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Day 1 | Workshop Program/Synopsis... |
8:30 AM |
Welcome, Introductions & Announcements |
9:00 AM |
Introduction to Computational Chemistry: Historical Perspective and Recent Success Stories |
9:30 AM |
Internet Resources for Computational Chemistry |
10:00 AM |
Morning Refreshment Break |
10:30 AM |
Review & Comparison of Commercial Modeling Software |
11:30 AM |
Theory and Applications of Molecular Mechanics - I: Classical Force Fields |
12:00 Noon |
Non-Host Group Luncheon (catered) |
1:00 PM |
Theory and Applications of Molecular Mechanics - II: More About Classical Force Fields |
2:00 PM |
Demos & Supervised Hands-On Exercises: Build your own molecules! |
2:30 PM |
Afternoon Refreshment Break |
3:00 PM |
Geometry Optimization of Molecules |
4:00 PM |
Demos & Supervised Hands-On Exercises: Optimization of your molecular systems |
5:00 PM |
Day-1 Adjournment |
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Day 2 | Workshop Program... |
9:00 AM |
Review of Day-1 Highlights - Questions? |
9:30 AM |
Review of Basic Quantum Mechanics (Molecular Orbital) Theory |
10:30 AM |
Morning Refreshment Break (Well deserved after QM review!) |
11:00 AM |
QM Calculation Methods: Semiempirical, Ab Initio and Density Functional |
12:00 Noon |
Non-Host Group Luncheon (catered) |
1:00 PM | Demos & Supervised Hands-On Exercises: How to set up and carry out QM calculations... |
2:00 PM | Computer-Aided Drug Discovery (CADD) - Guest Speaker |
3:00 PM |
Afternoon Refreshment Break |
3:30 PM |
Demos & Supervised Hands-On Exercises: Building and optimizing more complex systems... |
5:00 PM |
Day-2 Adjournment |
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Day 3 | Workshop Program... |
9:00 AM | Review of Day-1&2 Highlights - Questions? |
9:30 AM | Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations - Theory |
10:30 AM | Morning Refreshment Break (Well deserved after MD review!) |
11:00 AM | Monte Carlo and Lagevin Dynamics |
11:30 AM | Molecular Dynamics in Practice - Periodic Boundaries, Ensembles, etc. |
12:00 Noon | Non-Host Group Luncheon (catered) |
1:00 PM | Demos & Supervised Hands-On Exercises: How to set up and carry out an MD (or MC) simulation... |
2:30 PM | Afternoon Refreshment Break |
3:00 PM | Extracting Useful Information from MD Simulations: More Demos... |
4:00 PM | Review and Q&A Session - Open Discussion |
5:00 PM | Workshop Adjournment |
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