From chemistry-request ":at:" server.ccl.net Fri Dec 14 15:13:44 2001 Received: from magnum.cooper.edu ([199.98.16.4]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with SMTP id fBEKDei07040 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:13:43 -0500 Received: from robin.cooper.edu by magnum.cooper.edu with SMTP id AA02612 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:13:45 -0500 Received: from localhost by robin.cooper.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA13888; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:13:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:13:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert Q. Topper" To: chemistry.,at,.ccl.net Cc: TOPPER ROBERT Subject: ECCC8 January 18 deadline: Call for Papers Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ECCC8 Reminder of January 18 Deadline for Abstracts Dear colleagues, This is to remind you that abstracts for ECCC8, the Eighth Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference, are due by January 18, 2002 at http://eccc8.cooper.edu . Free online registration is now open and abstracts may be submitted online after registration. As in previous years, the conference is multidisciplinary and covers all aspects of computational and theoretical chemistry, as well as computational molecular biology, computational and theoretical molecular and atomic physics, visualization, cheminformatics and the history of computational chemistry. Participants will be able to view the presentations and discuss them entirely through a web browser. As with the previous seven ECCCs, ECCC8 has NO registration fee and is a completely virtual, online conference. Abstracts for all contributions to ECCC8 will be reviewed by the Scientific Organizing Committee to insure novelty, scientific value, and appopriateness for inclusion in the conference. Presentations must be made in HTML format, and ideally will take full advantage of the interactive nature of the World-Wide Web to present their findings and conclusions. In addition to completed work, work in progress is also acceptable for an ECCC8 presentation. Authors may choose to either serve their contributions from their own local web site, or may request us to upload them to the ECCC8 server. Uploaded contributions will be removed from the ECCC8 server at the end of ECCC8. All authors are additionally encouraged to submit their work for peer review and subsequent publication in the ECCC8 Proceedings. Current plans call for the Proceedings to be published in Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, with the accompanying presentations permanently archived on TCA's web site. This peer review will be separate from, and in addition to, the review of abstracts for the presentations. Detailed general information on Theoretical Chemistry Accounts can be found at the TCA web site: http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00214/index.htm As in ECCC7, a single weeklong "interactive" session will be part of the conference. This session will be held via asynchronous postings of questions to the conference site, which authors can choose to receive either at the site, at their personal email account, or both. All authors must commit to having at least one co-author available (i.e. checking the discussion board at least daily) during the "interactive" session to provide timely responses (within approximately 24 hours) to any questions that conferees may have about their online presentation. Failure to participate fully in the interactive session may result in a presentation being withdrawn from the conference. Important dates for ECCC8 are: November 9, 2001 - Registration opens; call for papers January 18, 2002 - Abstracts due February 27, 2002 - Final online presentations due March 4, 2002 - Conference begins March 18, 2002 - Interactive Session begins March 24, 2002 - Interactive Session ends April 1, 2002 - ECCC8 ends April 30, 2002 - Contributions to proceedings due from authors Please note that presentations which are not completely ready by the beginning of the conference may be considered to be withdrawn. Complete details on how the conference will operate, abstract submission, and conference registration will be found at http://eccc8.cooper.edu We invite all interested parties to contribute to ECCC8 and participate. Please share this announcement with your colleagues and post it wherever appropriate so that ECCC can continue to thrive and be a vital meeting for the international computational chemistry community. ECCC cannot, and will not, continue without your active participation. Please feel free to email me at topper-: at :-cooper.edu with your questions or comments. Robert Q. Topper Department of Chemistry School of Engineering The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 51 Astor Place New York, NY 10003