As a continuation of previous meetings held in Nancy
( 1996 , France), Sitges ( 1999 , Spain), Sandbjerg
Estate ( 2003, Denmark) and Brandenburg on the Havel (
2006, Germany), we have the pleasure to announce the fifth
conference in the European Charge Density Meeting series, ECDM-5.
Analogously to ECDM-3, which was composed of two
meetings run in sequence - an European Science Foundation (ESF)
Exploratory workshop on the New Information from Modern Charge Density
Studies, followed by the ECDM-3 conference - also this upcoming ECDM-5
conference will have a special innovative format. The usual ECDM
conference has been joined with the DFG-1178
annual meeting, where DFG-1178 is the acronym of an impressive
program funded by the Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft (DFG) to spread
the word of the charge density analysis in both the chemistry and the
materials science communities.
We thought it important to exploit the
cross-fertilization of scientific ideas and of discussions of new
research directions that should naturally come out from the mixing of
these two events. This will also be the occasion to start thinking for
specific programs in the charge density realm, no longer limited to and
funded by a single nation, but rather opened to a wider European or even
worldwide context.
We have chosen as a meeting venue, Gravedona,
a charming, small village in the north part of the international
well-reckoned Lake of Como, which should allow a relaxing but not
scientifically dispersed climate. Although, we would be clearly very
pleased to, we can not ensure a nice weather, but if you will program to
come few days before or stay after the conference, this will largely
increase your chance to enjoy nice sunny days on the lake and/or on the
wonderful mountains surrounding the area.
Attendees are expected to arrive in Gravedona, late
in the evening of Friday 6th of June for the DFG-1178 welcome reception.
The DFG-1178 meeting will run from Saturday 7 morning until Sunday 8
June at noon. We will then have the social excursion in the afternoon
and on Sunday evening the ECDM-5 welcome party. ECDM-5 will then run
over the next two and a half days and will be closed by a ceremony after
the morning session of Wednesday, 11 June. Microsymposia are going to be
scheduled in the ECDM-V part of the full conference, while keynote
lectures will be distributed in both meetings.
We look forward to bringing together an outstanding
and diverse group of scientists at the forefront of research and we
promise to make every attempt to include younger scientists and phD and
degree students as well.
