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The Division serves a diverse membership and applies the latest innovations in theoretical chemistry to the experimental, physical, and biological sciences. Our members actively support education, outreach, professional development, and career growth. In addition, we utilize a variety of venues and tools to present, discuss, and publish the latest trends and results from computational scientists in all areas of research. If you are not a member, please join us!
Congrats to Rommie for wining the Presidents early career award!
President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists
2011 COMP Fall Newsletter
2011 COMP Election
The election this year will be held electronically via a Survey Monkey ballot. This ballot will be sent to your ACS e-mail address. If you have blocked e-mail from ACS or from Survey Monkey, you will not see the ballot. If you are looking to vote and are a COMP member, but have not seen the ballot, please contact the Secretary.
Biographies for election candidates
See Link below for a copy of the proposed revisions to the COMP Bylaws:
Revised Draft of COMP Bylaws
"What’s in a Name?"...an article concerning Emilio Esposito's impact on COMP Programming.
"The ACS meeting in Boston is in full swing, with hundreds of technical sessions taking place. Glancing through the meeting program, you start to notice a few things about the session titles—some are functional, inviting, dull, puzzling, bizarre. It makes you wonder who comes up with the names for symposia anyway." Read More...
2010 COMP Election Results
Chair-Elect: Jeffry Madura
Councilor: Emilio Esposito
Secretary: Ed Sherer
COMP's Technical Program for Boston ACS
The technical program for the Fall 2010 ACS Meeting in Boston can be found in the following pdfs:
A Note to our members
The COMP Division is greatly saddened by the news that Warren DeLano suddenly passed away at his home on Tuesday morning, November 3rd, 2009. His numerous contributions to computational chemistry, biophysics and biological sciences continue to drive science. His advocacy for freely available software and the Open Source movement, put into action with his Open Source molecular graphics program PyMOL, has been pioneering. PyMOL must be the most common graphics tool in the molecular graphics community, both in industry and academia. His brilliant mind and vibrant personality will be sorely missed. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.
The Delano family has created a website in memory of Warren; they ask everyone to post memories of Warren to the blog.
Celebrating Computational Biology: A Tribute to Frank Blaney
St. Catherine's College, Oxford
September 12 - September 15, 2010
This scientific meeting will be held to honour the work done by Frank Blaney, a well-known computational chemist who has worked for many years in the pharmaceutical industry. Within the world of molecular modelling, particularly in respect of drug discovery, Frank is an almost legendary figure who has done some very smart things. The intention of the organizers has been to assemble a world class group of scientists who will discuss their work at the forefront of efforts to apply computers in solving a broad range of problems in the biological sciences.
2010 Spring ACS National Meeting
The COMP symposia for the Spring 2010 ACS National Meeting (March 21st to 25th, 2010) in San Francisco are:
- Advances in Conformational Sampling (Oral)
- Drug Discovery (Oral)
- Generalized Ensemble Simulation Methods (Oral)
- Molecular Mechanics (Oral)
- Molecular Pharmaceutics (Oral)
- Quantum Chemistry (Oral)
- Scripting & Programming (Oral)
- Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift (Oral)
- Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award (Poster)
- Hewlett-Packard Scholar Awards (Poster)
- Poster Session (Poster)
As you maybe aware, the ACS has retired OASYS and is now using PACS for abstract submission. To submit an abstract you will need to use your ACS ID at http://abstracts.acs.org. Abstract submission deadline is October 19th, 2009.
Please allow extra time to submit your abstract as this is a new system. Instructions on how to obtain an ACS ID are provided on the main page of the PACS website (http://abstracts.acs.org).
See you in San Francisco
Jeffry D. Madura & Emilio Xavier Esposito
Programming Chairs for the COMP Division
2011 ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research
We are very happy to announce that nominations are now open for the 2011 ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research! Please check out this link for information on the Award and nomination form:
The COMP Executive Committee considers this Award to be a very important instrument in recognizing outstanding achievements of scientists that belong to our community and we have taken explicit measures this year to ensure this Award will be presented in 2011.
New ACS Fellows
The COMP Division would like to congratulate the six members of our Division who have been selected for the first (2009) class of ACS Fellows. These members share a common set of accomplishments, namely true excellence in their contributions to the chemical enterprise coupled with distinctive service to ACS or to the broader world of chemistry. We thank them for their commitment and service.
Michelle M. Francl
Bryn Mawr College
Kendall N. Houk
University of California, Los Angeles
William L. Jorgensen
Yale University
Peter C. Jurs
Pennsylvania State University
David C. Spellmeyer
Nodality
Gregory A. Voth
University of Utah
2009 ACS COMP Division Elections
The elections for open positions in the COMP executive committee have been concluded and the outcome is as follows:
- Chair 2011: Kate Holloway
- Councilor 2010-2012: Carlos Simmerling
- Councilor 2010-2012: Peter Jurs
- Alternate Councilor 2010-2012: Adrian Roitberg
- Alternate Councilor 2010-2012: Rommie Amaro
We thank all the candidates for their willingness to run and serve the Division's membership. In that light we also want to gratefully acknowledge the other candidates who ran, Luke Achenie and Bill Swope.
The latest news from the Division includes:
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