From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Tue Jun 11 13:07:00 2019
From: "Cherif Farid Matta cherif.matta|*|msvu.ca" <owner-chemistry{=}server.ccl.net>
To: CCL
Subject: CCL: CHITEL/QUITEL2019 Congress, 25-30 Aug. 2019, Montreal - Canada
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:41:58 -0400


Sent to CCL by: "Cherif Farid Matta" [cherif.matta%a%msvu.ca]
Join us at CHITEL/QUITEL 2019: Meet prominent international theoretical chemists of Latin expression in Montreal (25-30 Aug. 2019)

Launched in 1969 by pioneering quantum chemists Pullman and Del Re, QUITEL or CHITEL is the annual conference of theoretical and computational chemists whose language of expression is one that is primarily derived from Latin, such as Catalan, Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, etc. 

The conference will feature some of the finest researchers from around the world in a unique Latin atmosphere in the vibrant culture of Montral, Qubec, Canada. CHITEL/QUITEL 2019 will feature over 120 invited speakers and over 10 plenary lecturers including:

Paul Ayers (McMaster University, Canada)
Andr Bandrauk (Universit de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Victor Batista (Yale University, USA)
Carlo Gatti (Instituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari CNR-ISTM, Italy)
Jean-Michel Gillet (CentraleSuplec, France)
Ana Martinez (Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, Mexico)
Louis Massa (City University of New York, USA)
Jolle Pelletier (Universit de Montral, Canada)
Alejandro Toro-Labb (Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile, Chile)
Piero Ugliengo (Universit degli Studi di Torino, Italy)

Abstract submission is now open (and early bird registration is until 15 June). Students and postdocs have special discounted registration. 

Please visit the conference website:
https://www.concordia.ca/chitel2019 

Best regards, cordialement, mejores deseos, melhores desejos, cordiali saluti

QUITEL/CHITEL 2019 Organizers:
Chrif Matta, Mount Saint Vincent University
Gilles Peslherbe, Concordia University
Pierre-Nicholas Roy, University of Waterloo


From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Tue Jun 11 17:00:01 2019
From: "Alexandre Hocquet alexandre.hocquet .. univ-lorraine.fr" <owner-chemistry-x-server.ccl.net>
To: CCL
Subject: CCL: history computational chemistry and minisupercomputers
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X-Original-From: "Alexandre  Hocquet" <alexandre.hocquet.-x-.univ-lorraine.fr>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:58:46 -0400


Sent to CCL by: "Alexandre  Hocquet" [alexandre.hocquet++univ-lorraine.fr]

Dear CCLers,

As historians (see an example of our papers at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8268025 for more details), we're interested in writing about computational chemistry modelization and computational chemistry software.

The issue of portability to minisupercomputers in the eighties is attracting our interest and we are looking for witnesses that could share their memories and views about relationships between comp chem software developers and hardware manufacturers, (such as Alliant, Ardent, Multiflow... among others).

We're even more interested if they're living on the east coast as we are currently working until the end of July on archival material at the Science History Institute in Phladelphia, before going back home to France.

Alexandre Hocquet and Frederic Wieber