[LA-SiGMA] Now Accepting Registrations: 2012 NWChem Workshop, June 8-9

[Bety Rodriguez-Milla]

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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

2012 NWChem Workshop, 
June 8-9, 2012
LSU Campus, 338 Johnston Hall

http://www.institute.loni.org/NWChem2012/

The LONI Institute (LI), with LSU's Center for Computation & Technology and High Performance Computing, will host their first NWChem Workshop, June 8-9, 2012 on LSU's campus.

This educational workshop will expose graduate students and postdocs to NChem. NWChem is a computational chemistry package that can be used to perform electronic structure calculations on molecular and periodic systems as well as classical molecular dynamics simulations. It is designed to run on high-performance parallel supercomputers as well as conventional workstation clusters. The workshop will be accessible to graduate students and postdocs in chemistry, materials engineering, and condensed matter physics who may not have prior knowledge of the NChem package. NWChem is actively developed by a consortium of developers and maintained by the EMSL located at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington State. 

Invited speakers are:
 - Eric J. Bylaska, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) 
 - Hubertus J. J. van Dam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) 

The invited speakers will provide pedagogical and expository lectures on the methods that they use, complemented by hands-on sessions in the afternoon. The format will allow plenty of time for discussions. NWCHEM will be available to the participants during the workshop. Participants need to bring their own laptop for the hands-on sessions.

Who: Students and postdocs at Grambling State University, Louisiana State University, Louisiana Tech University, Southern University at Baton Rouge, Tulane University, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, University of New Orleans, and Xavier University of Louisiana, are invited to participate. 

Participants are expected to know basic linux, but they can be brought up to speed by taking the online courses "Intro to HPC", "Remote Access with SSH", and "Survival Skills with the BASH Shell" at https://docs.loni.org/moodle/ .

Registration is required. A limited number of travel awards are available to cover the travel expenses of qualified students or postdocs. 

For more information, please visit:  http://www.institute.loni.org/NWChem2012/