CCL: ICQC shame



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Re: zborowsk <=> Therein lies part of the problem. Perhaps CCL should dedicate a part of their platform to related social issues such as these. Theoretical Chemistry does not exist in a vacuum. Social issues do impact it, do not tell me that the contribution of women, blacks or other minorities (or from your vantage position that may even include Roma peoples too) should be ignored - for that matter, you are also saying that their labor could be appropriated.
 
Is Theoretical Chemistry to be the preserve of a small unique privileged group.
 
And BTW, for Krzysztof K. Zborowski the issue here is not "sex" but "gender" inequality as a representational issue.
 
Granted that the space should be dedicated to Theoretical Chemistry, but had this commentary, which is of importance to the community gone without your further commentary, this would not be continuing.
 Thanks!
 On 2/15/2014 5:12 PM, zborowsk zborowsk-*-chemia.uj.edu.pl wrote:
 
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 Well,
 could we talk about theoretical chemistry, not about sex....??
 Please
 
W dniu 2014-02-16 01:10, Salter-Duke, Brian James brian.james.duke|a|gmail.com napisaÅ(a):
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 I fully agree that this is not acceptable. I trust that the three poeple
 sponsoring this, particularly Prof. Emily Carter, who is a member of the
 Academy, have made their views known to the Academy directly. Major
 international conferences should make sure there is a reasonable balance
 between men and women as well as from all countries in the world when
 selecting speakers.
 Brian Duke
 On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 02:57:48PM -0800, Kadir Diri
 dirikadir[a]gmail.com wrote:
 
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 Dear Colleagues,
 I am posting this message on behalf of professor Anna Krylov -one of
 the many outstanding women in theoretical chemistry- regarding the
 choice of speakers for the upcoming ICQC conference.
 I would always like to think of us, scientists, as some of the
 leading figures in the fight for gender equality. I wish the choice
 of speakers for this conference was just a statistical abnormality.
 Even that would be unacceptable...
 Professor Krylov's message follows below.
 Best regards,
 Kadir
 ---
 Dear Colleague:
 It happened again ---  another major theoretical chemistry
 conference features an all-male program. One of us began boycotting
 such conferences 14 years ago and can't believe that 14 years later
 we are still seeing such overt discrimination. This time it is the
 15th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC,
 http://www.icqc2015.org)
 conducted under the auspices of
 International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
 (http://www.iaqms.org), which
 will be held in Beijing, China. As of
 02/15/2014, the program features 24 invited speakers and 5 chairs
 and honorary chairs and does not include a single woman.
 Are there no women in theoretical chemistry? Hardly. The Women in
 Theoretical Chemistry web-directory (http://iopenshell.usc.edu/wtc)
 lists more than 300 female scientists holding tenured and tenure
 track academic positions or equivalent positions in industry and
 other research establishments pursuing research in theoretical and
 computational chemistry, biochemistry, material science, as well as
 theoretical molecular/atomic physics and biophysics. Many of these
 women are far more distinguished than many of the men being invited
 to speak at these conferences.
 Feeling as fed up and frustrated as we do? Add your voice to ours by
 signing this open letter (http://chn.ge/NQGKUc) denouncing this
 biased practice, which we had hoped would be obsolete long ago (it
 will take less than a minute).
 Thank you for your for your support.
 Prof. Emily Carter, Princeton University
 Prof. Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota
 Prof. Anna Krylov, University of Southern CaliforniaConferences:
 http://server.ccl.net/chemistry/announcements/conferences/>;
 
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    Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) Brian.Salter-Duke/a\monash.edu
                     Adjunct Associate Professor
             Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
 
Monash University Parkville Campus, VIC 3052, Australia>> To recover the email address of the author of the message, please change> Conferences: http://server.ccl.net/chemistry/announcements/conferences/--
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKmW1cLzo8Q
 Krzysztof K. Zborowski
 Faculty of Chemistry
 Jagiellonian University
 3 Ingardena Street
 30-060 Krakow
 Poland
 phone: +48(12)632-4888 ext. 2064 or 2067
 fax:  +48(12)634-05-15
 email: zborowsk,chemia.uj.edu.pl
 gg 3817259
 skype kzys70
 
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