MolSSI Workshop: Machine Learning and Chemistry: Challenges on the Way Forward
Organizers: Pratyush Tiwary (U. Maryland), Olexandr Isayev (Carnegie Mellon U.), Adrian Roitberg (U. Florida) Location: College Park, Maryland Dates: 16-18 November 2019 In recent years, the field of machine learning (ML) has seen an incredible surge in interest. From image classifiers to board games, ML and big data and internet are making large impacts in nearly every field. […]
MolSSI Workshop: Molecular Dynamics Software Interoperability
Organizers: Matthieu Chavent (IPBS, Toulouse, France), John Chodera (MSKCC, New York, USA), Karmen Čondić-Jurkić (MSKCC, New York, USA), Erik Lindahl (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden), Jean-Phillip Piquemal (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France) Location: Brooklyn, New York Dates: 3-5 November 2019 There are now multiple well-established packages to perform molecular dynamics (MD) simulations (AMBER, CHARMM, GROMACS, NAMD, OPENMM, TINKER, etc.), each with […]
MolSSI Workshop: Software for Advanced Potential Energy Surfaces
Organizers: Teresa Head-Gordon (U.C. Berkeley) and Susan B. Sinnott (Penn State U.) Location: Berkeley, California Dates: 1-2 August 2019 Advanced potential energy surfaces, defined as classical or reactive chemistry treatments beyond widely available classical fixed charge pairwise-additive force fields, are encountering software-related obstacles that inhibit their application to grand challenge chemistry problems: computational cost of […]
MolSSI Workshop: The Open Molecular Science Cloud in Perugia and Rome, Italy
The MolSSI was pleased to sponsor a select number of graduate students and postdocs from the U.S. to participate in a workshop on cloud computing in the molecular sciences. The workshop had two components: A symposium and hands-on training event September 2-5, 2019, at the Hotel GIO in Perugia, Italy A project writing workshop September 5-6, […]
Summer School and Workshop 2019: Parallel Computing in Molecular Sciences
Summer School The parallel computing in molecular sciences summer school is focused on educating and training a new generation of graduate students and postdocs in molecular sciences in advanced high-performance parallel computing skills on the computing architectures of today and tomorrow, exposing the next generation of science leaders to the state-of-the-art high-performance scientific computing on […]
Enabling Quantum Leap: Workshop on quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry and materials
Dates: 22-24 January 2019Location: Hilton Embassy Suites in Old Town Alexandria, 1900 Diagonal Rd, Alexandria, Virginia As we begin to reach the limits of classical computers in terms of circuit size, quantum computing has emerged as a technology that has captured the imagination of the scientific world and the public as a potentially revolutionary computational advance. The […]
BioExcel/MolSSI Workshop on Workflows in Biomolecular Simulations
As part of the collaborative framework, BioExcel CoE and MolSSI are organizing a series of workshops on the application of workflow solutions for biomolecular modeling and simulations. This first event will be hosted by BioExcel in Barcelona with a planned follow-up in 2019 in the US hosted by MolSSI. Background Workflows are an increasingly important aspect of biomolecular simulation science. Over […]
Best Practices in Software Development Workshop @ SERMACS
MolSSI will hold a workshop on Best Practices in Software Development workshop at the 2018 Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS). The workshop will take place from 9 AM to 4:30 PM at the Augusta Marriott on Wednesday, October 31st. These best practices include version control with git and GitHub, unit and […]
MolSSI Workshop for SSE/SSI PIs
Organizer: Daniel Crawford Location: Kimpton Donovan Hotel, Washington, D.C. Date: April 29 2018 The MolSSI organized an afternoon workshop focused on PIs of current SSE/SSI projects that are relevant to the computational molecular sciences. The purpose of the meeting was to: inform SSE/SSI researchers of the MolSSI’s mandate and goals; to learn more about on-going […]
Summer School and Workshop Parallel Computing in Molecular Sciences
Organizers: Bert de Jong (LBNL), Robert Harrison (Stony Brook University, MolSSI), Edward Valeev (Virginia Tech), Carlos Simmerling (Stony Brook University) Location: Berkeley, CA Dates: 6-9 August 2018 The parallel computing in molecular sciences summer school is focused on educating and training a new generation of graduate students and postdocs in molecular sciences in advanced high-performance […]