CCL: October 20 deadline for ACS COMP division awards for junior faculty an

 Sent to CCL by: "Carlos  Simmerling" [carlos.simmerling=-=gmail.com]
 Applications are open for 3 types of awards from the ACS Division of
 Computers in Chemistry, to be awarded at the Spring 2012 national meeting in
 San Diego. The deadline is 5pm EDT Thursday, October 20, 2012.
 1) CCG Research Excellence award (graduate students)
 2) HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (tenure-track Assistant Professors)
 3) Peter Kollman Graduate Award in High Performance Computing
 CCG Graduate student award
 CCG Research Excellence student travel award stipends are available for the
 Spring 2012 San Diego ACS National Meeting. The CCG Excellence Awards have
 been created to stimulate graduate student participation in ACS COMP Division
 activities (symposia and poster sessions) at ACS National Meetings. Those
 eligible for a CCG Excellence Award are graduate students in good standing
 who present work within the COMP program, either in oral or poster format.
 Winners receive $1,150 to offset their travel expenses, as well as a copy of
 CCG's MOE (Molecular Operating Environment) software with a one-year license.
 They are also honored during a ceremony at the COMP Division Poster Session.
 Up to 5 awardees will be chosen on the basis of the quality and significance
 of the research to be presented, as well as the strength of the supporting
 letter and other materials. All graduate students of the Americas (North,
 South or Central) are encouraged to submit applications. Awards will be given
 only to those individuals making presentations, not co-authors. There is a
 limit of one CCG award application per research lab (PI). Previous winners
 are not eligible.
 To apply for an award for the ACS National Meeting in San Diego, CA March 25-
 29, 2012, a title and extended abstract of the work (no more than 2 pages), a
 two page CV, a personal statement (no more than 1 page) and a letter of
 support from the research advisor should be sent as a SINGLE pdf or text file
 to carlos.simmerling%gmail.com. Use the subject ACS CCG AWARD APPLICATION.
 You must include your last name at the beginning of the file name. Letters of
 support can be sent separately from the other materials but must still arrive
 by the deadline.
 The application deadline is 5pm EDT on Thursday, October 20. Applicants will
 receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not receive
 confirmation by 1pm on October 21, please contact the organizer immediately
 by telephone (see below). In addition, you must submit your normal poster
 abstract to the "Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award" symposium
 on the
 ACS PACS system prior to the PACS deadline. Note that you MUST APPLY TWICE:
 email your application, and submit an abstract to PACS. Both must be
 submitted before their respective deadlines. Do not submit your PACS abstract
 to the standard poster session- it must be submitted for the CCG session or
 your application will not be considered.
 More information on awards offered by the ACS COMP division can be found on
 the web site at http://www.acscomp.org/Awards/index.html
 Carlos Simmerling
 Chair, ACS COMP Division Awards Committee
 Professor, Department of Chemistry
 Stony Brook University
 Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
 631-632-1336
 carlos.simmerling%gmail.com
 HP Junior Faculty Award
 The ACS COMP HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award program provides $1,000 to
 up to four outstanding tenure-track junior faculty members to present their
 work in COMP symposia at ACS National Meetings. The Awards are designed to
 assist new faculty members in gaining visibility within the COMP community.
 Award certificates and $1,000 prizes will be presented at the COMP Poster
 session. While special consideration will be given to Assistant Professors
 presenting work in the area of algorithm and methods development,
 applications for Outstanding Junior Faculty Awards are invited from all
 current tenure-track junior/untenured faculty (or equivalent positions in
 other institution types) who are members of ACS and the ACS Division of
 Computers in Chemistry. Postdoctoral researchers in transition to faculty
 appointments may also be considered. Selection criteria will include the
 novelty and importance of the work to be presented, CV of the applicant, as
 well as the level of Departmental support as indicated by the applicant's
 department Chair or Chair designee.
