Applications and Methodology of Molecular Simulation in the Physical and
Biological Sciences
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    -- An International Conference in Electronic Format sponsored by Gordon
and Breach --

Conference Chair: Professor Nick Quirke, Imperial College, Editor-in-Chief,
Molecular Simulation Journal

Dates: 19 April - 4 May '99

URL: http://molsim.vei.co.uk/

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** Now calling for PAPERS - Submit your abstract via the on-line form at
http://molsim.vei.co.uk/submissions/index.html
N.B. Deadline for abstracts = 1 March 1999

** FREE Registration to attend the conference now available - Fill in the
form at
http://molsim.vei.co.uk/register/index.html
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___DESCRIPTION___
The international journal Molecular Simulation is sponsoring a virtual
conference on the latest applications and
techniques in the field. The conference will bring together experts, in a
wide range of disciplines encompassed
within the physical and biological sciences, using molecular simulation and
related techniques. An important aim
of the meeting is to foster cross fertilisation of ideas, algorithms and
applications between them. Sessions will
include papers on topics in physics, chemistry, materials science, biology
and pharmacology. Comment and
discussion will be encouraged and the resulting material will be edited and
form part of the proceedings.

The format of the virtual conference will be formal sessions with invited
and contributed papers, posters and
subsequent interactive discussions with authors, where comment and
criticism will be sought on the formal lectures
(along the lines of a Faraday Discussion). During the conference all
material will be accessible at the conference Web site and accepted papers
will be published after the end of the conference (following refereeing and
editing) in Molecular Simulation.


___TOPICS, CHAIRS and SPEAKERS___
The six sections will cover the following topics.  Also find listed the
chairs for each topic and some of the invited speakers confirmed so far.

Applications: 

1. Frontiers of Materials Science
	Chairs: Prof. Alain Fuchs, Prof. C R A Catlow
	Invited Speakers: 

2. Novel Applications in Chemistry and Physics
	Chairs: Prof Donald Brenner, Dr. Deepak Srivastava
	Invited Speakers:

3. Computer based Modelling, Simulation, and Analysis of Biological and
Pharmacological Systems
	Chairs: Prof. Graham Richards, Dr. Jeffrey L. Nauss
	Invited Speakers: Steve Doughty, Vijay Gombar, Ian Haworth, Prof. Mati
Karelson, Dave Winkler 

    
Methodology: 

4. Advances in Mesoscale Simulation Methodology
	Chairs: Dr. Julia Yeomans, Dr. Dave Nicolaides
	Invited Speakers: Bruce Boghosian, Hudong Chen, J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Anatoly
Malevanets

5. Non Equilibrium and Monte Carlo Simulation
	Chairs: J.M.D.MacElroy, B.E.Ph.D., Grant S. Heffelfinger, Ph.D.
	Invited Speakers: Prof. David M. Ford, Prof. Akira Miyamoto, Dr. David
Nicholson, Prof. Tomoshige Nitta, 				Dr. Aidan Thompson, Dr. Karl P. Travis, 
     
6. Advances in Quantum Simulation
	Chairs: Dr. Dominic King-Smith, Dr. M.C. Payne
	Invited Speakers: Mike Gillan, Pablo Ordejon, Dr. Mike Payne, Gustavo
Scuseria, Alain St-Amant

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I hope that this conference will be of interest to some people on the list.
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Yours sincerely,

Martha de Souza
VEI
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