Opening Session (2:00 – 4:00 p.m.)
Presider: Christine Aikens

2:00 p.m. Important concepts and computational methods in chemical dynamics
Donald Truhlar

2:40 p.m. Quantum Chemistry and Computer Science: A Tightly Connected Parallel Development
Fritz Schaefer

3:20 p.m. Ab initio and density functional approaches across the periodic table: From basis sets to composites
Angela Wilson

Bonding and MO Theory (4:30 – 6:30 p.m.)
Presider: Hrant Hratchian

4:30 p.m. From Electrons and Nuclei to Atoms and Bonds
Klaus Ruedenberg

5:10 p.m. Understanding intermolecular interactions and chemical bonding via energy decomposition analysis
Martin Head-Gordon

5:50 p.m. Beyond MO Theory: SCGVB Theory of the Electronic Structure of Molecules
Thom Dunning

Evening Session (7:00 – 9:00 p.m.)
Presider: Yihan Shao

7:00 p.m. Avoiding integrals in quantum chemical calculations
Peter Gill

7:40 p.m. From energy-domain to time-domain in quantum chemistry: Nonadiabatic electron dynamics
Kazuo Takatsuka

8:20 p.m. Free-complement theory for solving the Schrödinger equation of atoms and molecules
Hiroshi Nakatsuji

Tentative Evening “Reception” (9:00 – 10:00 p.m.) TBA

Bonding and Molecular Properties (10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
Presider: Eugene DePrince

10:30 a.m. Chemical Bonding and Valence
Gernot Frenking

11:10 a.m. The Mysteries of Chirality, Solvation, and Optical Activity
T. Daniel Crawford

11:50 a.m. Computational Analysis of NMR Chemical Shift: Relationship to Bonding
Odile Eisenstein

Potential Energy Surface Exploration (2:00 – 4:00 p.m.)
Presider: Emilie Guidez

2:00 p.m. Analytical derivatives in quantum chemistry
Peter Pulay

2:40 p.m. Exploring Molecular Potential Energy Surfaces Using Energy Derivatives
H. B. Schlegel

3:20 p.m. Pericyclic transition states and energies of concert
Kendall Houk

DFT and NEO-DFT (4:30 – 6:30 p.m.)
Presider: Fang Liu

4:30 p.m. A Density-Functional Model of London Dispersion
Erin Johnson

5:10 p.m. Density Functional Theory: Correcting Systematic Errors and Predicting
Photoemission and Photoexcitation Spectroscopy from Ground State Calculations
Weitao Yang

5:50 p.m. Nuclear-electronic orbital methods in quantum chemistry
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Amazing Applications (10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
Presider: Devin Matthews

10:30 a.m. Oriented Electric Fields as Future Smart Reagents in Chemistry
Sason Shaik

11:10 a.m. Ab initio predictions with chemical accuracy for heterogeneous catalysis and adsorption
Joachim Sauer

11:50 a.m. Using quantum chemistry to describe plasmonic excited states
George Schatz

Large Systems and Embedding (2:00 – 4:00 p.m.)
Presider: Joshua Kretchmer

2:00 p.m. Enabling accurate calculations on large molecular systems
Mark Gordon

2:40 p.m. Quantum chemistry off the beaten path
Emily Carter

3:20 p.m. Embedding theories for quantum simulations on hybrid classical-quantum architectures
Giulia Galli

Multireference Methods (10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
Presider: Ramón Miranda Quintana

10:30 a.m. Electronic Structure Challenges for Strongly Correlated Systems
Laura Gagliardi

11:10 a.m. Taming strong correlation by flipping one spin at a time
Anna Krylov

11:50 a.m. New Wavefunction Forms for Describing Multireference Systems: Why, How, and What Next?
Paul Ayers

Many-Body and Machine Learning Methods (2:00 – 4:00 p.m.)
Presider: Lan Cheng

2:00 p.m. Coupled cluster revolution
Rodney Bartlett

2:40 p.m. Efficient Reduced-Scaling Many-Body Electronic Structure Methods
Edward Valeev

3:20 p.m. Ab initio based deep neural network simulations of aqueous TiO 2 interfaces
Annabella Selloni