Conference Program
 
COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY

July 2-7, 2000
The Queen's College
Oxford, United Kingdom

Chair:
Terry R. Stouch

Vice Chair:
Bernard R. Brooks

CONTRIBUTORS

 

Sunday 2 July Afternoon
2:00 - 6:00Arrival and Check-in
4:00 - 6:00 Welcome reception (Hewlett Packard, sponsor)
6:00 - 7:20Dinner
7:20 - 7:30 Proceed to Lecture Hall School of Geography
Sunday 2 July EveningDrug Design
7:30 - 7:45Welcome
7:45 - 8:00Discussion Leader: Don Boyd (Indiana U.-Purdue U., Indianapolis)
8:00 - 8:30"Drug Discovery and Development...a game of 20 questions"
Dennis Underwood (DuPont Pharmaceuticals)
8:00 - 8:40Discussion
8:40 - 9:10"Molecular Modelling and Evolutionary Drug Design"
Marc de Jonge (Janssen Research Foundation)
9:10 - 9:20Discussion
9:30 Reception in appreciation of Mike Zerner (Schrodinger, Inc, sponsor)
Monday July 3 MorningSolvation
7:45 - 8:30Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45Proceed to Lecture Hall School of Geography
8:45 - 8:50Announcements and Business
8:50 - 9:05Discussion Leader: Shoshana Wodak (Free University Brussels)
9:05 - 9:35"Continuum solvation models for binding and recognition"
Mike Gilson (Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology)
9:35 - 9:45 Discussion
9:45 - 10:15"Protein hydration, stability and unfolding"
Julia Goodfellow (Birkbeck College)
10:15 - 10:25 Discussion
10:25 - 10:55Coffee/Tea
10:55 - 11:25"COSMO-RS: From Quantum Chemistry to Liquid Phase Thermodynamics"
Andreas Klamt (COSMOlogic)
11:25 - 11:35 Discussion
11:35 - 12:05"Rapid Monte Carlo Simulations in Water and Their Suitability for (ADME) Properties Prediction"
Erin M. Duffy (Pfizer)
12:05 - 12:15 Discussion
12:15 - 12:30General discussion
12:30 - 12:45Conference Photo
12:30 - 1:30Lunch
Monday 3 July Afternoon
1:30 - 4:30 Free
4:30 - 6:00Poster Session 1 - Organizer: Bernard Brooks
6:00 - 7:20Dinner
7:20 - 7:30 Proceed to Lecture Hall School of Geography
Monday July 3 Evening
7:30 - 8:30Discussion of the solvation session: Discussion Leader Shoshana Wodak
8:30 - 8:35Discussion Leader: TBA
8:30 - 9:05"Progress and problems in the prediction of organic crystal structures and polymorphism"
Sally Price (Univ. College London)
9:05 - 9:15 Discussion
Tuesday July 4 MorningAdvances in the use of Quantum Chemistry
7:45 - 8:30Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45Proceed to Lecture Hall School of Geography
8:45 - 8:50Announcements and Business
8:50 - 9:05Discussion Leader: Jimmy Stewart (Stewart Computational Chemistry)
9:05 - 9:35"Electron correlation techniques: triples and localization"
Martin Head-Gordon (U. C. Berkeley)
9:35 - 9:45 Discussion
9:45 - 10:15"Dynamics, Pathways, and Tunneling in Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions from Combined QM/MM Simulations"
Jiali Gao (U. Minnesota)
10:15 - 10:25Discussion
10:25 - 10:55 Coffee/Tea
10:55 - 11:25"QM/MM Car-Parrinello Simulations of Enzymes"
Ursula Rothlisberger (ETH Zentrum)
11:25 - 11:35 Discussion
11:35 - 12:05"Thermodynamics, Reaction Energies and Rates"
David Dixon (Pacific Northwest Laboratories)
12:05 - 12:15Discussion
12:15 - 12:30General discussion
12:30 - 1:30Lunch
Tuesday 4 July Afternoon
1:30 - 4:30 Free
4:30 - 6:00Poster Session 2 - Organizer: Bernard Brooks
6:00 - 7:20Dinner
7:20 - 7:30 Proceed to Lecture Hall School of Geography
Tuesday July 4 EveningNobel symposium
7:30 - 7:35Discussion Leader: TBA
7:35 - 8:05"Theoretical Chemical Models"
John Pople (Northwestern U.)

