The 2014 Sanibel meeting, the 54th in the longest running annual meeting in the field of Quantum Chemistry, Molecular Dynamics, and Condensed Matter Physics, was arranged by the Quantum Theory Project (QTP) for February 16–21. A ‘360’ meeting, based on an idea of Professor Hai-Ping Cheng, recognised five long-time principals in the Sanibel meeting whose ages in 2014 added to 360: Yngve Ohrn, QTP, Malcolm Stocks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Bill Bishop, University of Alabama; H.F. Schaefer, III, University of Georgia; and Rod Bartlett, QTP. A day of the symposium was devoted to each honouree's research, with several of their prior associates speaking. This enabled the scope of the work to span the variety of areas emphasised at Sanibel over the years.
In addition, Prof. Sam Trickey arranged a special department of energy (DOE) funded symposium on ‘Ab Initio Simulations at Extreme Conditions,’ directed at the new tools required to describe warm dense matter. Altogether, there were 200 attendees who presented 48 plenary talks and another 61 poster presentations.
Many of those talks are represented here in this special Sanibel Issue of Molecular Physics. We hope you will enjoy reading them.