Hi Ved,
I appreciate that the logistics of travel can make it difficult for people
to attend these workshops. Unfortunately a key component of these
workshops is the hands on part of it and the direct interaction with the
instructors. This is, I believe, what makes these workshops valuable to
the attendees. They are able to come with ideas for research projects and
ask direct questions. It also provides the attendees with important
networking opportunities amongst themselves. All of this would be
difficult to do in a virtual setting. The lectures are also encouraged to
be interactive and are updated regularly. Recording them and putting them
online in isolation would not be of a huge use I believe. It would also be
difficult to update them and control the versions if there were on some
uncontrolled site such as youtube. I have attempted to make the majority
of the hands on tutorials we use available on the Amber website
(
http://ambermd.org/tutorials/) and I'd encourage you to begin by working
through those. Even keeping these fully up to date can be difficult given
extremely limited human resources but we do our best.
What I would ultimately like to do is put together a proper text book that
essentially forms the basis of one of these workshops and I think this
would be much more useful than watching lectures in isolation. Alas time
constraints have meant that this project has not yet come to fruition but
I am still hopeful.
I am in discussions with various people right now about running a workshop
in the Asian sub continent which may be easier for you to attend. I note
that we have not yet run such a workshop in India so this is definitely on
the list of places. I'll post details once I have them.
All the best
Ross
On 4/18/14, 9:34 PM, "Ved Prakash" <ved.bakli.gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear Ross,
>
>This seems very interesting but it may not be possible for most of us to
>attend the conference due to geographic, academic, financial or some other
>limit (limited number of seats). Will it be possible to record all of it,
>or at least the major ones and put on web for free viewing and downloading
>(like on youtube)?
>
>
>--
>Best wishes
>--
>Ved Prakash
>Research Scholar
>Dr. Yamuna Krishnan's Lab
>National Centre for Biological Sciences
>Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
>GKVK, Bellary Road,
>Bangalore 560065, India
>
>Phone: 09632160081
>
>
>website: http://www.niser.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Ved_Prakash
>
>
>On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We are glad to announce the Amber Workshop 2014 that will be held in
>> Barcelona from the 2nd to 6th June at the Vertex Building (UPC
>> Campus). The course will be taught by Ross C. Walker and Adrian E.
>> Roitberg and will be hosted by the IRB Barcelona and the Barcelona
>> supercomputing Center.
>>
>> More info: http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/www/amber2014
>>
>> Please feel free to forward this announcement to all your contacts.
>>
>> With the best regards,
>>
>> The Organizing Team
>>
>>
>> * Program
>> The duration of the meeting is 5 days, from 2nd of June to 6th.
>> Typically there will be lectures 3 hours per day, and hands-on
>> tutorials, about 5 hours per day. The content of the Workshop will
>> include:
>>
>> * Molecular Dynamics with Amber
>> * Using VMD to visualize AMBER
>> * Dealing with non-standard residues
>> * Building protein-ligand complexes
>> * Statistical Mechanics for Free Energy Calculations
>> * MM/PBSA calculations
>> * Calculating relative binding free energies for protein/carbohydrate
>> complexes
>> * Enhanced sampling techniques
>> * Maximizing Performance (Parallel Execution and NVIDIA GPU
>>Acceleration)
>> * Umbrella sampling simulations
>> * Analyzing Simulations
>> * Introduction to QM/MM Calculations
>> * Lipid Simulations with AMBER
>>
>> The target audience is graduate students and postdocs as well as a few
>> faculty interested in learning about Molecular Dynamics techniques.
>> The course is designed to introduce Molecular Dynamics techniques from
>> an introductory perspective but will progress quickly. Some experience
>> with the Linux operating system is essential but experience with AMBER
>> or other molecular dynamics packages is not required.
>>
>> * Registration
>> The number is limited to 40. Given the limited number of seats you
>> will be requested to fill a pre-registration form.
>>
>> Fill the pre-registration form at:
>> http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/www/amber2014
>>
>> Important: Pre-registration deadline is 28 of April.
>>
>> Organizers will review applications and invite those selected to
>> register by May 8th. From 8th of May, if there are seats available,
>> the organizers will accept further applications.
>>
>> Registration fees are 190 euros. Attendees are expected to bring their
>> own laptop. The organization will provide a pendrive with all
>> necessary software and training material. Lunch and coffee breaks are
>> included.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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