History of the Gordon Research Conferences on computational chemistry

Reviews in Computational Chemistry

Volumn 14, Issue , 2000, Pages 399-439

  Boyd, Donald B ^a   Lipkowitz, Kenny B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. One reason the talks at GRCs are substantial is that the speakers know they will be extensively questioned during the discussion period following each talk. In contrast, the talks at large national society meetings too often are "hollow," i.e., they consist of an introduction and some results and conclusions, but disclose little about how the work was done. Such talks circumvent the old rule of publication: there should be sufficient disclosure that other scientists could reproduce and confirm the work. In any case, the audiences at GRCs have a better chance of hearing the full story on a piece of work.
2. The meeting rooms at the conference sites are not like the vast, noisy, flat-floored hotel ballrooms typically used at large national and international meetings.
3. D. B. Boyd, Chair's Notebook and Guidelines, October 1995. (This massive assemblage of documentation was collected as an aid to T. A. Halgren and future chairmen of the Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry. The documentation included prior conference programs, registration lists, evaluation forms, correspondence, and GRC guidelines for chairpersons. The notebook was intended to be passed from chair to chair upon completion of service.) Since January 1998, information about the conferences has been available on the World Wide Web at http://chem.iupui.edu/rcc/grccc.html.
4. J. D. Bolcer and R. B. Hermann, in Reviews in Computational Chemistry, K. B. Lipkowitz and D. B. Boyd, Eds., VCH Publishers, New York, 1994, Vol. 5, pp. 1-63. The Development of Computational Chemistry in the United States.
5. D. B. Boyd, Abstracts of the 183rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 28-April 2, 1982. Computational Chemistry in the Design of Biologically Active Molecules at Lilly.
6. K. B. Lipkowitz and D. B. Boyd, Eds., Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Wiley-VCH, New York, 1998, Vol. 12, pp. v-xiii. Preface.
7. These other meetings did not aim at the same broad scope and purpose as envisioned for our GRC on Computational Chemistry.
8. K. B. Lipkowitz and D. B. Boyd, Eds., Reviews in Computational Chemistry, VCH Publishers, New York, 1990, Vol. 1, pp. vii-xii. Preface.
9. The GRC office, based on its many years of running hundreds of conferences, has found that a small number of long talks with ample discussion is much preferred by participants to having a larger number of short talks. Dedicated poster sessions are also preferred.
10. Like much of the rest of the American workforce, computational chemists are increasingly experiencing multiple job changes during in their professional careers.
11. The program listed here is a facsimile of the original one prepared for the conference. The program does not have last minute additions, withdrawals, or substitutions. For the poster presentations, affiliations and first names are listed for the presenter(s); such information for coauthors are listed if it was supplied with the original poster abstract.