From the editor, Volume 2, issue 2

Abstract

It is an honor and privilige to publish the abstracts of the 11 th Chemical Physics Congress (CPC-XI) in the current issue of the The Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society, Section A: Chemistry(JOTCSA).11th Chemical Physics Congress was organized by Piri Reis University in Istanbul on October 17-18, 2014. The Conference covered contributions from experimental and theoretical chemicalphysics research areas and will mainly be on the following themes:Thermodynamics and statistical mechanicsComputational chemistrySurfaces, interfaces and materialsSpectroscopyClassical and quantum dynamicsChemical KineticsBiophysical chemistryThere were three keynote talks by distinguished scientists from international chemical physicscommunity, 23 contributed talks on different themes of the meeting and 76 posterpresentations. All of these presentations were very valuable contributions for advancing andexcelling the scientific research in our community. We would like to thank each and everyparticipant in this organization for their efforts and contributions. We also would like tocommemorate fellow scientists we lost, especially Prof. Dr. Cemil Öğretir (1947-2011), andhonour their work for the chemical physics meetings in the past.This meeting would not be possible without the support provided by Piri Reis University, Tübitakand Terralab. We would like to express our most sincere gratitude for their help. We also wouldlike to thank to the Scientific Committee for their support to the present meeting and for theirextensive efforts on the continuation of chemical physics meetings in Turkey.Finally, we would like to thank the editorial team JOTCSA for their efforts in the outreach of thecongress presentations to a wider scientific audience. I believe that development of the sciencepublishing in a country is closely related to the very essence of the development of scienceitself. Therefore, I hope that JOTCSA has a very long life as a high-quality peer reviewed journalin the Turkish scientific community. Researchers working in all fields of applied and theoreticalchemistry are invited to consider JOTCSA for publication of their manuscripts. This journal cangrow only by the support and efforts of the fellow scientists in Turkey and become aninternational reference point.I am looking forward to reaching your valuable contributions and high-quality articles in thecoming issues of JOTCSA as well as in the 12 th Chemical Physics Congress in 2016.On behalf of the Organization Committee of CPC-XIAssoc. Prof. Dr. Alimet Sema ÖzenGuest Editor of JOTCSA