2014 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2014

Session

(R-PLEN) Plenary Session - Jim Chelikowsky, U. of Texas at Austin - Session plénière

R-PLEN

19 Jun 2014, 11:45

Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne

399. Addressing Dirac's Challenge: Developing Practical Quantum Mechanics to Predict Properties of Materials

James R. Chelikowsky (University of Texas at Austin)

19/06/2014, 11:45

Herzberg Public, Plenary, and Medal Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg, plénières et médaillés (CAP-ACP)

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénier

Over eight decades ago, after the invention of quantum mechanics, P. A. M. Dirac made the following observation: "The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It...