Previous editions

2024 (November 25 - 29)

Prof. dr. Evgeny Pidko Computational spectroscopy and catalysis
3 hours
Lecture slides
Prof. dr. Jun Huang Theory of Electrochemical Interfaces: Classical, Quantum, and A Middle Way
5 hours
Lectures slides 1/2
Lecture slides 2/2
Dr. ir. Menno Bokdam Accelarating first-principles based molecular dynamics simulations with machine learning
5 hours
Lecture slides Machine Learning
Exercise Neural Network
Prof. dr. ir. Ivo Filot From Basics to Precision: Crafting a Plane-Wave DFT Code in Python
9 hours
Lecture slides
Exercises
PW-DFT program in Python
Exercise source files
Adarsh Kalikadien Open Bidentate Ligand eXplorer (OBeLiX) workflow
2 hours
Obelix tutorial
Lecture slides

2023 (November 27 - December 01)

Dr. ir. Ivo Filot Unitary transformations in single-determinant electronic structure theory
6 hours + 3 hours (workshop)
Lecture slides
Jupyter Notebook 1
Jupyter Notebook 2
README
Dr. Thanja Lamberts Surface astrochemistry: the role of computational chemistry
5 hours
Lecture slides
Problem set
Prof. dr. Claudia Filippi Introduction to Quantum Monte-Carlo methods
5 hours
Lecture slides 1/2
Lecture slides 2/2
Dr. Laura Filion Machine learning in soft matter
5 hours

2022 (November 28 - December 02)

Dr. Tijs Karman Cold molecules
5 hours
Lecture slides
Derivation
Dr. ir. Gilles de Wijs The PAW method for solid state electronic structure calculations and extensions to calculate NMR properties (in VASP).
5 hours
Lectures slides
Prof. dr. rer. nat. Georg Held Introduction to Soft X-ray Spectroscopies
5 hours
Lecture slides
Exercises
Workouts
Prof. dr. Geert-Jan Kroes The specific reaction parameter approach to density functional theory: First principles and semi-empirical implementations for dissociative chemisorption on metals.
5 hours
Lecture slides
Dr. ir. Ivo Filot Density Functional Theory from Scratch
4 hours
Lectures slides

2021 (November 29 - December 03)

Dr. Shuxia Tao Modelling solid state systems: from electronic structure methods to reactive molecular dynamics
5 hours
lecture slides
Dr. Ing. Aayan Banerjee From benchtop experiments to industrial systems: an introduction to transport phenomena, reaction engineering and multi-scale modelling
5 hours
lecture slides
Dr. Kristof Bal Studying rare events in molecular dynamics simulations: from free energies to mechanistic insights
5 hours
lecture slides
Dr. Jörg Meyer Machine learning in computational chemistry: fundamentals and applications
5 hours
lecture slides 01
lecture slides 02
lecture slides 03
additional information
Dr. ir. Ivo Filot Building your own Hartree-Fock program from scratch
4 hours
lecture slides
additional information

2019 (November 25 - 29)

Prof. Dr. Ellen Backus Static, 2D-, and time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy in bulk and at interfaces
5 hours
lectures
notes
Dr. Klaas Giesbertz Density [matrix] functional theory
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
Prof. Dr. Herma Cuppen Introduction in Astrochemistry
5 hours
Prof. Dr. Jean-Sébastien Caux From Path Integrals to Field Theory
5 hours
lectures
Prof. Dr. Titus van Erp Transition Path Sampling methods
2 hours
lectures
Dr. Bernd Ensing Path collective variables to find reaction mechanisms
2 hours
lectures

2018 (December 10 - 14)

Dr. Shirin Faraji Excited-state non-adiabatic dynamics
5 hours
lectures
Dr. Jörg Meyer Machine learning in computational chemistry: foundations and applications
5 hours + hands-on computer practicum
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
practicum
Dr. Elizabeth von Hauff Hybrid solar energy conversion
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
Dr. Tijs Karman Molecular quantum scattering
5 hours
lecture
Dr. Bernd Ensing Introduction to correlation, Kirkwood-Buff theory, Green's functions, and Onsager's regression theory
4 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
lecture 4

