<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>This message (also attached as pdf) contains the second circular for the FOMMS 2009 conference. Some of the new information added since the first circular includes a delayed abstract deadline (March 20), the fee schedule, recipient of the inaugural FOMMS Medal, and details about the Workshop on Simulations in Education (including an opportunity to apply for a $500 grant towards the conference fee).</div>
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<br>This will likely be the final circular. For additional information, please check <a href="http://fomms.org" target="_blank">http://fomms.org</a> and subscribe to the FOMMS email list at <a href="http://www.freelists.org/list/fomms" target="_blank">http://www.freelists.org/list/fomms</a><br>
<br><p style="text-align: center;"></p><h1 style="text-align: center;">Second Circular</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Fourth
International Conference<br>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Foundations of<span> </span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Molecular Modeling </span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-variant: small-caps;">and Simulation</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 4pt; font-variant: small-caps;"> </span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-variant: small-caps;">fomms 2009</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-variant: small-caps;"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Foundations
for Innovation</span></i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Semiahmoo
Resort, Blaine WA</span></i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">July 12 -16, 2009</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;"><a href="http://fomms.org" target="_blank">http://fomms.org</a><i></i></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 4pt;"> </span></p><i><span style="font-size: 8pt;"></span></i>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Presented by:</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CACHE Corporation and</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">the Computational Molecular Science & Engineering
Forum of the</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">American Institute of Chemical Engineers</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br></p><p style="text-align: left;">
</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Call for Participation</span></b></p>
<p>FOMMS is the premier conference on molecular modeling and
simulation.<span> </span>Through a combination of
outstanding keynote and invited talks on cutting edge research, to tutorials
and workshops on selected topics, FOMMS caters to all levels of interest, from
the expert in molecular modeling and simulation to those interested in learning
more about this exciting field.<span> </span>FOMMS
2009 will bring together in a single forum the best molecular modeling researchers,
academic and industrial users, and commercial vendors.<span> </span></p>
<p>To subscribe to the FOMMS mailing list, visit <a href="http://www.freelists.org/list/fomms" target="_blank">http://www.freelists.org/list/fomms</a>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Registration Fee Schedule</b> </span></p>
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<p> Cost<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<p> Early (by June 1) <span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<p> $595<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<p> Student/postdoc<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<p> $395<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<p> Standard (after June 1) <span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<p> $795<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">The registration fee
(reduced from 2006) includes: Participation in all sessions including GPU
tutorial and workshops, all breakfasts, breaks, and poster and evening
receptions, Thursday night banquet, and CD of abstracts.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Important Dates</span></b></p>
<p>- Submission of poster
abstracts:<span> </span>Mar 20, 2009 </p>
<p>- Notification of poster
acceptance:<span> </span>Apr 1, 2009</p>
<p>- Invited talk/poster manuscripts
due: Jun 5, 2009 <br></p><p>- Early registration: Jun 5, 2009 </p>
<p>- Cut-off date for hotel
reservations: Jun 12, 2009 </p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Venue</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Semiahmoo
Resort is a seaside hotel featuring a luxurious spa and two of Washington’s top
public golf courses.<span> </span>Nestled on the
northern Puget Sound shoreline in Blaine, WA, and overlooking Semiahmoo Bay and
Drayton Harbor, the resort offers a multitude of resort activities in a
beautiful setting. <b><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: blue;"><a href="http://www.semiahmoo.com/" target="_blank">http://www.semiahmoo.com/</a></span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p><b>FOMMS
2009</b> is the 4th international conference showcasing applications and theory
of computational quantum chemistry, molecular science, and engineering
simulation. It is motivated by the continual need for precise prediction and control
of materials properties and the fundamental, molecular-level understanding of chemical
processes that allow the efficient creation of new products to meet specific
market demands. Theoretical and algorithmic advances and modern computing
technology allow companies to capture value and truly sustainable, far-reaching
competitive advantage. <span> </span>The future for
these methods is bright as they continue to prove their value to the chemical
and chemical-related industries.<span> </span>The conference
will explore these issues in the same format as the three previous highly
successful FOMMS meetings held in 2000, 2003, and 2006.</p>
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<p><b>FOMMS 2009</b> combines plenary invited lectures, poster sessions, and
abundant free time for interactions and dialogue.<span> </span>The invited plenary lectures and represent
the state-of-the-art in the particular special topic areas.<span> </span>Two poster sessions will provide
