Subject: ECCC7 Information

From: "Robert Q. Topper" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:32:07 -0500 (EST)

Dear ECCC7 authors and participants,  
 
As you've probably noticed, the website for ECCC7  
(http://eccc7.cooper.edu) is up and running! The  
conference is running using Discus Pro, the commercial  
version of the same software used for ECCC6.  
Many thanks to Heather Hauck, who designed the  
"look and feel" of the board and the new conference  
graphic, as well as to the rest of the ECCC7 web team.  
 
Please visit the site at your earliest convenience  
and register, and encourage your coauthors and  
colleagues to do the same. This is necessary so that  
you can set up and customize your account. It will also  
be necessary for you to post questions and answers.  
Finally, we really need you to register so that we  
can have an accurate headcount of participants.  
 
All submitting authors are required to register.  
 
To register, go to the Utilities menu on the left-hand  
side of the initial screen, click on "Your Account," and  
click on "Instant Registration." You will receive your  
initial password by email. Then you can log into your  
account and edit your profile, adding information  
such as your institutional affiliation, your personal  
web site's URL, and even a photo of yourself (this is  
strongly encouraged).  
 
Feel free to experiment with the discussion format  
in the "Suggestion Box" topic. There are lots of fun  
options within Discus which you can use to enliven  
your comments (if you choose). You can find information  
on how to format posts (add italics, etc.), add pictures and  
clip art, and so forth by clicking on "Formatting" under  
the Documentation menu. Instead of HTML, Discus uses its  
own (simpler) formatting commands. One caveat; the Greek  
fonts do not seem to display properly on many UNIX-based  
web browsers (because they may not have the Symbol font  
installed).  
 
Please remember that your contribution should  
be completely ready by Monday, March 26. Whether  
you are preparing a poster or a paper, your contribution  
should be viewable with a conventional web browser  
(i.e. it should be an HTML document or site).  
When your presentation is completely finished, please  
send the URL of the entry point to me at [email-masked]  
before March 26.  
 
If you have requested that your presentation be served directly  
> from our server rather than your local site, you can simply  
provide the URL to us when it is ready and we will upload your  
entire presentation onto our own site. Alternatively, you  
can put the entire presentation into an archive and tell us  
where we can pick it up by anonymous FTP. Archives of smaller  
presentations can simply be sent to me by email.  
 
I encourage you to take maximum advantage of the Web's  
capabilities for displaying and sharing scientific information.  
Some useful resources can be found by clicking on  
"Announcements" and then "Links for WWW Publication of  
Molecular Structures and Other Chemical Information."  
 
Please let me know if you have any questions, and welcome  
to ECCC7!  
 
Best regards,  
Robert  
 
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ELECTRONIC COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY CONFERENCE APRIL 2001
http://eccc7.cooper.edu
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Robert Q. Topper, Ph.D.                 email:   [email-masked]
Associate Professor of Chemistry        phone:   (212) 353-4378
School of Engineering                   fax:     (212) 353-4341
The Cooper Union for the Advancement   
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