ACTC CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
GENERAL INFO
On-site check-in and registration begins Sunday evening, from 5:00 - 8:00 pm July 17, 2011, in the lobby of the Palm Theatre, located at 721 West Colorado Avenue in Telluride. For those unable to check-in on Sunday, Monday morning check-in and registration will resume at 7:00 am at the same location.
All talks will be held at the Palm Theatre beginning Monday morning, July 18, at 9:00 am. The program concludes Friday July 22 at noon.
Check for a more detailed schedule as time nears the meeting date.
Some details are set for now. Breakfast will be served Monday & Friday mornings only from 7:30 – 8:45 am just outside the Palm Theatre on a grassy field in the open air under tents.
Poster sessions will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday at the nearby Telluride Elementary Gym.
On Thursday night, a party will be thrown for all participants and their families after the afternoon session. The party is free for ACTC registrants and speakers, and includes dinner, soft drinks, beer, and wine. Family members are invited for a reasonable fee.
Friday morning is the final session. Breakfast will be available. ACTC ends at noon on July 22, 2011.
DETAILED CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
(Click here for printable schedule)
· All scientific sessions will take place in the Palm Theatre
· Scheduled meals will take place under tents on the adjacent field
SUNDAY, July 17, 2011
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Welcome!
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5:00PM-7:30PM
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REGISTRATION
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MONDAY AM
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7:30-8:45AM BREAKFAST served
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Session 1
DISC LEADER:
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John STRAUB
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9:00AM
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Opening remarks
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9:15
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Angel GARCIA
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Simulations of the folding-unfolding equilibrium of proteins under different solvent conditions
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10:05
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coffee
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10:35
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Ronald LEVY
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Exploring landscapes for protein binding and folding using replica exchange dynamics, kinetic networks, and Markov state models
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11:25
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Richard FRIESNER
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Understanding and Predicting Protein-Ligand Binding Affinities: Theory and Practice
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MONDAY PM
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Session 2
DISC LEADER:
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Dmitrii MAKAROV
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2:00PM
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Steven CORCELLI
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Solvation Dynamics in DNA
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2:50
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Joan-Emma SHEA
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Simulations of Protein Aggregation in the Cellular Milieu
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3:40
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Coffee
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4:10
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Ron ELBER
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Milestoning: Theory and algorithm for long time dynamics from short trajectories
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5:00
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Dave THIRUMALAI
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Stepping Dynamics of Molecular Motors along Polar Tracks
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Dinner on your own
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FREE TIME
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TUESDAY AM
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FREE/DISCUSSION TIME
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Lunch on your own
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TUESDAY PM
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Session 3
DISC LEADER:
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Eran RABANI
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1:00
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Graeme HENKELMAN
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Correlating structure and function for nanoparticle catalysts
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1:50
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Sergei TRETIAK
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Modeling of photoinduced relaxation pathways in conjugated polymers
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2:40
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coffee
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3::10
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Christopher MUNDY
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Ions in solution and at interfaces: What can density functional theory teach us?
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4:00
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David REICHMAN
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The Role of Thermodynamic Correlations in Vitrification
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4:50
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Mark RATNER
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Electron and Exciton Motion in Molecular Bridges, Junctions and Patterns: Quantum, Classical and Actual Behaviors
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5:45-7:15PM
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DINNER served
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Session 4
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POSTER SESSION 1
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7:30-9:30PM
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WEDNESDAY AM
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FREE/DISCUSSION TIME
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Lunch on your own
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WEDNESDAY PM
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Session 5
DISC LEADER:
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Lawrence PRATT
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1:00
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Shekhar GARDE
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Hydration Phenomena at the Interface of Physics and Biology: A New Fluctuations-based Perspective
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1:50
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Frank BROWN
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Dynamics of lipid bilayer membranes
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2:40
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coffee
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3::10
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Gerhard HUMMER
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Theory of single-molecule force spectroscopy
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4:00
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Richard STRATT
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Who's got the time? The most efficient paths through the potential energy landscapes of liquids.
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4:50
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Sharon HAMMES-SCHIFFER
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Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: Electron-Proton Nonadiabaticity and Ultrafast Solvent Dynamics
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5:45-7:15PM
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DINNER served
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Session 6
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POSTER SESSION 2
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7:30-9:30PM
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THURSDAY AM
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FREE/DISCUSSION
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TIME
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Lunch on your own
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Session 7
DISC LEADER:
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Jack SIMONS
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1:00PM
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Garnet CHAN
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Approaches to electronic structure theory in transition metal clusters and solids
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1:50
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Jeffrey NEATON
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Excited States at Interfaces: Implications for Charge Transport and Energy Conversion
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2:40
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coffee
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3::10
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Joseph SUBOTNIK
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The initial and final states of electron and energy transfer processes: Photochemistry for Quantum Chemists
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4:00
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David MANOLOPOULOS
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Chemical reaction rates from ring polymer molecular dynamics
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5:30-10:00PM
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DINNER & PARTY
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FRIDAY AM
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7:30-8:45AM
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BREAKFAST served
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Session 8
DISC LEADER:
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Ken JORDAN
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9:00AM
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Pablo DEBENEDETTI
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Water in Confinement
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9:50
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Valeria MOLINERO
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Crystallization of water: from bulk to the nanoscale
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10:40
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James SKINNER
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Three-body interactions and vibrational spectroscopy in water: Ice Ih, liquid, liquid/vapor interface, and clusters
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11:30AM
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Meeting adjourned
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