistry into the 21st century

On February 27th the JSPS Norway-Japan Academic Network (NJAN) will organize a seminar under the title “The new path of physics and chemistry into the 21st century”.

This event will be organized as a hybrid webinar. It will be open for in-person participation at the Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo (Norway), and also as a webinar symposium via Zoom.

Please register for the seminar through the following event page: https://www.mn.uio.no/hylleraas/english/news-and-events/events/events-in-oslo/2025/no-jp-seminar25.html

Program: 

9:00-9:05(CET) 17:00-17:05(JST) – Opening remarks

– Thomas Bondo Pedersen(Director at Hylleraas centre)

9:05-9:10(CET) 17:05-17:10(JST) – Fellowship information from JSPS Stockholm

9:10-9:40(CET) 17:10-17:40(JST) – Is relativistic quantum chemistry a good theory of everything?

– Pekka Pyykkö (Chemistry/University of Helsinki, FI)

9:40-10:10(CET) 17:40-18:10(JST) – Incorporating bioinspired Cu(I) complexes into MOFs for C-H activation

– Rafael Cortez Sgroi Pupo (Chemistry/ University of Oslo)

10:10-10:30(CET) 18:10-18:30(JST) – Break

10:30-11:00(CET) 18:30-19:00(JST) – The restricted variance optimization method: A Gaussian Process Regression based optimization procedure 

– Roland Lindh (Chemistry/Uppsala University SE)

11:00-11:30(CET) 19:00-19:30(JST) – Title TBA

– Thomas Bondo Pedersen (Chemistry/University of Oslo)

11:30-11:45(CET) 19:30-19:45(JST) – Break

11:45-12:25(CET) 19:45-20:25(JST) – Explicitly correlated effective Hamiltonian from projective transcorrelation

– Seiichiro Ten-no (Computer Systems/Kobe University JP)

12:25-12:30(CET) 20:25-20:30(JST) – Closing remarks