2017 (December 11 - 15)

Dr. Gilles de Wijs Electronic structure calculations for solids with application to NMR spectroscopy
4 hours
lectures
Dr. Ludo Juurlink Application of spectroscopic and related techniques in surface science for unravelling heterogeneously catalyzed reaction mechanisms - background and recent examples
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
lecture 4
Dr. Ivo Filot How to write your own ab initio electronic structure program
5 hours + hands-on computer practicum
lectures
exercises
HF code
Dr. Annemieke Petrignani cancelled
4 hours
Dr. Bernd Ensing Nuclear quantum dynamics simulation
4 hours
lectures

2016 (December 12 - 16)

Dr. Gert van der Zwan Irreversibility
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
lecture 4
Prof. dr. Jos Oomens Laser spectroscopy combined with mass spectrometry
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
Dr. Ivo Filot Microkinetics
5 hours
Prof. Dr. Luuk Visscher Post Hartree Fock correlation methods
5 hours
lecture 1
notes 2
notes 3
exercises 1
solution 1
solution 2
Dr. Bernd Ensing Theory of solvent effects
4 hours
lectures

2015 (December 07 - 11)

Prof. An Ghysels On Normal Modes, Diffusion, and liquid structure
5 hours
Dr. Geert Brocks Graphene and other 2D materials
5 hours
notes
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
lecture 4
lecture 5
Prof. Moniek Tromp cancelled
5 hours
Dr. Rosa Bulo Mixed quantum mechanical and classical modeling of complex atomic systems
5 hours
Dr. Bernd Ensing Kramers theory of reaction kinetics & Integrators and Rare Events
4 + 3 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2

2014 (December 08 - 12)

Prof. Wim Briels Statistical physics and linear response theory
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
Prof. Gerrit C. Groenenboom Diatomic molecules
5 hours
lecture 1
Prof. Evert Jan Baerends Density functional theory and its time-dependent extension
5 hours
lectures
Prof. Wybren Jan Buma "Light on electronically excited states: riding the roller coaster"
5 hours
lectures
Dr. Bernd Ensing Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics
4 hours
lectures

2013 (December 09 - 13)

Prof. Michel Orrit Single-molecule and single-nanoparticle optical spectroscopy
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
Dr. Paola Gori-Giorgi Density Functional Theory of strongly correlated systems
5 hours
lecture 1
Prof. Marc Koper Electron transfer and electrocatalysis
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
Dr. Yves Rezus Nonlinear infrared spectroscopy
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
lecture 4
Dr. Bernd Ensing Transition path theory
4 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2

2012 (December 10 - 14)

Prof. Ad van der Avoird Noncovalent interactions between molecules and the spectra of weakly bound molecular clusters
5 hours
lectures
Prof. Benoît Champagne Quantum Chemistry Methods for Predicting and Interpreting Non-Linear Optical Properties
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
Dr. Anouk Rijs Gas-Phase IR Spectroscopy: towards large (bio)molecules and far-IR wavelengths
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
Dr Gerrit Groenhof Excited state dynamics
5 hours
lectures
Dr. Bernd Ensing QM/MM and other multiscale modeling methods
4 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2

2011 (December 12 - 16)

Prof. Wim Briels Relativity and gravitation
5 hours
lectures
Prof. Luuk Visscher Diracs equation and other prerequisites for achieving high accuracy in quantum chemistry
5 hours
lectures
Prof. Claudia Filippi Solving the Schrödinger equation with random walks: Introduction to quantum Monte Carlo methods
5 hours
lectures
Prof. Marloes Groot Spectroscopy on photoactive proteins
5 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
Dr. Bernd Ensing Electrochemistry and simulation of charge transfer reactions
4 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2

2010 (December 06 - 10)

Prof. Dr. Ria Broer Electronic structure methods for solids
6 hours
Prof. Dr. Frank de Groot Theoretical and experimental aspects of X-ray spectroscopy
6 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2
lecture 3
Dr. Francesco Buda Ab initio molecular dynamics: ground and excited states
4 hours
lectures
Dr. Johan Padding Statistical mechanics of liquids
6 hours
slides
handouts
Dr. Bernd Ensing Free energy methods
4 hours
lecture 1
lecture 2

