Smith, Vedene

The author acknowledges many stimulating discussions with attendees of the Sagamore XII conference, including with Prof. Lou Massa, Prof. Mel Levy, Prof. Robert Parr, Prof. Wolf Weyerich, Prof. Vedene Smith, Dr. Mark Spackman, Prof. Graham Chandler, Prof. Brian Figgis, Dr. Stephen K. Wolff, and Dr. Harmut Schmider. Thanks to the Australian Research Council QEII fellowship scheme for funds. 

Vedene H. Smith Jr. (407), Department of Chemistry, Queen s University, Kingston, Ont., Canada... 

The search was first pursued in a series of conferences organized by Bob Erdahl, Hans Kummer, the late Vedene Smith, Jr., and myself. However, many others have been involved, notably Prof. Valdemoro and her colleagues in Spain, Prof. Nakatsuji and his associates in Japan, and since completing his Ph.D. at Harvard, Prof. Mazziotti in Chicago. 

The Conference was followed by an extended workshop. The Density Matrix Club had increased. The structure and symmetries of RDM were further studied, and direct variational calculations were encouraged. Some new names were Hubert Gmdzinski, Everett Larson, and Vedene Smith. The lively workshop encouraged the initiation of an informal newsletter to be distributed to old and new participants. Three Editions of RDO News followed, edited by Bob Erdahl (1975, 1976, 1977). 

The fourth symposium, organized by Gulzari Malli (Simon Fraser University) and Bob Snider (University of British Columbia) was held in 1971 on UBC s beautiful campus in Vancouver. Plans for the fifth symposium in the nation s capital, Ottawa, were modified when the First International Congress of Quantum Chemistry was organized in 1973 in Menton, France. David Bishop (University of Ottawa) and Vedene Smith (Queen s University) organized the fifth symposium in Ottawa in 1974. The shift from a biennial to a triennial conference established a natural rotation between the American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry,18 the Canadian Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, and the International Congress of Quantum Chemistry. This rotation has continued without interruption for more than two decades. 

In 1966 Neil Snider joined Queen s Department of Chemistry. He was followed by Douglas Hutchinson in 1964, Vedene Smith in 1967, and Hans Colpa in 1969 (see Table 2). Hutchinson left in 1984, while Colpa and Snider retired in 1991 and 1995, respectively. Meanwhile, Axel Becke and David Wardlaw arrived in 1984, Donald Weaver in 1989 and Natalie Cann in 1997. 

In 1997 Alan Cameron, formerly with Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York, and SynPhar Laboratories, Inc., of Edmonton, Alberta, joined BioChem Therapeutic, Inc., Laval, Quebec. He has been involved at BioChem in new compound identification and optimization of existing lead compounds directed toward various therapeutic agents including antithrombotics, opioid analgesics, and anticancer and antiviral compounds. He obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Mike Baird and Vedene Smith at Queen s University and was a postdoctoral fellow with Mike Zerner at Florida. 

Vedene H. Smith and Henry F. Schaefer, Applied Quantum Chemistry. Proceedings of the Nobel Laureate Symposium on Applied Quantum Chemistry, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 16-21, 1984, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1986. 

Robert Erdahl and Vedene H. Smith Jr., Density Matrixes and Density Functionals. Proceedings of the A. John Coleman Symposium, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1987. 

B. James Clark, Hartmut L. Schmider, and Vedene H. Smith, Jr. a ... 

Eq. (18) was first pointed out and exploited for electron correlated wave functions by Robert Benesch and Vedene Smith [30,31] during Benesch s doctoral studies. 

Ajit Thakkar, bom in Poona, India in 1950, left home at 17 to explore the West. A circuitous route led him to Queen s University in Kingston, Ontario. A summer job programming calculations of virial coefficients and transport cross-sections using FORTRAN IV, dreadful JCL, and punched cards on an IBM 360/50 drew him to computational chemistry. In 1976, he completed a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry guided by Vedene Smith and influenced by Robert Parr. His faculty career began at the University of Waterloo and, since 1984, continued at the idyllic Fredericton campus of the University of New Bmnswick. He is now a University Research Professor, and author of more than 200 articles on molecular properties, electron densities and intermolecular forces. 

The author acknowledges stimulating discussions with Professor Vedene Smith and Dr Alexei Frolov of Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario. The work has been supported hy the US National Science Foundation, Grant PHY-0303412. 

On the other hand, Pelle led us to admire (and use) perturbation theory. I was a PD fellow in the Quanmm Chemistry Group in Uppsala during 1972-1973. Other than Pelle and Osvaldo, there were other excellent scientists such as Ingve Ohm, Jean Louis Calais, Erkld Brmdas and Sten Lunell, and many, many PDs or visiting scientists I remember at this moment Vedene Smith and Manuel Berrondo. 

Acknowledgements. I would like to thank Professor G. L. Hofacker for the hospitaUty extended to me during my stay at the Lehrstuhl fflr Theoretische Chemie. I would also like to thank Professors Vedene H. Smith, Jr., Saul Wolfe and Ivar Ugi for their encouragement and their helpful comments. 

This research was conducted at the NASA Ames Research Center, supported in part by a NASA-ASEE-Stanford Summer Faculty Fellowship awarded to PIM. We thank Drs. Minhhuy Ho and Vedene H. Smith, Jr., of Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, for sharing a Fourier transformation algorithm with us. We also thank Dr. Subhash Saini (NASA Ames) for managerial support of our initial collaboration. 

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