Abstracts are open until this coming Monday May 9th for the  "New Developments in Computational Catalysis" session at the 2016 AIChE annual meeting in San Francisco, CA, which runs from November 13-18, 2016. This session focuses on advances in electronic structure methodology or modeling strategies suitable to address outstanding problems in catalysis. Examples include, but are not limited to, improvements in accuracy and efficiency of electronic structure methodology, application and extension of machine learning to quantum chemistry, and approaches that address challenges in modeling interfacial phenomena or complex reaction networks. Our session will be anchored by an invited talk from Prof. Alex Bell (UC Berkeley).

The abstract deadline is Monday, May 9.

To submit an abstract:

1. Go to https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2016/cfp.cgi

2. Scroll down below “Begin a Submission to the following” and click on the blue "Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division" to expose and click on a button that says "Begin a Submission"

3. Select "20031 New Developments in Computational Catalysis” and then click “Save and Continue"

If you have any question regarding the abstract submission system or you or one of your students would like additional information about the conference and session, please do not hesitate to contact myself ([email protected]) or any of the other co-chairs: Fuat Celik ([email protected]), Bin Liu ([email protected]), or Ye Xu ([email protected]).

For those of you with interested postdocs or students, the “meet the faculty candidate” poster session (in Area 4: Education) is a premier location to interface with search committees regarding academic job openings as well.

Thanks,

Heather Kulik, Fuat Celik, Bin Liu, and Ye Xu