Walter Kohn Centenary Celebration
One-Day Celebratory Symposium on
Life, Science and Legacy of Walter Kohn
Date: March 9, 2023
Organized by : TCG Centre for Research and Education in Science and Technology (TCG CREST)
Walter Kohn is an iconic figure in 20th Century Science. He was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. Kohn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998 for development of the invaluable concept of reformulating quantum many-electron problem in a remarkably elegant fashion.
On the occasion of his birth centenary, TCG CREST organized a one-day symposium (WKCCS2023) on 9th March 2023. This was followed by a Special Evening Lecture by Noble laureate Professor Roald Hoffman, on Friday, 10th March 2023.
Multiple eminent speakers from India and USA, deliberated on the life and science of Walter Kohn, starting from a historical perspective, and then discussed the legacy that he left behind for generations of physicists, chemists, biologists and materials scientists. Apart from reminiscences, the presentations provided a flavor of the versatility of Walter Kohn which is evident from the diverse phenomena that are named after him, viz.
- Kohn variational principle in scattering theory
- Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) Green’s function method in electronic structure
- Kohn anomaly or ‘kink’ in the phonon spectra of metals
- Kohn-Luttinger theories : Effective mass theory, Quantum transport, Field Theory
- Kohn-Majumdar theorem of continuity between bound & unbound state in a Fermi gas
- Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory
Please find below the video of the speakers and their presentations in the Workshop.
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Special Evening Lecture on 10th March, 2023
Professor Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize Winner (1981) in Chemistry and the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, Cornell University, USA, delivered the Special evening lecture entitled “Understanding and Computation” on this occasion on March 10, 2023
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Chief Patron
Dr. Purnendu Chatterjee
Advisory Committee
- Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
- T.V. Ramakrishnan
- Debashis Mukherjee
Organizing Committee
- Gour P. Das (Convener)
- Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta
- Swapan K. Ghosh
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