The 19th Darmstadt Molecular Modelling Workshop

Computer Chemistry Center, 91052 Erlangen, Germany

Tuesday 3rd May and Wednesday 4th May 2005

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Please see the German version of this page for the award winners, some after-workshop goodies and remarks!

Every year, the Darmstadt Molecular Modelling Workshop provides research students and post doctoral scientists the perfect opportunity to present their latest research findings. Young scientists at the beginning of their academic careers will be able to meet new colleagues in academia and gain feedback from industrial colleagues.

The organizers welcome either poster or lecture contributions in English or German from all areas of molecular modelling (from life sciences, physical sciences and material sciences).

The aim of the 19th Darmstadt Workshops is to have a broad perspective of current research in progress and is to be a perfect venue to introduce new methodologies that can contribute to molecular modelling and its related disciplines. This workshop is not only useful to participants who want to develop their presentation skills, but also useful to those who want to network and get an impression of their own research and its possibilities in the context of others.

Only on-line registration is possible.

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Award for the most outstanding net-based scientific Molecular Modelling Application

The MGMS DS (Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society - German Section) believes that internet-based applications will play an increasing role for scientists in a diversity of research areas. These include accessible tools for investigating molecular structure, for calculating physicochemical properties and for exploring dynamic or even macromolecular characteristics. This year, the MGMS DS is committed to promoting the development of such research applications by awarding a prize for an outstanding contribution to molecular modelling.

Experimental scientists, whose expertise or activities may not be in the field of molecular modelling, often use internet-based applications to retrieve existing structural or property data that contribute to their own research findings. For example, the availability of databases combining protein sequences and structures spawned the development of internet-based collections of protein data that focused in on the interactions, dynamics and behaviours of different proteins and enzymes. Classical modelling applications for the generation and visualization of dynamic three-dimensional models can be achieved using internet-based applications. Research tools that were once state-of-the-art are now commonplace and accessible to the wider community.

At the general meeting of the MGMS DS, it was decided to offer an award of € 500 for an outstanding scientific application in the field of Molecular Modelling. It is planned that this prize will be presented for the second time at the 19th Darmstadt Modelling Workshop (3rd to the 4th May 2005). Competition applications should be made electronically, using the on-line application form available at the MGMS DS website (http://www.mgms-ds.de) by the deadline 31st March 2005.

The criteria that will be used for assessment are:

• Scientific excellence
• Relevance of the application
• Use of technical application
• Clarity and quality of functional design
• Quality of the user interface and its documentation
• Innovation and originality

The submission will be evaluated by the following jury:

Dr Thomas Engel (Koeln)
Dr Harald Lanig (Erlangen)
Dr Andreas Teckentrup (Biberach)

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Additional Darmstadt Molecular Modelling Workshop Awards and Prizes

There will be Two Poster Awards each worth € 100 and also, for the first time this year, there will be Three Lecture Awards for the best lectures. These will include:

1st Prize - Travel to the Young Modellers Forum in the United Kingdom (value worth up to a maximum € 500)
2nd Prize - € 200 Travel expenses subsidy
3rd Prize - € 100 Travel expenses subsidy

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We thank our present and current sponsors for supporting our workshop.

The pages of the 2004 workshop are available here!