CCL: ACS COMP Division awards applications for Fall 2011 meeting

 Sent to CCL by: "Carlos  Simmerling" [carlos.simmerling]*[gmail.com]
 Applications are open for 3 types of awards from the ACS Division of Computers
 in Chemistry, to be awarded at the Fall 2011 national meeting in Denver. The
 deadline is 5pm EDT March 28, 2011.
 1) CCG Research Excellence award (graduate students)
 2) HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (tenure-track Assistant Professors)
 3) Peter Kollman Graduate Award in Supercomputing
 CCG Graduate student award
 CCG Research Excellence student travel award stipends are available for the Fall
 2011 Denver 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 Denver, CO August
 28-September 1, 2011, an extended abstract of the work (no more than 2 pages), a
 two page CV along with a letter of support from the research advisor, and a
 personal statement (no more than 1 page) should be sent as a SINGLE pdf or text
 file to carlos.simmerling-.-gmail.com. You must include your last name in the
 file name. Letters of support can be sent separately from the other materials.
 The application deadline is 5pm EDT on March 28, 2011. Applicants will receive
 email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not receive confirmation
 by March 30, please contact the organizer immediately by telephone (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://www.acscomp.org/Awards/index.html
 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 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 Denver, CO August
 28-September 1, 2011, an extended abstract of the work (no more than 2 pages), a
 CV and the letter of departmental support should be sent as a SINGLE pdf or text
 file to carlos.simmerling-.-gmail.com. The departmental support letter can be
 sent separately if desired. You must include your last name in the file name.
 The application deadline is 5pm EDT on March 28. Applicants will receive email
 confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not receive confirmation by
 March 30, please contact the organizer immediately by telephone (see below). 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).
 More information on awards offered by the ACS COMP division can be found on the
 web site at http://www.acscomp.org/Awards/index.html
 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
 Supercomputing
  Peter Kollman Graduate Award in Supercomputing to be awarded at the Fall 2011
 Denver ACS National Meeting.
 The ACS Peter Kollman Graduate Award in Supercomputing 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, potential impact on the project of additional supercomputer resources,
 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 will likely not be competitive.
 Application requirements include an 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 page detailed computational plan indicating: computational resources already
 available for the project, the types of calculations to be performed,
 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 in the file name. There is a limit of one Supercomputing Award
 application per research lab (PI). Previous winners are not eligible.
 The application deadline is 5pm EDT on March 28, 2011. Applicants will receive
 email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not receive confirmation
 by March 30, please contact the organizer immediately by telephone (see below).
 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://www.acscomp.org/Awards/index.html
 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