Home News Colloquia colloquien_SS_2017 Archiv colloquium series summer term 2017 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Eberhard K. U. Gross Potential Energy Surfaces and Berry Phases beyond the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation (Prof. E. Gross) Date: May 2, 2017 Time: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Eberhard K. U. Gross Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall Host: MPQ The starting point of essentially all modern electronic-structure techniques is the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. It not only makes calculations feasible, it also provides us with an intuitive picture of chemical reactions. [more]