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13TH ANNUAL MERCURY CONFERENCE ON UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY

July 24-26, 2014

BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY
Lewisburg, PA

 
The 13th annual MERCURY Conference for undergraduate computational chemistry was held July 24-26, 2014 at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.

This year’s speakers were:

 

Edward Valeev

Virginia Tech

Predictive Theory of Electronic Structure: Are We There Yet?

 

Christine Aikens

Kansas State University

TD-DFT Studies of Nanoparticle Optical Properties

 

Geoffrey Hutchison

University of Pittsburgh

Computational Design of Organic Solar Cells: Genetic Algorithm-Driven Inverse Design

 

Anthony Nicholls

OpenEye Scientific Software

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics in Molecular Modeling

 

Georgia McGaughey

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Targeted versus Phenotypic Approaches in Drug Discovery

 

Rich Friesner

Columbia University; Schrodinger Inc.

Computational Methods for the Prediction of Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity and Applications to Structure Based Drug Discovery

Next year’s dates are temporarily set for July 23 – 25, 2015 here at Bucknell. We hope to see you then