ECACOMSIG: Re: Sept 15 Deadline for proposals.

[Lachlan Cranswick <l.m.d.cranswick@dl.ac.uk>]

Forwarded on behalf of Davide Viterbo (due to listserv wierdness)

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>Dear Ton,
>I fully agree with your proposed session for the "small molecule"
>world. The question of automation is indeed hot and of  general interest.
>
>I also strongly encourage the setting up of sessions in collaboration
>with other SIGs. Can anything be arranged also with the powder or
>the charge density people; they certainly have a lot of computing.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Davide
>
>At 07.13 11/09/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>>Dear Computing SIG members,
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>>         The deadline for the submission of proposals for sessions at
>>the DURBAN-2003 meeting is approaching rapidly (Sept 15).
>>
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>>         Up to now, we received only suggestions for a macromolecular
>>computing session (Thanks!).
>>
>>No proposal for a small molecule computing session reached this list yet.
>>
>>For that reason I offer the following suggestion:
>>
>>"Automatic Structure Determination Software: What has been achieved so far?
>>  What are the problems to be solved?"
>>
>>This is certainly a hot issue diffractometer suppliers are working on.
>>However, it will be healthy to know about the public domain options as
>>well. Anyway, automation can be a rich source of interesting problems
>>to be addressed and solved.
>>
>>Best wishes
>>
>>Ton Spek
>>
>>Chairman of the ECA-Computing Commission
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>Davide Viterbo, Prof.
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