Semiempirical symposium at New Orleans ACS meeting in 1996

 Dear Colleagues and Friends,
    I am in the process of preparing a presenter's list for the
 "Semiempirical
 Methods: Do They Have a future?" symposium that I have been asked to
 organize
 at the 1996 Spring ACS meeting in New Orleans.  My ambition is to have a large
 symposium discussing all aspects of APPLICATIONS of semiempirical methodology,
 and where it fits into the computational chemistry big picture.  Since John
 McKelvey is organizing a symposium on parameterization and theory at the
 immediately preceding meeting (August 1995 in Chicago), I think it would be
 useful for this set of talks to focus on how we USE semiempirical methods and
 how we WILL USE them in the future.  Thus the title of the symposium.
    I have already collected a set of very important and worthwhile speakers
 (of which, I, of course am not included, see below), but I would like to open
 up the symposium for a few contributed talks and a poster session on the same
 topic, if there is enough interest.
    Note also that I have spoken with Cliff Dykstra at IUPUI and he has agreed
 to do a special issue of THEOCHEM with papers from the symposium.  The FIRM
 DEADLINE for the receipt of papers in my hands will be one month after the
 symposium.
    If you would like to present a poster or talk (first-come, first-served on
 these) please let me know as soon as possible.  The deadline for abstracts in
 MY HANDS is October 20, 1995, so please be aware of the time constraints under
 which we are operating.  Also, please let me know your preference for oral or
 poster and whether are not you are interested in contributing your work to the
 THEOCHEM issue.
 I look forward to a scientifically meaningful and interesting meeting.
 Please feel free to pass this on to colleagues that do not subscribe to any of
 the several mail exploders on which I posted this message.  Also, please
 excuse me for multiple copies if you get it from more than one place.
 Best regards, Andy Holder
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 Current Confirmed Speakers
 James J.P. Stewart  *  Stewart Computational Chemistry
 George Famini  *  US Army ERDEC
 Charles Reynolds  *  Rohm & Haas Research Corp.
 William Welsh  *  Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis
 Kerwin Dobbs  *  DuPont
 Robert Pearlman  *  University of Texas at Austin
 Michael Zerner  *  U. of Florida
 Yvonne Martin  *  Abbott Laboratories
 Douglas Dudis  *  Wright Patterson AFB
 Joe Dannenberg  *  Hunter College, CUNY
 Donald B. Boyd  *  Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
 David Danovich  *  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 George Ford  *  Southern Methodist Univ.
 Christopher J. Cramer  *  University of Minnesota
 Donald Truhlar  *  University of Minnesota
 Daniel Liotard  *  Univ. Bordeaux
 Eamon Healy  *  St. Edwards Univ.