The Henry Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry

Announces the first annual HEC Symposium

to be held Monday, April 28, 2008

Featuring two Henry Eyring Lectures by

Professor Ken Jordan, Pittsburgh Professor Anne McCoy, Ohio State

All presentations held in the first-floor INSCC lecture hall.

Schedule:

8:00-8:20 Refreshments

8:20-8:30 Welcoming remarks

8:30-9:00 Professor Jack Simons (How Electrons Fragment Peptides)

9:00-9:30 Professor Greg Voth (Systematic Coarse-graining of Condensed Phase Systems)

9:30-9:45 break

9:45-10:15 Professor Grant Smith (Multiscale Simulations of Nanoparticle Self-Assembly)

10:15-10:45 Professor Thanh Truong (Cyber-enabled Education and Research in Computational Chemistry)

10:45-11:00 break and refreshments

11:00-12:00 Henry Eyring Lecture by Professor Ken Jordan (Theoretical Studies of Clathrate Hydrates)

12:00-2:00 Lunch break (students/postdocs take Anne and Ken to lunch)

2:00-2:30 Professor Julio Facelli (Crystal Structure Prediction of Drugs and Related Compounds)

2:30-3:00 Professor Valeria Molinero (Water Behaves as an Intermediate Element Between Carbon and Silicon)

3:00-3:30 Professor Tom Cheatham (Is it Real or is it Artifact: Simulation of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics)

3:30-4:00 break and refreshments

4:00-5:00 Henry Eyring Lecture by Professor Anne McCoy (Puzzling Protons: Unraveling Spectral Signatures of Proton Transfer in Hydrogen Bonded Complexes)