deadline nears for 1000 dollar COMP award



Hi,
 Please excuse the cross posting.
 The American Chemical Society's Computers in Chemistry Division (COMP)
 is organizing a Symposium on Emerging Technologies which will be held
 at the Washington, DC, national meeting, August 20-24, 2000.  An award
 of $1000 will be given to the best oral paper presented at the Symposium.
 The competition is open to everyone who has computational research to
 present.  Computational chemistry, molecular modeling, combinatorial
 library design, molecular design, and simulation are among the topics
 that are encouraged.
 In order to participate, e-mail a 1000-word abstract to me no later than
 April 7, 2000.
 All papers will be evaluated based on the impact the research will have
 on the future of computational chemistry and allied sciences.  The papers
 can be in any area of computational chemistry, molecular modeling, or
 compound/library design (what some people might call cheminformatics).
 The abstract must be in text-only or MS Word.  These long abstracts will
 be reviewed by a panel of experts.  The best contributions will be
 selected for oral presentations at the meeting in Washington.  The
 remaining contributions will be presented at an evening poster session.
 It is essential that participants ALSO submit a short regular ACS
 abstract to the web-based system at http://www.acs.org/meetings/
 by April 12.
 At the Washington ACS meeting, the oral presentations will be judged by
 the panel of experts, and the one winner of the $1000 prize will be
 selected and awarded following the talks.
 Sincerely,
 Donald B. Boyd, Ph.D.
 Editor, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling
         (publication of the ACS COMP division and MGMS)
         http://chem.iupui.edu/~boyd/jmgm.html
 Editor, Reviews in Computational Chemistry
         http://chem.iupui.edu/rcc/rcc.html
 Department of Chemistry
 Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
 402 North Blackford Street
 Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-3274, U.S.A.
 Telephone 317-274-6891, FAX 317-274-4701
 E-mail boyd #*at*# chem.iupui.edu