<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> ..... if
this is facebook statement i will give a thousand like.
please..
I saw in
http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/www/amber2014
in 2010, the workshop was held in Oman (Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat,
Oman, 2010)
I hope it will be held in Indonesia, please..
Setyanto Tri Wahyudi
(Biochemistry Institut Teknologi Bandung-Indonesia)
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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