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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 07 2011 - 10:45:17 CST

Dear VMD-L,
  Prof. Simmerling asked me to pass along this announcement regarding
applications for ACS awards:

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From: Carlos Simmerling <carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 08:11:34 -0500
Subject: please forward awards info
To: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>

   Hi John,
   please share this. thanks!
   carlos

   Applications are open for 3 types of awards from the ACS Division of
   Computers in Chemistry, to be awarded at the Fall 2011 national meeting in
   Denver. The deadline is 5pm EDT March 28, 2011.

   1) CCG Research Excellence award (graduate students)
   2) HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (tenure-track Assistant Professors)
   3) Peter Kollman Graduate Award in Supercomputing
    

   CCG Graduate student award

   CCG Research Excellence student travel award stipends are available for
   the Fall 2011 Denver 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 to offset their travel expenses,
   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. Up to 5 awardees will be 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. There is a limit of one CCG award
   application per research lab (PI). Previous winners are not eligible.

   To apply for an award for the ACS National Meeting in Denver, CO August
   28-September 1, 2011, 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
   a SINGLE pdf or text file to carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com. You must include
   your last name in the file name. Letters of support can be sent separately
   from the other materials.
    

   The application deadline is 5pm EDT on March 28, 2011. Applicants will
   receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not receive
   confirmation by March 30, 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 prior to the PACS deadline. Note that you MUST APPLY
   TWICE: email your application, and submit an abstract to PACS. Both must
   be submitted before their respective deadlines. Do not submit your PACS
   abstract to the standard poster session- it must be submitted for the CCG
   session or your application will not be considered.
    

   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
   631-632-1336
   carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com

   HP Junior Faculty Award

   The ACS COMP HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award program provides $1,000
   to up to 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 (untenured) 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, CV of the applicant, as well as the level of
   Departmental support as indicated by the applicant's department Chair or
   Chair designee.
    

   To apply for an award for the ACS National Meeting in Denver, CO August
   28-September 1, 2011, an extended abstract of the work (no more than 2
   pages), a CV and the letter of departmental support should be sent as a
   SINGLE pdf or text file to carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com. The departmental
   support letter can be sent separately if desired. You must include your
   last name in the file name.
    

   The application deadline is 5pm EDT on March 28. Applicants will receive
   email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not receive
   confirmation by March 30, please contact the organizer immediately by
   telephone (see below). In addition, you must submit your normal poster
   abstract to the "Outstanding Junior Faculty Award" symposium on the ACS
   PACS system prior to the PACS deadline. Note that you MUST APPLY TWICE:
   email your application, and submit an abstract to PACS. Both must be
   submitted before their respective deadlines. Do not submit your PACS
   abstract to the standard poster session- it must be submitted for the HP
   session or your application will not be considered.

    

   Note that the award application is for the poster session. If you want to
   also give an oral presentation, you must submit a separate abstract to
   PACS for an oral presentation in a relevant session, in addition to the
   poster abstract in the award section (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
   Chair, ACS COMP Division Awards Committee
   Professor, Department of Chemistry
   Stony Brook University
   Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
   631-632-1336
   carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com
    

   Supercomputing

    *Peter Kollman Graduate Award in Supercomputing* to be awarded at the
   Fall 2011 Denver ACS National Meeting.
    

   The ACS Peter Kollman Graduate 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* Cray XT5 supercomputer at
   the National Institute of Computational Sciences (NICS), with an
   allocation of computing time to support the project. For information about
   kraken, see http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/computing-resources/kraken.
   Allocations will be determined based on the requested amount and
   consideration of resource availability.

   Up to 2 awardees will be chosen on the basis of: the significance of the
   project plan, potential impact on the project of additional supercomputer
   resources, qualifications of the student, and the strength of the
   supporting letter and other materials. Projects with modest computational
   needs that can be performed on individual machines or small clusters will
   likely not be competitive. Application requirements 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 detailed 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, parallel scaling
   data, and an estimate of the total time needed. Submit the application to
   carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com as a SINGLE pdf or text file, and include your
   last name in the file name. There is a limit of one Supercomputing Award
   application per research lab (PI). Previous winners are not eligible.

    
   The application deadline is 5pm EDT on March 28, 2011. Applicants will
   receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not receive
   confirmation by March 30, please contact the organizer immediately by
   telephone (see below).
    

   Winners are encouraged but not required to present their work within the
   COMP program at the meeting, either in oral or poster format. If you want
   to present your work in an oral or poster presentation, you must also
   submit your abstract using the ACS PACS system, prior to the PACS
   deadline. Application for the supercomputing award does not constitute an
   application for a presentation.

   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
   631-632-1336
   carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com

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