Subject: 01.11.01 10th Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry, Jackson MS USA

From: "Yevgeniy Podolyan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:06:42 -0500

Dear Colleague:

This is a second announcement of the decennial Conference on Current
Trends in Computational Chemistry (CCTCC). This year, the meeting
organized annually by Jackson State University will be held at Jackson
Hilton Hotel, Jackson, Mississippi on November 1-3, 2001. The 10th CCTCC
will cover all areas of computational chemistry as well as quantum
chemistry.

The format consists of a series of plenary lectures and poster
presentations (Thursday 2pm - Saturday 7pm) covering applications as
well as theory. Within two and a half days we will accommodate 32 talks
of the previous CCTCC speakers as well as three poster sessions. The
scope of the talks will be different from the previous meetings. We have
asked invited speakers to cover the progress of their research areas
over the last decade. As usual, poster presentations will cover results
of current research activities.

I am also glad to inform you, that fourteen invited speakers contributed
their reviews to a special "Perspectives on a Decade of Trends in
Computational Chemistry" issue of THEOCHEM. This issue will appear in
October 2001, and will be distributed among all registered participants.

We are planning to publish extended abstracts (up to four pages each) of
all invited talks and poster presentations. Original scientific
contributions will be published in a special issue of the Journal of
Molecular Structure (THEOCHEM). Manuscripts for inclusion in the special
issue should be submitted in triplicate upon arrival at the registration
desk. Submitted papers will be subject to the journal's standard referee
procedures.

The detail information, registration forms and deadlines are available
at
the WebPage:  http://ccmsi.jsums.edu/cctcc/.

Sincerely,

Jerzy Leszczynski
Chairman of the Organizing Committee

                   List of Invited Oral Presentations

Rodney J. Bartlett - University of Florida, USA
Ab Initio DFT
 
David Buckingham - Cambridge University, UK
TBA 
 
Ernest R. Davidson - Indiana University, USA
The Cope Rearrangement in Theoretical Retrospect
 
Thom H. Dunning , Jr. - Pacific Northwest Laboratories, USA
TBA 
 
Clifford Dykstra - Indiana University, USA
Intermolecular Electrical Effects
 
Joseph S. Francisco - Purdue University, USA
The Atmospheric Chemistry of Halogens: Insights from Computational
Chemistry
 
Gernot Frenking - Phillips-Universitat Marburg, Germany
Insight into the Chemical Bond of Transition Metal Complexes
 
Nicholas C. Handy - Cambridge University, UK
Exchange and Correlation in Density Functional Theory
 
Istvan Hargittai - Budapest University of Technology, Hungary
Shifting Balance between Computation and Experiment
 
Herbert A. Hauptman (Noble Prize Laureate) - Hauptman-Woodward Medical
Research Institute, USA
(After-Dinner Noble Lecture Series)
X-Ray Crystallography. A History of Ideas
 
Kimihiko Hirao - University of Tokyo, Japan
Research Activities of Theoretical Chemistry Group at the University of
Tokyo:
Recent Advances in Multireference based Perturbation Theory and
Relativistic Molecular Theory
 
Kendall N. Houk - University of California Los Angeles, USA
Pericyclic Reaction Transition States
 
Yasuyuki Ishikawa - University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Relativistic Many-Body Perturbation Theory for Many-Electron Systems
 
William Jorgensen - Yale University, USA
Computational Studies for Protein-Ligand Binding and Drug Design
 
William Lester, Jr. - University of California at Berkeley, USA
Overview of Quantum Monte Carlo Developments for the Past Decade
 
William H. Miller - University of California at Berkeley, USA
Using Semiclassical Theory to Add Quantum Effects to Classical Molecular
Dynamics Simulations
 
Keiji Morokuma - Emory University, USA
TBA 
 
Vicent Ortiz - Kansas State University, USA
TBA 
 
Robert G. Parr - University of North Carolina, USA
What is an Atom in a Molecule?
 
Peter Politzer - University of New Orleans, USA
Computational Characterization of Energetic Materials
 
John A. Pople (Noble Prize Laureate) - Northwestern University, USA
Theoretical Chemical Models for 3rd Row Elements
 
Peter Pulay - University of Arkansas, USA
TBA 
 
Mario Raimondi - University of Milan, Italy
Developments and Applications of Modern Forms of Valence Bond Theories
and Related Methods
 
Krishnan Raghavachari - Bell Laboratories, USA
Electronic Structure Studies of Semiconductor Surface Chemistry 
 
Jean-Louis Rivail - Universite Henri Poincare, France
Liquid State Quantum Chemistry, More on Continuum Models
 
Andrzej Sadlej - Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
TBA 
 
Henry F. Schaefer, III - University of Georgia, USA
TBA 
 
Harold Scheraga - Cornell University, USA
Search for an Efficient Global Optimization Procedure for Protein
Folding
 
George C. Schatz - Northwestern University, USA
Electrodynamics of Metal Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Materials
 
Jack Simons - University of Utah, USA
Unusual Negative Molecular Ions and Dianions and Chemical Bonds
Involving Rydberg Orbitals
 
Donald Truhlar - University of Minnesota, USA
Quantum Mechanical Effects on Chemical Reaction Dynamics