CCP5 Annual Meeting 2009

Structure Prediction

 

Monday 7th

11:00-13:10

1st session

Chairman: D Wales

11:00-11:05

Welcome

11:05-11:45

Sally Price

Crystal energy landscapes for organic systems

11:45-12:10

Aldi Asmadi

Crystal structure prediction using tailor-made force fields and a hybrid DFT method: Three small and rigid molecules

12:10-12:35

Hisashi Okumura

Temperature and pressure dependences of peptide conformation studied by multibaric-multithermal molecular dynamics simulations

12:35-13:10

Leonidas Kapsokalivas

Population based local search for protein folding simulations

 

Lunch (Balcony Rooms)

14:10-15:40

2nd session

Chairman: JJ Bel Bruno 

14:10-14:50

Michael O’Keeffe

The role of geometry in structure prediction and synthesis

14:50-15:15

Laurent A. Baumes

Zeolite structure prediction using a parallel implementation of genetic algorithms on General-Purpose Graphic Processing Units (GPGPU) card      

15:15-15:40

Michael W. Deem

Computational discovery of new zeolite-like materials

 

Coffee (Balcony Rooms)

16:10-16:50

3rd session

Chairman: C Schön 

16:10-16:50

David Wales

Energy landscapes of clusters, glasses, and biomolecules

16:50-17:15

Andreas A. Albrecht

Local search methods for protein folding simulation in lattice models

17:15-17:40

Miriam Marqués

Potassium under pressure: a pseudobinary ionic compound

17:40-19:30

Poster Session (Balcony Rooms)

 

Dinner (Restaurant on ground floor)

 

Tuesday 8th

09:10-11:00

4th session

Chairman: C Mellot-D

09:10-09:50

John Kendrick

Solid state density function theory applied to crystal structure prediction of organic molecules

09:50-10:15

Graeme M. Day

Developments in methods for crystal structure prediction of flexible organic molecules

10:15-10:40

Panagiotis G. Karamertzanis

Crystal structure prediction for flexible, multi-component systems

10:40-11:00

Aron Walsh

Global and local minimum structures for clusters of (In2O3)n

 

Coffee (Balcony Rooms)

11:30-12:50

5th session

Chairman: M M O’Keeffe 

11:30-12:10

Caroline Mellot-Draznieks

Structure prediction in hybrid organic-inorganic frameworks

12:10-12:35

Geoffroy Hautier

Finding nature's missing ternary oxides? Combining machine learning with ab initio computations to accelerate new compounds discovery.

12:35-12:50

Martijn A. Zwijnenburg

Rationalising polymorphism of inorganic compounds

 

Lunch (Restaurant on ground floor)

14:10-15:40

6th session

Chairman: J Kendrick

14:10-14:50

Christian Schön

Energy landscape exploration methods for the structure prediction of inorganic solids

14:50-15:15

Christian L. Müller

Searching potential energy surfaces with the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy

15:15-15:40

Hakim Meskine

Reconstructions of the polar ZnO (0001) surface

 

Coffee (Balcony Rooms)

16:10-17:40

7th session

Chairman: PM Rodger

16:10-16:50

Joseph J. Bel Bruno

Semiconductor cluster formation in isolation and on surfaces

16:50-17:15

James A. Elliott

Structure prediction of transition metal catalyst particles for catalytic synthesis of carbon nanotubes

17:15-17:40

Stefan T. Bromley

Unexpected persistence of magic cluster stability in ultrathin semiconductor nanorods

17:45

CCP5 AGM

19:00

Conference Meal (Restaurant on ground floor)

 

Wednesday 9th

09:10-11:05

8th session

Chairman: JA Purton 

09:10-09:50

Neil L Allan

Exploring energy landscapes of oxides, phosphides and nitrides

09:50-10:15

Ben Slater

Energy landscapes of ice, silica and clathrate hydrates

10:15-10:40

Andrew J. Morris

Investigating defects in semiconductors using ab initio random structure searching

10:40-11:05

Martin Sweatman

Self-referential Monte-Carlo simulation technique for calculating the free energy of flexible framework materials in contact with fluids

 

Coffee (Balcony Rooms)

11:30-13:30

9th session

Chairman: W Smith 

11:30-12:10

Scott Woodley

Applications of the ACS Revolutionary Algorithm

12:10-12:35

Stefano Leoni

Structure predictions from phase transitions

12:35-13:00

Maria Baias

Structure prediction for NaNbO3 perovskites

13:00-13:25

Gareth I. G. Griffiths

Post-Cotunnite Phase of TeO2

13:25-13:30

Closing remarks

 

Lunch (Restaurant on ground floor)

 

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