opportunities for all attendees to present their work.<span> </span>Workshops on the use of manycore and GPUs,
simulation in education, and open source code development will also be
featured.<span> </span>In addition, the schedule
provides large blocks of time for informal discussions, relaxation, or leisure,
as well as nightly receptions to facilitate interaction between conference
participants.<span> </span>Conference papers will be
published in rigorously reviewed proceedings.<br>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">FOMMS Medal Award</span></b></p>
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The inaugural FOMMS Medal
will be awarded to Prof. Michele Parrinello of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH Zurich). The award honors "<i>profound and lasting contributions by one or more individuals to the
development of computational methods and their application to the field of
molecular-based modeling and simulation</i>." Professor Parrinello will be
honored by the conference attendees at the conference banquet to be held on
Thursday evening July 16.</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Plenary
Lectures</span></b></p>
<p>New perspectives in molecular simulation:</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Daan Frenkel (Cambridge)</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Berend Smit (UC Berkeley)</p>
<p>Proteins and biological systems:</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>David Baker (U Washington)</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Charlie Brooks (U Michigan)</p>
<p>Linking process scale simulation and molecular modeling:</p>
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</span></span></span>Linda Broadbelt (Northwestern)</p>
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</span></span></span>Dion Vlachos (U Delaware)</p>
<p>Rare events: acceleration algorithms and transition path
sampling:</p>
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</span></span></span>Giovanni Ciccotti (La Sapienza, Rome)</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Phil Geissler (UC Berkeley)</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="SV"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="SV">Baron
Peters (UC Santa Barbara)</span></p>
<p>Soft materials and complex fluids: </p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Lev Gelb (Washington U)</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="SV">Clare
McCabe (Vanderbilt)</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="SV">Ilja
Siepmann (U Minnesota)</span></p>
<p>Novel materials and industrial applications of SBE&S:</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Caroline Mellot (UCL, UK)</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Shinichiro Nakamura (Mitsubishi, Japan)</p>
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</span></span></span>Herve' Toulhoat (IFP, France)</p>
<p>Petascale computing and emerging architectures for
simulation:</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="DE"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="DE">George
Karniadakis (Brown U)</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="DE">Klaus
Schulten (UIUC)</span></p>
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</span></span></span>David Shaw (D.E. Shaw Research & Columbia)</p>
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</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Workshop on Simulations in Education</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On Wednesday afternoon, a
workshop will be conducted to acquaint interested participants with molecular
simulation modules that have been developed for undergraduate instruction. As
graphically-oriented, interactive simulations they demonstrate the molecular
origins of principles that students learn in their courses on thermodynamics,
kinetics, and transport. We will review the modules that have been developed so
far, discuss and demonstrate how they can be used, and consider ways that
participants can get involved in the development of new modules.<span> </span>We also invite participants who have
developed their own educational molecular simulation modules to present them at
the workshop. If you wish to do this, please contact David Kofke before June 1
to coordinate arrangements.<span> </span>Workshop
participants can also apply for a grant of $500 toward payment of the FOMMS
conference fee. <span> </span>More details: <a href="http://fomms.org/workshops" target="_blank">http://fomms.org/workshops</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br></p><p style="text-align: justify;">
</p><p><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Conference
Organizing Committee</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Chair:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sharon C. Glotzer (U Michigan)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Co-Chairs</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Alain Fuchs (ENSPC, France), Susumu
Okazaki (IMS, Japan), Jonathan Moore (Dow Chemical, USA)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Senior Advisors</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Peter T. Cummings
(Vanderbilt/ORNL), Phil Westmoreland (UMass/NSF), Joe Golab (INEOS)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Programming committee</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Claire Adjiman (Imperial College),
Jerry Bernholc (NCSU), Anne M. Chaka (NIST), Pablo Debenedetti (Princeton), Kerwin
Dobbs (Dupont), Thom Dunning (NCSA), Glenn Fredrickson (UCSB), Shekhar Garde
(RPI), Peter A. Gordon (ExxonMobil), Carol K. Hall (NCSU), Mark A. Horsch
(Intel), Shiaki Hyodo (Toyota Central R&D), David A. Kofke (SUNY-Buffalo), Shaoyi
Jiang (UW), Matthew Neurock (UVa), Jeffrey A. Nichols (ORNL), John P. O'Connell
(UVa), Mark A. Ratner (NWU), Richard Ross (3M), Philippe Ungerer (IFP)</p>
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</p><p><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sponsors</span></b></p>
<p></p></div></div>IFP (Innovation Energy Environment)<br>NSF<br>CACHE Corporation<br>AIChE<br></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p><br><span lang="DE"></span></p>
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