Date: March 13th 2012

Please share this with interested parties. I apologize if you receive
multiple copies of this announcement.
Note that the deadline is coming soon- I was sick and unable to send
this out earlier.

Applications are open for 3 types of awards from the ACS Division of
Computers in Chemistry, to be awarded at the Fall 2012 national
meeting in Philadelphia. The deadline is 5pm EDT Tuesday, April 3,
2012.

1) CCG Research Excellence award (graduate students)
2) HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (tenure-track Assistant Professors)
3) Peter Kollman Graduate Award in High Performance Computing

CCG Graduate student award CCG Research Excellence student travel
award stipends are available for the Fall 2012 Philadelphia ACS
National Meeting.

The CCG Excellence Awards have been created to stimulate graduate
student participation in ACS COMP Division activities (symposia and
poster sessions) at ACS National Meetings. Those eligible for a CCG
Excellence Award are graduate students in good standing who present
work within the COMP program, either in oral or poster format. Winners
receive $1,150 to offset their travel expenses, 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. Up to 5 awardees will be 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 (North, South or Central) are
encouraged to submit applications. Awards will be given only to those
individuals making presentations, not co-authors. There is a limit of
one CCG award application per research lab (PI). Previous winners are
not eligible.

To apply for an award for the ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia, PA
Aug 19-23, 2012, a title and extended abstract of the work (no more
than 2 pages), a two page CV, a personal statement (no more than 1
page) and a letter of support from the research advisor should be sent
as a SINGLE pdf or text file to carlos.simmerling @ gmail.com. Use the
subject ACS CCG AWARD APPLICATION. You must include your last name at
the beginning of the file name. Letters of support can be sent
separately from the other materials but must still arrive by the
deadline.

The application deadline is 5pm EDT on Tuesday, April 3. Applicants
will receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not
receive confirmation by 1pm on April 5, please contact the organizer
immediately by email (see below). In addition, you must submit your
normal poster abstract to the "Chemical Computing Group Excellence
Award" symposium on the ACS PACS system prior to the PACS deadline.
Note that you MUST APPLY TWICE: email your application, and submit an
abstract to PACS. Both must be submitted before their respective
deadlines. Do not submit your PACS abstract to the standard poster
session- it must be submitted for the CCG session or your application
will not be considered.

More information on awards offered by the ACS COMP division can be
found on the web site at http://web2011.acscomp.org/awards

Carlos Simmerling
Chair, ACS COMP Division Awards Committee
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
631-632-1336
carlos.simmerling @ gmail.com

HP Junior Faculty Award

The ACS COMP HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award program provides
$1,000 to up to four outstanding tenure-track junior faculty members
to present their work in COMP symposia at ACS National Meetings. The
Awards are designed to assist new faculty members in gaining
visibility within the COMP community. Award certificates and $1,000
prizes will be presented at the COMP Poster session. While special
consideration will be given to Assistant Professors presenting work in
the area of algorithm and methods development, applications for
Outstanding Junior Faculty Awards are invited from all current
tenure-track junior/untenured faculty (or equivalent positions in
other institution types) who are members of ACS and the ACS Division
of Computers in Chemistry. Postdoctoral researchers in transition to
faculty appointments may also be considered. Selection criteria will
include the novelty and importance of the work to be presented, CV of
the applicant, as well as the level of Departmental support as
indicated by the applicant's department Chair or Chair designee.

To apply for an award for the ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia, PA
Aug 19-23, 2012, a title and extended abstract of the work (no more
than 2 pages), a complete CV (including ACS member number) and the
letter of departmental support should be sent as a SINGLE pdf or text
file to carlos.simmerling @ gmail.com. Use the subject ACS HP AWARD
APPLICATION. The departmental support letter can be sent separately if
desired but must arrive by the deadline. You must include your last
name at the start of the file name.

The application deadline is 5pm EDT on Tuesday, April 3. Applicants
will receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not
receive confirmation by 1pm on April 5, please contact the organizer
immediately by email. In addition, you must submit your normal poster
abstract to the "Outstanding Junior Faculty Award" symposium on the
ACS PACS system prior to the PACS deadline. Note that you MUST APPLY
TWICE: email your application, and submit an abstract to PACS. Both
must be submitted before their respective deadlines. Do not submit
your PACS abstract to the standard poster session- it must be
submitted for the HP session or your application will not be
considered. Note that the award application is for the poster session.
If you want to also give an oral presentation, you must submit a
separate abstract to PACS for an oral presentation in a relevant
session, in addition to the poster abstract in the award section (note
that acceptance into the oral sessions is not guaranteed). Use a
somewhat different title for the talk and poster.

More information on awards offered by the ACS COMP division can be
found on the web site at http://web2011.acscomp.org/awards

Carlos Simmerling
Chair, ACS COMP Division Awards Committee
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
631-632-1336
carlos.simmerling @ gmail.com

High Perfomance Computing

Peter Kollman Graduate Award in High Performance Computing to be
awarded at the Fall 2012 Philadelphia ACS National Meeting. The ACS
Peter Kollman Graduate Award in High Performance Computing has been
created to provide supercomputer resources to outstanding students in
the early stages of their graduate career, particularly for projects
that need high performance computing resources for their
chemistry-related project. Those eligible for the award are graduate
students in good standing who are carrying out research in the broadly
defined area of computational chemistry. Winners (or their adviser, if
necessary) will be the Principal Investigator of a new account on the
kraken Cray XT5 supercomputer at the National Institute of
Computational Sciences (NICS), with an allocation of computing time to
support the project. For information about kraken, see
http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/computing-resources/kraken. Allocations
will be determined based on the requested amount and consideration of
resource availability. Up to 2 awardees will be chosen on the basis
of: the significance of the project plan, the potential impact on the
project of obtaining additional supercomputer resources, the
qualifications of the student, and the strength of the supporting
letter and other materials. Projects with modest computational needs
that can be performed on individual machines or small clusters are not
likely to be competitive.

Application requirements include a title and extended abstract of the
work (no more than 1 page), a two page CV, a brief letter of support
from the research advisor, and a 1-2 page detailed computational plan
indicating: computational resources already available for the project,
the types of calculations to be performed, experience of the applicant
with high performance computing, availability of software,
justification of number and length of runs, parallel scaling data, and
an estimate of the total time needed.

Submit the application to carlos.simmerling @ gmail.com as a SINGLE
pdf or text file, and include your last name at the start of the file
name. Use the subject ACS Kollman AWARD APPLICATION. There is a limit
of one Kollman Award application per research lab (PI). Previous
winners are not eligible.

The application deadline is 5pm EDT on Tuesday, April 3. Applicants
will receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not
receive confirmation by 1pm on April 5, please contact the organizer
immediately by email. Winners are encouraged but not required to
present their work within the COMP program at the meeting, either in
oral or poster format. If you want to present your work in an oral or
poster presentation, you must also submit your abstract using the ACS
PACS system, prior to the PACS deadline. Application for the
supercomputing award does not constitute an application for a
presentation.

More information on awards offered by the ACS COMP division can be
found on the web site at http://web2011.acscomp.org/awards

Carlos Simmerling
Chair, ACS COMP Division Awards Committee
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
631-632-1336
carlos.simmerling @ gmail.com