*Please forward this information to any relevant research labs or email
lists.*
Applications are open for 3 types of awards from the ACS Division
of Computers in Chemistry, to be awarded at the Spring 2014 national
meeting in Dallas. The deadline is *5pm EDT Tuesday Oct 22, 2013. *
1) CCG Research Excellence award (graduate students)
2) OPENEYE Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (tenure-track Assistant
Professors)
3) Peter Kollman Graduate Award in High Performance Computing
*CCG Research Excellence student travel award stipends are available for
the Spring 2014 Dallas 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. Previous winners are not
eligible.
To apply for an award for the ACS National Meeting in Dallas, March
16-20, 2014, 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
file to carlos.simmerling . stonybrook.edu <
http://gmail.com/>. Use the
subject ACS CCG AWARD APPLICATION. The file name is important - you must
use your family name as the *beginning* of the file name (ie
myname.CCGapplication.pdf, where “myname” is your family name). Letters
of support can be sent separately from the other materials but must still
arrive by the deadline and have the applicant's last name at the start of
the file name. *Applications that do not follow these rules cannot be
considered.*
The application deadline is 5pm EDT on *Tuesday, Oct 22*. Applicants
will receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not
receive confirmation by midnight Nov 13, please contact the organizer
immediately by email (see below). In addition, *you must also submit your
normal poster abstract on the ACS PACS system* under the "Chemical
Computing Group Excellence Award" symposium, prior to the PACS deadline.
Note that you MUST APPLY TWICE: email your complete application, and submit
a standard abstract to PACS. Both must be submitted before their respective
deadlines. Do not submit your PACS abstract to the standard poster session-
use only the CCG session.
More information on awards offered by the ACS COMP division can be found
on the web site at
http://web2011.acscomp.org/awards.
*OPENEYE Junior Faculty Award*
The ACS COMP OPENEYE 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 Dallas, March
16-20, 2014, a title and extended abstract of the work (no more than 2
pages), a complete CV (including your ACS member number and confirmation
that you are a member of the ACS COMP division) and the letter of
departmental support should be sent as a SINGLE pdf or text file to
carlos.simmerling . stonybrook.edu. Use the subject ACS OPENEYE AWARD
APPLICATION. The file name is important - you must use your family name as
the *beginning* of the file name (ie myname.OpenEyeapplication.pdf, where
“myname” is your family name). Letters of support can be sent separately
from the other materials but must still arrive by the deadline and have the
applicant's last name at the start of the file name. *Applications that do
not follow these rules cannot be considered.*
The application deadline is 5pm EDT on *Tuesday, Oct 22*. Applicants
will receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not
receive confirmation by midnight Nov. 13, please contact the organizer
immediately by email. In addition, *you must also submit your normal poster
abstract on the ACS PACS system* under the "Outstanding Junior Faculty
Award" symposium, prior to the PACS deadline. Note that you MUST APPLY
TWICE: email your complete application, and submit a standard 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 OPENEYE 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). Use a somewhat different title
for the talk and poster.
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
*High Perfomance Computing *
Peter Kollman Graduate Award in High Performance Computing to be awarded at
the Spring 2014 Dallas 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. Award winners are 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 1-2 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 .
stonybrook.edu<
http://gmail.com/> as
a SINGLE pdf or text file. Use the subject ACS Kollman AWARD APPLICATION.
The file name is important - you must use your family name as the *beginning
* of the file name (ie myname.Kollmanapplication.pdf, where “myname” is
your family name). Letters of support can be sent separately from the
other materials but must still arrive by the deadline and have the
applicant's last name at the start of the file name. *Applications that do
not follow these rules cannot be considered. *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 *Tuesday, Oct 22*. Applicants
will receive email confirmation of receipt of materials. If you do not
receive confirmation by midnight Nov. 13, please contact the organizer
immediately by email. 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
carlos.simmerling . stonybrook.edu
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