2009 (December 07 - 11)

Dr. Meta van Faassen Electron-molecule scattering
6 hours
lecture I
Lecture II
Dr. Johannes Neugebauer Subsystem quantum chemistry
6 hours
Lecture notes
Dr. ir. Gerrit C. Groenenboom Excitation energy transfer
4 hours
presentation
Excitation energy transfer website with references
Dr. Huib Bakker Nonlinear infrared spectroscopy
4 hours
Lecture notes
Dr. Thomas la Cour Jansen Two- dimensional spectroscopy
6 hours
lecture notes
presentation

2008 (December 15 - 19)

Prof. dr. Evert Jan Baerends Density functional theory
6 hours
Lecture1.pdf
Lecture2.pdf
Prof. dr. Michel Orrit Single molecule optics
4 hours
lecture1.ppt
lecture2.ppt
Dr. ir. Gerrit C. Groenenboom Ultracold chemistry
4 hours
lecture.pdf
Prof. dr. Peter G. Bolhuis Molecular rare event simulations
6 hours
lecture1.pdf
lecture2.pdf
lecture3.pdf
Dr. Herma M. Cuppen Kinetic modeling of interstellar chemistry
6 hours
lecture.pdf

2007 (December 10 - 04)

Prof. Dr. ir. Ad van der Avoird Ab initio force fields for non-covalent interactions
4 hours
part1.pdf
part2.pdf
part3.pdf
part4.pdf
Dr. Joop H. van Lenthe The valence bond method
6 hours
I-Begin.pdf
II-Formulas.pdf
III-Orbital-opt.pdf
IV-Bent-Benzene.pdf
V-VB-ICF-BSSE.pdf
VI-Meaning-structures.pdf
VII-resonance-aromaticit.pdf
VIII-Pyrenes.pdf
IX-O2-short.pdf
X-Problems.pdf
Prof. Dr. Laurens D. A. Siebbeles Charge mobility on polymers
4 hours
Lecture notes
figures
Polymers
DNA
Prof. Dr. Michael Filatov Post-SCF electron correlation methods
6 hours
Prof. Dr. Wim J. Briels Statistical physics, coarse graining and stochastic simulations
6 hours

2006 (December 04 - 08)

Dr. Roar Olsen Classical and quantum transition state theory
6 hours
TSTAndQTSTAndTSLectures.pdf
Prof. Wim Ubachs Phenomena in diatomic molecules
4 hours
Drs. Adrian Stan Mathematical foundations of quantum physics
3 hours
Adrian-Stan-16apr08.pdf
Drs. Daniel R. Rohr Introductory course on quantum mechanics and electronic structure methods
3 hours
Rohr-Han-2006.pdf
Rohr-oep-2006.pdf
Prof. Ria Broer Electronic structure methods for solids
6 hours
Dr. ir. Gerrit C. Groenenboom Angular momentum theory
4 hours
lecture-notes

2005 (December 12 - 16)

Dr. Geert Brocks Molecular electronics: electron transport at the nanoscale
6 hours
Lecture notes.pdf
Dr. Francesco Buda Car-Parrinello method for ab-initio Molecular Dynamics
6 hours
Lecture notes.pdf
Prof. Dr. Marc van Hemert Theoretical Interstellar Chemistry
5 hours
Prof. Dr. Marc Vrakking Development of attosecond lasers and their application to molecular dynamics
4 hours
Dr. ir. Gerrit C. Groenenboom Quantum electrodynamics: one- and two-photon processes
5 hours
Lecture notes.pdf

2004 (December 06 - 10)

Dr. F. Matthias Bickelhaupt Understanding Chemistry with Kohn-Sham Molecular Orbital Theory
4 hours
Dr. Robert van Leeuwen Nonequilibrium Green functions
6 hours
Lecture (pdf)
Dr. habil. Harold Linnartz From experimental spectrum to molecular geometry and vv.
6 hours
Dr. ir. Gerrit C. Groenenboom Time independent scattering theory
4 hours
Lecture (pdf)
Dr. Benoît Champagne Quantum chemical contributions to the design of nonlinear optical materials
6 hours