The Sanibel Symposium is an international

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, and

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. It has been organized by the Quantum Theory Project at the

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, every winter since 1960. It was founded by

Per-Olov Löwdin Per-Olov Löwdin (October 28, 1916 – October 6, 2000) was a Swedish physicist, professor at the University of Uppsala from 1960 to 1983, and in parallel at the University of Florida until 1993. A former graduate student under Ivar Waller, Löwd ...

who was involved in its organization every year from 1960 to his death in 2000. From 1960 to 1978, the symposium was held on

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, but later symposia have been held in

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and St. Augustine. In 2005, the Symposium moved to St. Simons Island, Georgia, United States. The Symposium is noted for its long history and for the breadth of both the participants and the presentations. The 2010 meeting covers "Forefront theory and computation in quantum chemistry, condensed matter and chemical physics, nanoscience, quantum biochemistry and biophysics". The Sanibel Symposium is described as a "highly respected regular conference" in a history of the

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.A Brief History of the Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry
Accessed January 10, 2007] The Sanibel Coefficients, used for example in calculated spin densities, were named after the Symposium where they were widely discussed in the 1960s. Lectures and posters presented at the meeting are often published in the peer-reviewed journal "

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" as one or more issues of the journal. Before 1996, papers were published in special supplements of the Journal for Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Biology.

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