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Call for oral abstracts – deadline 29 July 2013

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Call for oral abstracts – deadline 22 July 2013

We invite you to join us for Molecular Simulations and Visualization: Faraday Discussion 169, which will cover:

• virtual and augmented reality; immersive molecular simulations
• advanced visualization and visual analytics
• computing power revolution and new algorithms: GP-GPUs, clouds and more
• applications and serious games: from molecular docking to protein folding

Speakers include:

• Helmut Grubmüller, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
• Graham Johnson, University of California, San Francisco, USA
• David Glowacki, University of Bristol, UK
• Valerie Daggett, University of Washington, USA
• Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Vijay Pande, Stanford University, USA
• John Stone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Melanie Stegman, Federation of American Scientists, USA
• Jim Zheng, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
• Frederick Brooks, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• Thomas DeFanti, University of California, San Diego, USA

Faraday Discussions are a long-established series of meetings which provide a unique international platform for the exchange of views and newly acquired results in developing areas of physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and chemical physics.

All the presented papers and the discussion, including new research presented by any delegate, are published together in the Faraday Discussion volume. The latest Impact Factor is 5.0.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is a sister journal to Faraday Discussions. PCCP brings you content of the highest quality in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry.

We invite you to submit your research to PCCP today.

Recent articles from PCCP in this area include:

Anisotropy of the water–carbon interaction: molecular simulations of water in low-diameter carbon nanotubes
Guillermo Pérez-Hernández and Burkhard Schmidt
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44278K

Molecular simulations of green leaf volatiles and atmospheric oxidants on air/water interfaces
Thilanga P. Liyana-Arachchi, Christopher Stevens, Amie K. Hansel, Franz S. Ehrenhauser, Kalliat T. Valsaraj and Francisco R. Hung
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44090G

Molecular simulation and experimental studies of a mesoporous ZSM-5 type molecular sieve
Baoyu Liu, Yongbiao Wu, Defei Liu, Ying Wu, Hongxia Xi and Yu Qian
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP43900J

Modeling environment effects on spectroscopies through QM/classical models
Benedetta Mennucci
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44417A

Microsecond folding experiments and simulations: a match is made
M. B. Prigozhin and M. Gruebele
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP43992E

Professor Dr Marc Baaden and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to Nottingham in May 2014 for Molecular Simulations and Visualization: Faraday Discussion 169.

Call for oral abstracts – deadline 15 July 2013

We invite you to join us for Astrochemistry of Dust, Ice and Gas: Faraday Discussion 168, which will cover:

•             Observations on Dust, Ice and Gas relevant to Astrochemistry
•             Laboratory Astrochemistry of Dust and Ice
•             Astrophysical Modelling
•             New Directions in Solid and Surface Astrochemistry

Submit your abstract today via our new submission system.

You can find more details about submitting your abstract here

Confirmed speakers:

•             Professor Ewine van Dishoeck (Introductory), Leiden University, The Netherlands
•             Professor Eric Herbst (Closing), University of Virginia, USA
•             Dr Herma Cuppen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
•             Dr Jean-Hugues Fillion, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
•             Professor Liv Hornekær, Aarhus University, Denmark
•             Professor Nigel Mason, The Open University, UK
•             Dr Bérengère Parise, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany
•             Dr Klaus Pontoppidan, Space Telescope Science Institute, USA
•             Professor Helmut Zacharias, Universität Münster, Germany

Professor Martin McCoustra and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to Leiden in April 2014 for Astrochemistry of Dust, Ice and Gas: Faraday Discussion 168.

*Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 17 August 2012*

Submit now to events@rsc.org

Photochemistry and molecular photophysics have been highly active fields of research for more than half a century; however, during the last two decades synergistic advances in experimental technology and computational methodology have led to a renewed interest in understanding photochemistry and photophysics at the quantum level – photo-initiated quantum molecular dynamics. One of the grand challenges for the 21st century is to develop such a detailed understanding of energy flow in molecules, following the absorption of a photon, that we can begin to develop the knowledge and tools to control photochemistry. Photo-initiated Quantum Molecular Dynamics: Faraday Discussion 163 will involve spectroscopy and dynamics, experiment and theory, with themes including:

• Single molecules: photochemistry and photophysics in isolated molecular systems
• Extended systems: photochemistry and photophysics of chromophores in proteins, solution or clusters
• Controlling molecular dynamics: controlling photochemistry using sequences of light pulses, shaped light pulses or bond selection prior to photoexcitation
• Applications of molecular dynamics to global challenges: photovoltaic cells, photodynamic therapy, imaging.

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Professor Albert Stolow (Introductory), National Research Council, Canada
• Professor Graham Fleming (Closing), University of California – Berkeley, USA
• Professor Phil Bucksbaum, Stanford University, USA
• Professor Joachim Burgdörfer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Professor Wolfgang Domcke, Technische Universitat Munchen,  Germany
• Professor Bob Field (Robert W Field), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Professor Dr Jennifer Herek, Twente, Netherlands
• Professor Dr Eberhard Riedle, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany
• Professor Ursula Rothlisberger, EPFL, Switzerland
• Professor  Greg Scholes, University of Toronto, Canada

Faraday Discussions are a long-established series of meetings which provide a unique international platform for the exchange of views and newly acquired results in developing areas of physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and chemical physics. The Discussion is a dynamic forum for developing and exchanging exciting new ideas, and both the papers and discussion will be published in a final printed volume. The latest Impact Factor is 5.0.

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation by the 17^th August to events@rsc.org adding ‘FD163 abstract’ in the subject line. We hope to see you at this exciting Faraday Discussion meeting next year.

Faraday Discussions is a sister journal to Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP). PCCP brings you content of the highest quality in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry. With high-impact research, and a truly international readership, PCCP is the ideal place to publish. We invite you to submit your research to PCCP today.

Read these PCCP themed issues:

Ultrafast chemical dynamics
Guest Editors: Klaas Wynne and Neil T. Hunt
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, Issue 18

Electronic energy transfer
Guest Editor: Anthony Harriman
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, Issue 27

Analysis and control of ultrafast photon-induced processes
Guest Editors: Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký, Nikolaus Ernsting, Joshua Jortner, Jörn Manz, Eckart Rühl and Ludger Wöste
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, Issue 19