Subject: ECCC7 in April 2001

From: "Prof. Robert Q. Topper" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:34:26 -0500 (EST)

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to announce that the Seventh Electronic Computational
Chemistry Conference (ECCC7) will be held from 
April 2 through April 30, 2001, entirely on the Internet. 
The conference will be hosted by the
Chemistry Department and the Computer Center of the Cooper Union
School of Engineering. 

As in previous years, the conference is multidisciplinary and 
covers all aspects of computational chemistry and biology, as 
well as computational atomic and molecular physics. Participants 
will be able to view articles and discuss them entirely through 
a web browser. As with the previous ECCCs, ECCC7 has NO registration fee. 

All contributions to ECCC7 will be reviewed by the conference 
Scientific Organizing Committee to insure
novelty, scientific value, and appropriateness for inclusion
in the conference. Authors may choose to either
serve their contributions from their own local web site, or 
upload them to the ECCC7 server. In addition, authors may choose 
to prepare their contribution either as a "poster" or a "paper." 
At the end of the conference, "papers" will be submitted to the
Internet Journal of Chemistry (http://www.ijc.com), the official
ECCC7 journal, for review and publication. "Posters" will be 
removed from the server at the conclusion of the conference.

Unlike previous ECCCs, a single weeklong "interactive" session 
will be part of the conference. This session
will be held via asynchronous postings of questions to the 
conference site, which authors can choose to
receive either at the site, at their personal email account, 
or both. All authors should commit to having at
least one coauthor available during the interactive session 
to provide timely responses (within approximately
24 hours) to any questions that conferees may have about 
their online presentation. Failure to participate in
the interactive session may result in the "poster" or 
"paper" being withdrawn from the conference.

Important dates for ECCC7 are: 

       February 23, 2001 - Abstracts of "posters" and "papers" due 
       March 5, 2001 - Registration opens 
       March 26, 2001 - Final "papers" and "posters" due 
       April 2, 2001 - Conference begins 
       April 19, 2001 - Interactive Session begins 
       April 26, 2001 - Interactive Session ends 
       April 30, 2001 - Conference ends 

Please note that the deadline for receipt of an abstract for 
the conference is February 23, 2001. Please also
note that "posters" and "papers" which are not completely 
ready by the beginning of the conference may be
considered to be withdrawn. 

A website to promulgate information about the conference 
has been set up at
http://www.cooper.edu/engineering/chemechem/ECCC7. 
Complete details on how the conference will operate, 
abstract submission, and conference registration will
soon be found there and at the conference URL (which 
will be announced in the near future as soon as the
conference server is operational). 

We invite all interested parties to contribute to ECCC7
and participate. We also welcome input from all
concerned parties to help make ECCC7 a success.

Robert Topper, Department of Chemistry 
Chair, ECCC7 Scientific Organizing Committee
[email-masked]

Bob Hopkins and Chris Lent, Cooper Union Computer Center
Co-Chairs, ECCC7 Web Organizing Committee

Albert Nerken School of Engineering
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
51 Astor Place 
New York, NY 10003 

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Steven Bachrach
Department of Chemistry
Trinity University
715 Stadium Drive
San Antonio, TX 78212
[email-masked]
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