SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT:

We are pleased to announce that the 39th Midwest Conference on Theoretical Chemistry will be held at Indiana University in Bloomington June 28-30, 2007. Since their initiation at the University of Chicago in 1967, the Midwest theory meetings have provided us with an opportunity to celebrate theoretical chemistry in the Midwestern states. We hope to continue this tradition in 2007 in the beautiful Bloomington campus of Indiana University. As customary, the meeting will run from Thursday evening (June 28) to Saturday afternoon (June 30).

There will be 5 plenary lectures that will be spread through the conference, providing ample opportunity for the younger scientists, particularly graduate students and post-docs, to give shorter contributed talks or posters. We are happy and feel fortunate to announce the following list of confirmed plenary speakers:
Mark Ratner
Klaus Schulten
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Piotr Piecuch
Ernest Davidson

The conference website will be up next week, following a third announcement, at which time we will also open registration and abstract submissions. We plan to keep registration and abstract submission open through the last week of May.

We hope that you and your group members will plan to make yourself available to attend this conference. The success of this conference comes from the broad level of participation from the Midwestern theory groups that provides invaluable experience and exposure, particularly to graduate students and post-docs.

We look forward to what we hope will be an exciting meeting and hope to see you all in Bloomington June 28-30, 2007.

Best wishes,

Srinivasan Iyengar and Krishnan Raghavachari

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Srinivasan S. Iyengar                                                                     
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry,                             
Indiana University,                                                                        
Bloomington, IN  47405-7102                                                      
Phone: (812) 856-1875                                                                
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http://iyengar.chem.indiana.edu/                                                     

Krishnan Raghavachari
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN  47405-7102
Phone: (812) 856-1766
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http://raghavachari.chem.indiana.edu

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