TL;DR: Join us for the MGMS Silver Jubilee Award Ceremony + CCK-13 with Dr David Glowacki, who will give a talk and VR demo on Thursday, November 29th, 2018, at 5 pm in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 24-29 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LB. Free tickets are available.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Please join us for our next "Comp Chem Kitchen", CCK-13, being jointly held with the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society, at 5-6 pm on Thursday, November 29th, 2018, in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles’, Oxford. We are very pleased to announce Dr David Glowacki from the University of Bristol will be talking and giving live demonstrations of his molecular virtual reality system. He will also be presented with his MGMS Silver Jubilee Award. David’s work has been featured in the New York Times: “It’s Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual Reality Goggles.”

If you’re curious and would like to try out molecular VR, please come along!

Future Lightning Talks

Also: please get in touch if you would like to give a 5 minute Lightning Talk at a future CCK on your latest research or give a quick demo of your latest programming project, or even to nominate someone (students, postdocs, professionals, PIs, Emeritus Professors). The talks usually resemble one of the following styles:

• an overview of computational chemistry in your research;
• a (live!) demonstration of some software that you are developing or using; or
• a summary of a computational chemistry paper, method, programming language, or tool that you’ve seen recently.

Refreshments will be provided, including beer.

We would like to thank the University of Oxford MPLS Network and Interdisciplinary Fund for making CCK possible.

About CCK

Comp Chem Kitchen is a regular forum and seminar series to hear about and discuss computational methods for tackling problems in chemistry, biochemistry and drug discovery. It focuses principally on cheminformatics, computational chemistry, and molecular modelling, and overlaps with neighboring areas such as materials properties and bioinformatics.

We’re keen to encourage people involved in coding and methods development (i.e. hackers, in the original untarnished sense of the word) to join us. Our hope is that we will share best practices, even code snippets and software tools, and avoid re-inventing wheels.

In addition to local researchers, we invite speakers from industry and non-profits from time to time, and occasionally organize software demos and tutorials.

If you're interested in giving a talk, here are some possible topics:

• Software development (e.g.: Python, C, C++, CUDA, shell, Matlab);
• Optimizing force field parameters & EVB models;
• Cheminformatics (e.g.: RDKit);
• X-ray and NMR crystallography, including small molecule and macromolecular;
• Protein & RNA modeling, including Molecular Dynamics;
• Virtual screening and Docking;
• Machine Learning;
• Quantum Methods, including DFT.

Bring your laptops, by the way, if you have something you'd like to show!

Want to speak? Ideas for speakers?

* If you have ideas for speakers, or would like to give a talk, let us know. We also invite lightning talks of 5 minutes (or fewer) from attendees, so if you have some cool code you’ve been working on and would like to demo, bring your laptop, smartphone, tablet, (wearable?) and tell us all about it. *

Please pass this message on to friends, colleagues, and students who may be interested too!

The main CCK web site is: http://compchemkitchen.org/
Follow us on Twitter: @CompChemKitchen
See you soon! We’re looking forward to seeing and hearing about the diverse range of computational molecular science that you’re cooking up...

—Garrett, Richard, Phil and Rob

garrett.morris@stats.ox.ac.uk
richard.cooper@chem.ox.ac.uk
philip.biggin@bioch.ox.ac.uk
robert.paton@chem.ox.ac.uk