High Performance Computing and Grand Challenges in Structural Biology

[David Moncrieff]

                     FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WORKSHOP
 			    (Ammended notice)


                        HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
                                  AND
                  GRAND CHALLENGES IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

               Florida State University, 24-27 January 1992
                         Tallahassee, Florida

  

Sponsors: 


  The Structural Biology Program and the Supercomputer Computations Research 

Institute (SCRI) at  Florida State University.    


Speakers:

Axel T. Brunger (Yale)			Ken A. Dill (UCSF) 

William A. Goddard III (Cal Tech)       Robert Langridge (UCSF)	 

Richard A. Friesner (Columbia)          Michael Levitt (Stanford)

Arnold T. Hagler (Biosym)		Herbert Hauptman (Buffalo)             

Peter A. Kollman (UCSF)			Robert L. Jernigan (NIH)              

James A. McCammon (Houston)		Barry Honig (Columbia)                 

Peter A. Kollman (UCSF)			Phillip Phillips (MIT)	 

Dennis R. Salahub (Montreal)		John D. Joannopoulos (MIT)            

Harold A. Scheraga (Cornell)		William L. Jorgensen (Yale)            

Klaus Schulten (Illinois)		Martin Karplus (Harvard)               

Arieh Warshel (USC)			Peter Wolynes (Illinois)


  Presentations will be  given by the following computer companies that are 

designing massively parallel computers with Teraflop capabilities : 


    Cray Research                Kendall Square Research 

    IBM                          Thinking  Machines 

    Intel


  Presentations will be given also by the following agencies on their 

role and policies regarding the new High Performance Computing Initiative:

            NSF   NIH   DOE    


  The aim of the workshop is to bring together the leading scientists 

from academia, industry, and government agencies to discuss the role of 

large-scale parallel computing in Theoretical Structural Biology.


  The scientific focus of the workshop will be on structure/function 

relations in  biological macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic
  
acids and will include:  

(1) structure determination and the protein folding problem

(2) molecular recognition / drug design, and
  
(3) catalysis, i.e. enzyme reaction mechanisms and electron/proton

    transfer processes.      



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

  The number of participants is limited to 150-200.  The registration fee is 

$250.00 which will cover: (a)  welcoming  reception, (b) 3 breakfasts, 

(c) 3 lunches, and (d) one  dinner. The workshop will be held over a weekend 

so that airfares  will be quite reasonable, $350.00 - $500.00 for 21 days 

advance purchase. The hotel rate is $54 (single or double occupancy) per night.

  The organizers would like to encourage participation of graduate students 

and post-doctoral fellows. We hope to be able to provide some financial 

support to a selected number of individuals of this group.

  There will be at least one poster session during the workshop. Please 

indicate below if you would like to give a poster.
  


For additional information, contact: 

Paul Bash, Department of Chemistry,
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306.  

Email address: bash at ibm4.scri.fsu.edu
Tel: (904)-644-2492, FAX: (904)-644-8281  

or 

Hagai Meirovitch, Supercomputer Computations Research Institute,  
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052. 

Email address: hagai at scri1.scri.fsu.edu  
Tel: (904)-644-7032, FAX: (904)-644-0098.


TO BE INCLUDED ON THE WORKSHOP MAILING LIST:

Please e-mail the following information via internet:

   		biotera-planning at scri.fsu.edu

        


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David Moncrieff                             				
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, B-186,
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4052, USA.
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