Fraga, Serafin

Fokkens Roel H., 978 Foresman James B., 687 Fraga Serafin, 420 Franck James, 302, 317 Franken Peter A.,... 

As indicated in Table 1, the Canadian Symposia on Theoretical Chemistry (CSTC) have continued to flourish more than 30 years after the original conference organized by Fraser Birss and Serafin Fraga. Amid the splendid scenery of the Rockies, it was decided at the Seventh Canadian Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry in 1980 in Banff, Alberta, that the two cochairs should be chosen 6 years in advance. This policy has helped to facilitate future planning and to ensure the continuation of the strong traditions associated with the CSTC. Thus, at the symposium in 1995 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Fred McCourt (University of Waterloo) and Jim Wright (Carleton University) were chosen to organize the fourteenth symposium in 2001, an auspicious date for computational chemistry. 

Gulzari Malli has maintained his interest in ab initio relativistic quantum chemistry since he joined SFU in 1966. In fact, the earliest work in Canada on relativistic quantum chemistry appears to have been carried out in 1965 by Malli and Serafin Fraga at the University of Alberta. Their earliest results were documented in a compact book.249... 

The awarding of the Fifth International Congress on Quantum Chemistry (ICQC) to Canada in 1985, a mere 20 years after the historic conference convened by Fraser Birss and Serafin Fraga in Edmonton, signaled that Canada had arrived in the field of computational and theoretical chemistry. The first four ICQCs were held in France (Menton, 1973), the United States (New Orleans, 1976), Japan (Kyoto, 1979), and Sweden (Uppsala, 1982). 

Serafin Fraga, K. M. S. Saxena, and Manuel Torres, Biomolecular Information Theory, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1978. 

Serafin Fraga and Jacek Karwowski, Tables of Hartree-Fock Atomic Data, University of Alberta, Department of Chemistry, Edmonton, Canada, 1973. 

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