Chemical Computing Group (CCG)
Excellence Award

March 2003, New Orleans

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Curt Breneman, COMP Treasurer, thanks CCG for their continued support of COMP!!
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2003 COMP Chair Peter Grootenhuis and CCG's Director of Marketing Pam Newton demonstrate the certificate and software provided to Awardees.
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Bentley Strockbine Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University "Advances in Structure Prediction Techniques" Carlos Simmerling, Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Stony Brook
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Bentley Strockbine
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Ivaylo N. Ivanov Center for Molecular Modeling and Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania "Relative pKs from First Principles Molecular Dynamics: The Case of Histidine Deprotonation" Michael L. Klein, Director and Hepburn Professor of Physical Science, University of Pennsylvania
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Ivaylo N. Ivanov
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Guanglei Cui - Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Stony Brook "The Complicated Folding of a Simple Peptide Studied by Multiple Folding Simulations and Replica Exchange Approach" Carlos Simmerling, Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Stony Brook
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Guanglei Cui
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Christine Aikens Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University "Molecular Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties of Y2Ti(µ-X)2TiY2 (X,Y = H,F,Cl,Br) Isomers" Mark S. Gordon, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
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Christine Aikens
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Nicolae-Viorel Buchete Department of Chemistry, Boston University "The Effect of Relative Side Chain Orientations on the Ability of Statistical Potentials to Identify Native-Like Structures of Proteins" John E. Straub, Boston University
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Nicolae-Viorel Buchete
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Bill Katt Department of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "Optimization of Molecular Properties Through Structural Mutation and Virtual Screening with QSAR Models" Curt M. Breneman, Department of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Bill Katt
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Bethany Kormos Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota "Utilizing Density Functional Theory to Study Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: Optimization of an Adiabatic Connection Method and its Application" Christopher J. Cramer, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
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Bethany Kormos
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Zhigang Zhou Department of Chemistry, Duquesne University "Resistant Effect Exploring of HIV-1 RT Mutation by Molecular Dynamics" Jeffry D. Madura, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University
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Zhigang Zhou
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Min Wu Department of Chemistry, New York University "Structural Studies of an Environmental Carcinogen within a Y Family Bypass DNA Polymerase" Suse Broyde, Department of Biology, New York University
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Min Wu
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Haitao Dong Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Oklahoma "Quasiharmonic Vibrations of Water, Water Clusters, and Liquid Water from Principal Component Analysis of Quantum or QM/MM Trajectories" Ralph A. Wheeler, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Oklahoma Sadly, I inadvertently deleted Mr. Dong's award presentation photo. My sincere apologies to Mr. Dong and Dr. Wheeler.
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner
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At the CCG Awards Dinner

All photos copyright and courtesy of David Spellmeyer.


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