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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 21 2009 - 12:54:04 CDT

Dear VMD-L,
  Carlos Simmerling asked me to pass on this announcement
regarding ACS awards for the Spring ACS meeting in San Francisco:

--- Forwarded message from Carlos Simmerling <carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com> ---
From: Carlos Simmerling <carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:51:09 -0400
Subject: ACS awards application announcements, please send to vmd lists etc.
To: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>

   Link: File-List

   The ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry is offering 3 awards for the
   Spring ACS national meeting in San Francisco.

   1) Outstanding junior faculty award (tenure-track)
   2) CCG Research excellence award (grad student, money award)
   3) Graduate award in supercomputing (grad student, supercomputer time
   award).

   Application deadlines are October 19, 2009

   Details are below, please feel free to pass them on.
   Carlos

   CCG

   Five $1,150 CCG Excellence Student Travel Award Stipends Available for the
   Spring 2009 Salt Lake City ACS National Meeting

   *

   The CCG Excellence Awards have been created to stimulate graduate student
   participation in ACS COMP Division activities (symposia and poster
   sessions) at ACS National Meetings. Those eligible for a CCG Excellence
   Award are graduate students in good standing who present work within the
   COMP program, either in oral or poster format. Winners receive $1,150, as
   well as a copy of CCG's MOE (Molecular Operating Environment) software
   with a one-year license. They are also honored during a ceremony at the
   COMP Division Poster Session.

   *

   The awardees are chosen on the basis of the quality and significance of
   the research to be presented, as well as the strength of the supporting
   letter and other materials. All graduate students of the Americas (North,
   South or Central) are encouraged to submit applications. Awards will be
   given only to those individuals making presentations, not co-authors.

   *

   To apply for an award for the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA,
   March 21-25, 2009, an extended abstract of the work (no more than 2
   pages), a two page CV along with a letter of support from the research
   advisor, and a personal statement (no more than 1 page) should be sent as
   pdf or text files (no other formats accepted) to
   carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com. There is a limit of one application per
   research lab (PI).

   *

   IMPORTANT: APPLICATION MATERIALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5PM EASTERN TIME ON
   OCTOBER 19, 2009.

   *

   Applicants will receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you
   do not receive confirmation by October 20, 2009, please contact the
   organizer immediately by telephone (see below).

   *

   In addition, you must submit your normal poster abstract to the "Chemical
   Computing Group Excellence Award" symposium on the ACS PACS system (the
   COMP deadline is October 19, 2009).

   *

   More information on awards offered by the ACS COMP division can be found
   on the web site at http://www.acscomp.org/Awards/index.html

   *

   Carlos Simmerling

   Chair, ACS COMP Division Awards Committee

   *

   Professor, Department of Chemistry

   Stony Brook University

   Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400

   631-384-9248

   carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com

   *

   -----------------------------------------

   *

   Junior Faculty award

   *

   The ACS COMP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award program provides $1,000 to
   each of four outstanding tenure-track junior faculty members to present
   their work in COMP symposia at ACS National Meetings.* The Awards are
   designed to assist new faculty members in gaining visibility within the
   COMP community.* Award certificates and $1,000 prizes will be presented at
   the COMP Poster session.* While special consideration will be given to
   Assistant Professors presenting work in the area of algorithm and methods
   development, applications for Outstanding Junior Faculty Awards are
   invited from all current tenure-track junior faculty who are members of
   ACS and the ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry.* Postdoctoral
   researchers in transition to faculty appointments may also be considered.*
   Selection criteria will include the novelty and importance of the work to
   be presented, as well as the level of Departmental support as indicated by
   a letter of support by the Chair or Chair designee.*

   *

   To apply for an award for the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA,
   March 21-25, 2009, an extended abstract of the work (no more than 2
   pages), a CV and the letter of departmental support should be sent as pdf
   or text files (no other formats accepted) to carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com

   *

   IMPORTANT: APPLICATION MATERIALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5PM EASTERN TIME ON
   OCTOBER 19, 2009.

   *

   Applicants will receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you
   do not receive confirmation by October 20, 2009, please contact the
   organizer immediately by telephone (see below).

   *

   In addition, you must submit your normal abstract to the "Outstanding
   Junior Faculty Award" symposium on the OASYS system (the COMP PACS
   deadline is October 19, 2009). Note that this is an abstract for the
   poster presentation. We also suggest that award applicants submit a
   separate abstract to OASYS for an oral presentation, in addition to their
   poster abstract (note that acceptance into the oral sessions is not
   guaranteed).

   *

   More information on awards offered by the ACS COMP division can be found
   on the web site at http://www.acscomp.org/Awards/index.html

   *

   *

   Carlos Simmerling

   Professor, Department of Chemistry

   Stony Brook University

   Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400

   631-384-9248

   carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com

   *

   -----------------------------------------

   Supercomputing

   Two *Graduate Student Awards in Supercomputing* to be awarded at the
   Spring 2009 San Francisco ACS National Meeting

   *

   The ACS Graduate Student Award in Supercomputing has been created to
   provide supercomputer resources to outstanding students in the early
   stages of their graduate career, particularly for projects that need high
   performance computing resources for their chemistry-related project. Those
   eligible for the award are graduate students in good standing who are
   carrying out research in the broadly defined area of computational
   chemistry. Winners (or their adviser, if necessary) will be the Principal
   Investigator of a new account on the *kraken* supercomputer at the
   National Institute of Computational Sciences (NICS). They will also be
   honored during a ceremony at the COMP Division poster session. Applicants
   are encouraged to present work within the COMP program at the meeting,
   either in oral or poster format.

   *

   The awardees are chosen on the basis of the significance of the project,
   potential impact of additional supercomputer resources, as well as the
   strength of the supporting letter and other materials.

   *

   Application requirements for the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco
   include an extended abstract of the work (no more than 1 page), a two page
   CV, a brief letter of support from the research advisor, and a 1 page
   computational plan indicating: computational resources already available
   for the project, the types of calculations to be performed, availability
   of software, justification of number and length of runs, and an estimate
   of the total time needed (up to 200,000 CPU hours maximum). For
   information about kraken, see
   http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/computing-resources/kraken. There is a limit
   of one application per research lab (PI).

   *

   IMPORTANT: APPLICATION MATERIALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5PM EASTERN TIME ON
   OCTOBER 19, 2009. These should be sent as pdf or text files (no other
   formats accepted) to carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com.

   *

   Applicants will receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you
   do not receive confirmation by October 20, 2009, please contact the
   organizer immediately by telephone (see below).

   *

   In addition, you must submit your normal poster abstract to the "poster
   session" symposium on the ACS PACS system (the COMP deadline is October
   19, 2009).

   *

   More information on awards offered by the ACS COMP division can be found
   on the web site at http://www.acscomp.org/Awards/index.html

   *

   Carlos Simmerling

   Chair, ACS COMP Division Awards Committee

   *

   Professor, Department of Chemistry

   Stony Brook University

   Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400

   631-384-9248

   carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com

   *

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