18th International Congress on Quantum Chemistry

May 31st to June 5th, 2026
Berkeley, California, USA

About the conference

The 18th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry will take place May 31st to June 5th, 2026, at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. The conference, organized by the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, invites scientists from around the world to share the latest advances in the field of computational and theoretical chemistry.

Registration is open

Register

ICQC will have two rounds of registration, Early Bird and Regular. Early bird registration will run until March 31st, 2026.

| Registration Fees

Student

Early Bird
Until March 31st, 2026

$550 USD

Regular
After March 31st, 2026

$650 USD

General

Early Bird
Until March 31st, 2026

$650 USD

Regular
After March 31st, 2026

$750 USD

Speakers

In addition to the invited speakers below, ICQC 2026 will also accept contributed talks! There will be roughly 45 contributed talks, selected from contributed abstracts by our program committee.

| Keynote Speakers

Weinan E (Peking)

Benedetta Mennucci (Pisa)

Seiichiro Ten-no (Kobe)

Matthias Troyer (Microsoft)

Veronique Van Speybroeck (Gent)

Weitao Yang (Duke)

| Plenary Speakers

Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Toronto)

Sonja Coriani (DTU)

Fernanda Duarte (Oxford)

Paola Gori-Giorgi (Microsoft)

Andreas Gorling (Erlangen)

Stefan Grimme (Bonn)

E.K.U. Gross (Jerusalem)

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Princeton)

John Herbert (Ohio State)

Heather Kulik (MIT)

Wenjian Liu (Shandong)

Pierre-Francois Loos (Toulouse)

Neepa Maitra (Rutgers)

Edit Mátyus (ELTE)

Nick Mayhall (Indiana)

Katarzyna Pernal (Lodz)

Markus Reiher (ETH)

Karsten Reuter (Fritz-Haber)

Brenda Rubenstein (Brown)

Stella Stopkowicz (Saarlandes)

Joe Subotnik (Princeton)

Alex Tkatchenko (Luxembourg)

Ed Valeev (Virgina Tech)

Brandon Wood (META)

Joel Yuen-Zhou (UCSD)

| Invited Speakers (A-L)

Tim Berkelbach (Columbia)

Elena Besley (Nottingham)

Katharina Boguslawski (Nicolaus Copernicus)

George Booth (King's College)

Lan Cheng (Hopkins)

Clemence Corminboeuf (EPFL)

Shirin Faraji (Dusseldorf)

Sarai Folkestad (NTNU)

Emmanuel Fromager (Strasbourg)

Filipp Furche (UCI)

Kade Head-Marsden (Minnesota)

Chao-Ping Hsu (Academia Sinica)

Artur Izmaylov (Toronto)

Amber Jain (IIT Bombay)

Yousung Jung (Seoul)

Martin Kaupp (TU Berlin)

Andreas Koehn (Stuttgart)

Joonho Lee (Harvard)

Ben Levine (Stony Brook)

Shuhua Li (Nanjing)

Chen Li (Peking)

WanZhen Liang (Xiamen)

Zhou Lin (UMass Amherst)

Jian Liu (Peking)

| Invited Speakers (M-Z)

Rahul Maitra (IIT Bombay)

Nancy Makri (UIUC)

Giovanni Li Manni (Max Planck)

Laura McCaslin (Sandia)

Gabriel Merino (CINVESTAV Mérida)

Kevin J Naidoo (Cape Town)

Hiromi Nakai (Waseda)

Prineha Narang (UCLA)

Josef Noga (Bratislava)

Diana Qiu (Yale)

Andres Reyes (National Univ. Colombia)

Adrienn Ruzsinszky (Tulane)

Pedro Salvador (Girona)

Shaama Sharada (USC)

James Shee (Rice)

David Sherrill (Georgia Tech)

Gemma C. Solomon (Copenhagen)

Tamar Stein (Jerusalem)

Raghavan B. Sunoj (IIT Bombay)

Krzysztof Szalewicz (Delaware)

Lan Tran (VNUHCM)

Alberto Vela (CINVESTAV IPN)

James Whitfield (Dartmouth)

WeI Wu (Xiamen)

Xin Xu (Fudan)

Yang Yang (Wisconsion)

Travel

| Air Travel

There are two airports located near Berkeley;

Oakland International Airport (OAK)

This is the nearest airport for accessing the conference venue. OAK is located approximately 30-60 minutes from the University of California, Berkeley.

  • OAK ridesharing (ie Uber) information can be found HERE

  • OAK car rental information can be found HERE

  • OAK public transportation information can be found HERE

San Francisco International Airport (SFO)

SFO is located approximately 60-90 minutes from the University of California, Berkeley.

  • SFO ridesharing (ie Uber) information can be found HERE

  • SFO car rental information can be found HERE

  • SFO public transportation information can be found HERE

| Public Transportation

Public transportation is available via the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system from either OAK or SFO. The closest BART station is Downtown Berkeley; the conference is approximately a half mile walk East from the station. More information about BART can be found HERE.

  • BART website can be found HERE

  • BART Transit Map can be found HERE

  • Downtown Berkeley BART Station on Google Maps can be found HERE

The AC Transit system is a bus system that operates within Alameda County and is the most convenient public transit system to travel around the Berkeley/Oakland area.

  • AC Transit information can be found HERE

All San Francisco Bay Area Public Transportation systems accept Clipper transit cards. Clipper transit cards can be purchased at BART stations or online.

  • Clipper Card information can be found HERE

| Driving Directions

Driving from San Francisco and San Francisco International Airport (SFO)

  1. Take US-101 North,

  2. Follow to I-80 East, San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge,

  3. After the Bay Bridge, bear left to I-80 East toward Berkeley/Sacramento,

  4. On I-80 East, exit at University Ave,

  5. Turn left onto Oxford St,

  6. Turn right onto Hearst Ave.

Driving from Oakland Airport (OAK)

  1. Take I-880 North toward Sacramento/San Francisco/Berkeley

  2. Exit onto I-80 East toward Berkeley/Sacramento

  3. On I-80 East, exit at University Ave,

  4. Turn left onto Oxford St,

  5. Turn right onto Hearst Ave.

University parking information and rates are available on the University’s Parking and Transportation Office website (found HERE). Information on parking in the city of Berkeley is also available on their website.

Accomodations

ICQC 2026 has reserved a block of rooms at the Helen Diller Anchor House, an off-campus student apartment complex. Rates and details are still being discussed. More information about the Helen Diller Anchor House can be found HERE.

Organizers

| Organizing Committee

  • Martin Head-Gordon, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  • Eric Neuscamman, University of California, Berkeley, USA

| Advisory Committee

  • Anastassia Alexandrova, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  • Garnet Chan, California Institute of Technology, USA

  • Teresa Head-Gordon, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  • Christine Isborn, University of California, Merced, USA

  • Bert de Jong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

  • Anna Krylov, University of Southern California, USA

  • Xiaosong Li, University of Washington, USA

  • Todd Martinez, Stanford University, USA

  • Anne B. McCoy, University of Washington, USA

  • Eran Rabani, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  • Gustavo Scuseria, Rice University, USA

  • Lee-Ping Wang, University of California, Davis, USA

| Contact

For questions related to ICQC 2026, please email icqc2026@berkeley.edu.

Please note all communications with participants for ICQC 2026 will be carried out using official mail address of the University of California, Berkeley (@berkeley.edu). Keep this in mind to avoid scammers that target participants of such events.