 To apply for an award for the ACS National Meeting in San Diego, CA March 25-
 29, 2012, a title and extended abstract of the work (no more than 2 pages), a
 complete CV (including ACS member number) and the letter of departmental
 support should be sent as a SINGLE pdf or text file to
 carlos.simmerling%gmail.com. Use the subject ACS HP AWARD APPLICATION. The
 departmental support letter can be sent separately if desired but must arrive
 by the deadline. You must include your last name at the start of the file
 name.
 The application deadline is 5pm EDT on Thursday, October 20. Applicants will
 receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not receive
 confirmation by 1pm on October 21, please contact the organizer immediately
 by telephone (see below). In addition, you must submit your normal poster
 abstract to the "Outstanding Junior Faculty Award" symposium on the
 ACS PACS
 system prior to the PACS deadline. Note that you MUST APPLY TWICE: email your
 application, and submit an abstract to PACS. Both must be submitted before
 their respective deadlines. Do not submit your PACS abstract to the standard
 poster session- it must be submitted for the HP session or your application
 will not be considered.
 Note that the award application is for the poster session. If you want to
 also give an oral presentation, you must submit a separate abstract to PACS
 for an oral presentation in a relevant session, in addition to the poster
 abstract in the award section (note that acceptance into the oral sessions is
 not guaranteed).
 More information on awards offered by the ACS COMP division can be found on
 the web site at http://www.acscomp.org/Awards/index.html
 Carlos Simmerling
 Chair, ACS COMP Division Awards Committee
 Professor, Department of Chemistry
 Stony Brook University
 Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
 631-632-1336
 carlos.simmerling%gmail.com
 High Perfomance Computing
  Peter Kollman Graduate Award in High Performance Computing to be awarded
 at the Spring 2012 San Diego ACS National Meeting.
 The ACS Peter Kollman Graduate Award in High Performance Computing has been
 created to provide supercomputer resources to outstanding students in the
 early stages of their graduate career, particularly for projects that need
 high performance computing resources for their chemistry-related project.
 Those eligible for the award are graduate students in good standing who are
 carrying out research in the broadly defined area of computational chemistry.
 Winners (or their adviser, if necessary) will be the Principal Investigator
 of a new account on the kraken Cray XT5 supercomputer at the National
 Institute of Computational Sciences (NICS), with an allocation of computing
 time to support the project. For information about kraken, see
 http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/computing-resources/kraken.
 Allocations will be
 determined based on the requested amount and consideration of resource
 availability.
 Up to 2 awardees will be chosen on the basis of: the significance of the
 project plan, the potential impact on the project of obtaining additional
 supercomputer resources, the qualifications of the student, and the strength
 of the supporting letter and other materials. Projects with modest
 computational needs that can be performed on individual machines or small
 clusters are not likely to be competitive. Application requirements include a
 title and  extended abstract of the work (no more than 1 page), a two page
 CV, a brief letter of support from the research advisor, and a 1 page
 detailed computational plan indicating: computational resources already
 available for the project, the types of calculations to be performed,
 experience of the applicant with high performance computing, availability of
 software, justification of number and length of runs, parallel scaling data,
 and an estimate of the total time needed. Submit the application to
 carlos.simmerling%gmail.com as a SINGLE pdf or text file, and include your
 last name at the start of the file name. Use the subject ACS Kollman AWARD
 APPLICATION. There is a limit of one Kollman Award application per research
 lab (PI). Previous winners are not eligible.
 The application deadline is 5pm EDT on Thursday, October 20. Applicants will
 receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not receive
 confirmation by 1pm on October 21, please contact the organizer immediately
 by telephone (see below).
 Winners are encouraged but not required to present their work within the COMP
 program at the meeting, either in oral or poster format. If you want to
 present your work in an oral or poster presentation, you must also submit
 your abstract using the ACS PACS system, prior to the PACS deadline.
 Application for the supercomputing award does not constitute an application
 for a presentation.
 More information on awards offered by the ACS COMP division can be found on
 the web site at http://www.acscomp.org/Awards/index.html
 Carlos Simmerling
 Chair, ACS COMP Division Awards Committee
 Professor, Department of Chemistry
 Stony Brook University
 Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
 631-632-1336
 carlos.simmerling%gmail.com