8:05 - 8:15 Discussion
8:15 - 8:45 "A Broader View of Van der Waals Energies"
Walter Kohn (U.C. Santa Barbara)
8:45 - 8:55 Discussion
8:55 - 9:25 "Information Theory, Density-Functional Theory, and the Chemical Bond: Atoms in Molecules from a Minimum Missing Information Principle"
Robert Parr (U. North Carolina)
9:25 - 9:35Discussion
Wednesday July 5 MorningAdvances in Polarizable Force Fields
7:45 - 8:30Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 Proceed to Lecture Hall School of Geography
8:45 - 8:50 Announcements and Business
8:50 - 9:05Discussion Leader: Wendy Cornell (Novartis)
9:05 - 9:35 "A Polarizable Force Field for Proteins Derived from Quantum and Experimental Data"
Thomas A. Halgren (Schrodinger, Inc.)
9:35 - 9:45 Discussion
9:45 - 10:15 "Reaching the Era of Structure and Free Energy in Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
Peter Kollman (U.C. San Francisco)
10:15 - 10:25 Discussion
10:25 - 10:55Coffee/Tea
10:55 - 11:25 "Computations of inter- and intramolecular interaction energies and nonadditive effects. Comparisons between ab initio and polarizable molecular mechanics results."
Nohad Gresh (Universite Rene-Descartes)
11:25 - 11:35 Discussion
11:35 - 12:05"Computer Simulation Studies of Interfaces Using Polarizable Potential Models"
Liem Dang (Pacific Northwest Laboratories)
12:05 - 12:15Discussion
12:15 - 12:30Nominations for Elections
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
Wednesday 5 July Afternoon
1:30 - 4:30 Free
4:30 - 6:00Poster Session 3 - Organizer: Bernard Brooks
6:00 - 7:20Dinner
7:20 - 7:30 Proceed to Lecture Hall School of Geography
Wednesday July 5 Evening
7:30 - 8:15Discussion of force fields and polarizability: Discussion Leader Wendy Cornell
8:15 - 10:00Discussion of the posters
Thursday July 6 MorningAdvances in Simulations
7:45 - 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45Proceed to Lecture Hall School of Geography
8:45 - 8:50Announcements and Business
8:50 - 9:05Discussion Leader: W. van Gunsteren (ETH Zentrum)
9:05 - 9:35"Long time dynamics of proteins"
Ron Elber (Cornell U.)
9:35 - 9:45Discussion
9:45 - 10:15"Assessing protein-ligand binding thermodynamics"
Charles Brooks (Scripps)

10:15 - 10:25Discussion
10:25 - 10:55 Coffee/Tea
10:55 - 11:25Mesoscale/Coarse Grained modeling: Title TBA
Dominic Tildesley (Unilever)
11:25 - 11:35Discussion
11:35 - 12:05 "Free Energy Simulations:Their Second Incarnation"
M. Karplus (University of Oxford)
12:05 - 12:15Discussion
12:15 - 12:30Elections
12:30 - 1:30Lunch
Thursday 6 July Afternoon
1:30 - 4:30 Free
4:30 - 6:00Poster Session 4 - Organizer: Bernard Brooks
6:00 - 7:20Dinner
7:20 - 7:30 Proceed to Lecture Hall School of Geography
Thursday July 6 Evening
7:30 - 7:45GRC Business
7:45 - 8:00Discussion Leader: John Carpenter
8:00 - 8:30"Hardware Options for the Computational Chemist: Status and Perspectives"
Martyn Guest
8:30 - 8:40Discussion
8:40 - 9:10 "Simulation of Inorganic Materials"
Richard Catlow (The Royal Institution)
9:10 - 9:20Discussion
9:20 - 9:50 "Structural Bioinformatics: Bridging the gap between Computational Chemistry and Genomics"
Michael Levitt (Stanford U.)
9:50 - 10:00Discussion
10:00 Reception (Chemical Computing Group, sponsor)

Last Updated: May 4, 2006