CCL: 8th French-Japanese Workshop on Computational Methods in Chemistry

CCL members,
 We should appreciate the great holiday gift bequeathed to us, the rare
 appearance of Jim Kress. It is a holiday of macabre origins, not unlike a
 bizarro Groundhog Day.
 In fact, his presence here is somewhat like a time-stretched Punxsutawney
 Phil; when he pops his head out of his hole on (thankfully) increasingly
 rare occasions and casts his shadow on our e-mail inboxes, it means we need
 to spend another 6 years fighting for gender equity in our community.
 With regards,
 Nathan Seifert
 On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 11:10 AM Jim Kress jimkress35[#]gmail.com <
 owner-chemistry###ccl.net> wrote:
 >
 > Sent to CCL by: "Jim Kress" [jimkress35!A!gmail.com]
 > If you don't "approve" the list of speakers, don't attend.  The
 > conformation
 > of genitalia (or any other physical trait) is not a proper selection
 > criterion.
 >
 > Speakers should be chosen on the basis of accomplishments, not gender.
 >
 > Heaven forbid we actually live in a meritocracy.  If you provide a list of
 > females who should be exalted due to accomplishments, I'm sure the
 > organizers of the Workshop would be interested.
 >
 > Otherwise, you need to provide what you believe is an acceptable list that
 > is representative of the 26 genders you and your comrades have chosen to be
 > fashionable.
 >
 > Jim Kress
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: owner-chemistry+jimkress35==gmail.com_-_ccl.net
 > <owner-chemistry+jimkress35==gmail.com_-_ccl.net> On Behalf Of
 Kathrin
 > Helen
 > Hopmann kathrin.hopmann.:.uit.no
 > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 6:07 AM
 > To: Kress, Jim  <jimkress35_-_gmail.com>
 > Subject: CCL: 8th French-Japanese Workshop on Computational Methods in
 > Chemistry
 >
 >
 > Sent to CCL by: Kathrin Helen Hopmann [kathrin.hopmann..uit.no] Dear
 > Organizers of the 8th French-Japanese Workshop on Computational Methods in
 > Chemistry,
 >
 > I am sorry that I may have miscounted, it seems there is 1 female speaker
 > among the 19 confirmed invited speakers (perhaps I have misinterpreted some
 > of the other name and there are more?).
 >
 > I know it is not easy for conference organizers to ensure a gender-balanced
 > program. But we need to talk about this problem sometimes, so that we can
 > find out how we can improve things.
 >
 > with best regards,
 > Kathrin Hopmann
 >
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: Kathrin Helen Hopmann
 > Sent: onsdag 18. desember 2019 11:27
 > To: 'CCL Subscribers' <chemistry^ccl.net>
 > Subject: RE: CCL: 8th French-Japanese Workshop on Computational Methods in
 > Chemistry
 >
 > Dear Organizers of the 8th French-Japanese Workshop on Computational
 > Methods
 > in Chemistry,
 >
 > I counted 19 confirmed invited speakers on your website.
 > Sadly, not a single of these seems to be a woman.
 >
 >
 > with best regards
 > Kathrin Hopmann
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: owner-chemistry+kathrin.hopmann==uit.no^ccl.net
 > > <owner-chemistry+kathrin.hopmann==uit.no^ccl.net> On Behalf Of
 > > Francois Berenger mlists(a)ligand.eu
 > Sent: onsdag 18. desember 2019 06:47
 > To: Kathrin Helen Hopmann <kathrin.hopmann^uit.no>
 > Subject: CCL: 8th French-Japanese Workshop on Computational Methods in
 > Chemistry
 >
 >
 > Sent to CCL by: "Francois  Berenger" [mlists- -ligand.eu]
 Registration for
 > the 8th French-Japanese Workshop on Computational Methods in Chemistry
 > (FJCMC2020) is open!
 >
 > Please consider joining us March 19th and 20th 2020 at Kumamoto university
 > (Japan).
 >
 > We will be lucky to have presentations by many prestigious speakers:
 > http://www.chem.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/~frjp2020/invited-speakers.html
 >
 > More information can be found at:
 > http://www.chem.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/~frjp2020/index.html
 >
 > The registration page is:
 > http://www.chem.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/~frjp2020/registration.html
 >
 > We are looking forward to meet you in Kumamoto, The
 > organizers.http://www.ccl.net
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