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Computers in Chemistry

The Computers in Chemistry Division
Awards Announcements

 American Chemical Society

Chemical Computing Group
Excellence Award

Chemical Computing Group LogoThe CCG Excellence Awards were created to stimulate graduate student participation in COMP Division activities (symposia and poster sessions) at ACS National Meetings. Those eligible for a CCG Excellence Award, are gradute students of the Americas in good standing who present work within the COMP program, either in oral or poster format. Winners receive $1,150, as well as a copy of CCG's MOE (Molecular Operating Environment) software with a one-year license. They are also honored during a ceremony at the COMP Division Poster Session.

The winners for the fall 2008 meeting in Philadelphia are:

Satyender Goel, University of Central Florida Pairwise spin-contamination correction and application to 3-D transition metal hydrides from BS-DFT

Lucius E. Johnson, University of Louisville Mechanism of electronic stabilization of cyclopropenylidene byamino-substitution

In Suk Joung, University of Utah Determination of alkali and halide monovalent ion parameters for use in explicitly solvated biomolecular simulations

Laveena Muley, University at Buffalo Binding affinity awarded for hydrophobic bonding in scoring functions needs to be context dependent

Somisetti V Sambasivarao, Auburn University Systematic development of OPLS-AA force field parameters for ionic liquid simulations

Applications for CCG Excellence Awards

The application consists of an extended abstract (no more than 2 pages) of the poster or presentation along with a letter of support from the research advisor, a two page CV, and a personal statement (no more than 1 page). The awardees are chosen on the basis of the quality and significance of the research to be presented, as well as the strength of the supporting letter and other materials. All graduate students of the Americas are encouraged to submit applications. Awards will be given only to those individuals making presentations, not co-authors.

Closing date for entries for Spring 2009 (including all required supporting info.) will be announced shortly. Note that the award application deadline is BEFORE the normal deadline for submission of abstracts for the meeting.

Applicants will receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not receive confirmation by the date , please contact the organizer immediately by telephone (see below).

In addition, you must submit your normal abstract to the "Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award" symposium on the OASYS system (the COMP OASYS deadline is March 1, 2009 for the Spring 2009 Salt Lake City ACS Meeting)

For additional information, contact:

Carlos Simmerling
Chair, ACS COMP Division Awards Committee
Department of Chemistry
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
631-384-9248
carlos.simmerling AT gmail.com

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