Gromacs Workshop 2007
Finnish IT Center for Science
Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2007
http://www.csc.fi/chem/course/gmx2007/

This is the homepage of the upcoming three day Gromacs Workshop starting
on 27th February 2007, in Espoo, Finland. (6010'42.09"N, 2449'58.94"E)

Registration is now open. Register early, as space is limited.

The program outline will be the following. Before the actual Workshop
which starts on Tuesday there will be a basic tutorial for using Gromacs.

The hands-on tutorials can be chosen from the following topics:

    * free-energy simulations
    * membrane and membrane proteins
    * pull-code -atomic force microscopy simulations
    * kinetics analysis from simulations
    * parallel simulations
    * build your own linux cluster

The program will be updated when the details converge. If you're interested,
have a look at the previous course on 2004 here: Gromacs Workshop 2004

Tips on accommodation etc. can be found on the registration page:
http://www.csc.fi/suomi/koulutus/kurssi.phtml.fi?id=341
The Helsinki-Vantaa airport is some 30-45 minutes away from downtown
Helsinki by bus (3.6 EUR). Taxi will do the job faster but costs some
30 Eur. The course is arranged in collaboration with the ISB - National
Graduate School in Informational and Structural Biology.

Gromacs is a fast and versatile molecular dynamics package.
For details of the code, see the homepage http://www.gromacs.org

We are proud to present a Gromacs Worksop organised by the Gromacs developers,
CSC - Scientific Computing ltd, and ISB National Graduate School in
Informational and Structural Biology.

The workshop consists of lectures and hands-on tutorials. The lectures will
be recorded and put available in the web for everyone to reach.
Course program

The event starts with lectures on Tuesday morning at 09:15 and consists of
keynote and contributed talks. If you want to contribute, please contact
us and send an abstract for a poster/talk, see below. Topics that would
interest the audience probably span from method development to specific
case studies - anything you can do with Gromacs :)

The afternoons are dedicated to hands-on tutorial sessions and the topics
can be chosen of the following:

* free-energy simulations
* membrane and membrane proteins
* pull-code -atomic force microscopy simulations
* kinetics analysis from simulations
* parallel simulations
* build your own linux cluster

More details on the lectures and lecturers will be added here in the near
future.
Evening program

(On Monday evening: mixer.)
On Tuesday evening there will be a poster session at CSC.
On Wednesday evening a dinner will be served in a place to be announced.
On Thursday the program will end around 16:30.

Lecturers

Erik Lindahl, David van der Spoel and others from Gromacs developers, topped
up with contributed and keynote lectures from Andre Juffer, Ilpo Vattulainen
and ... to be announced.

A www-page for the course will be set up later.
Course logistics

The course starts 27.02.2007, at 14:00.

The last day for registration is 12.02.2007

The course will be held at the premises of CSC, Keilaranta 14, Keilaniemi,
Espoo, in the Auditorium (lectures) and classrooms "Dogmi" and
"multimedia-room" (hands-on tutorials).
Price

35 Eur / day for academics, 70 Eur / day for Government and non-profit
institutions, 105 Eur / day for industry / commercial participants.
hus, for example, the total price is 105 Eur for academics for the 3 days.

On Monday 26th before the Workshop we'll organise a half day "pre-workshop
tutorial" where the basic usage of Gromacs is gone through by means of
lectures and simple hands-on tutorials. Experienced users might want to
skip this. Attending this will cost half-a-day extra (20/ 40/ 60 Eur,
tick an appropriate box in the registration form).

The price includes course material, the course proceedings book, morning
and afternoon coffee, Wednesday dinner, and snacks and refreshments in
the evening sessions. To keep the costs down, lunch is not provided but
can be bought at a cafe for ~7-10 Eur.
More information
Deadline for submitting a poster/talk/short oral presentation abstract
(for it to be included in the proceedings) is the end of January 31.1.2007.
Please use this (RTF) template and send abstracts by email to
atte.sillanpaa at csc.fi

Participation to the workshop hands-on tutorials is limited to 40 due to
spatial constraints. The lectures can be attended by more people. A number
of places has been reserved for participants coming outside Finland.
Confirmation of registration will be sent individually by email. Due to
the limited number of places we encourage to register early.

We have only a limited number of workstations and laptops for the hands-on
tutorials. If possible, please bring your own laptop. You can run simulations
directly on it or then connect to our cluster via LAN / WLAN.

Accommodation

CSC has made an agreement with the hotel Helka (click the 'online' link)
(in the city center, easily reached by bus from CSC) to accommodate course
participants. Please use the online reservation page and insert the "GMX"
in the "promotional code" field. The prices are still open, but we don't
expect dramatic changes. This year singles were 108 Eur and doubles 139
Eur. We will update the prices here in early December. Please book your
rooms before 26th January 2007 at the latest as then our deal with Helka
closes.

For other options you can search for accommodation in Helsinki e.g. from
the following sites Eurohostel, Hotel Fenno, ...


Info on public transport: reittiopas (fi) public transport guide (en)
The Helsinki-Vantaa airport is some 30-45 minutes away from downtown
Helsinki by bus (3.6 EUR). Taxi will do the job faster but costs some 30 Eur.
Keilaranta can be easily reached by buses 102 and 103 from the Kamppi bus
station (downtown Helsinki).

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