CCP5 Annual Meeting 2009
Structure Prediction
Location: London (Bankside
Conference Centre)
Monday 7th to Wednesday 9th, September 2009
The theme for the annual CCP5 meeting this year is Structure Prediction
from First Principles. Twenty years ago John Maddox published a celebrated "News and Views" article
in Nature [1] in which he provocatively wrote: "One of the continuing scandals in the physical sciences
is that it remains impossible to predict the structure of even the simplest crystalline solids from a
knowledge of their composition." As in the recent review article [2],we may debate the accuracy of this
statement when it was made, and indeed several studies reported prior to Maddox's article had demonstrated
the viability of modelling if not predicting structures. However, it unquestionably highlights the
challenge offered by crystal structure prediction. Indeed, there is a growing need for reliable and robust
methods for predicting the atomic level structures and properties of solids. But, how genuinely predictive
are our current techniques? Or in other words, how well has the field responded, over the last twenty years,
to Maddox's challenge? This conference attempts to answer this question by surveying current approaches and
recent applications and by identifying the challenges and problems that remain.
We invite abstracts for both oral and poster presentations related to
developments in either methodolgy or the applications of structure prediction techniques in the following
areas: organic, inorganic or metallic clusters; crystal structure prediction including dense and
microporous frameworks, molecular packing, orderring, amorphous materials and hybrid inorganic-organic
materials (MOFs and ZIFs, as well as COFs); DNA or protein folding; and Evolutionary Algorithms,
Monte Carlo Basin Hopping, Simulated Annealing, Particle Swarm, Molecular Dynamics, Tiling Theory and Data
Mining applied to finding stable or metastable structures.
Abstract Deadlines: Oral 30th June, Poster 21st August 2009
Please send abstracts, font Times Roman, size 11pt, one side of A4, in MS Word (*.doc) format to
Scott.Woodley "at" ucl.ac.uk and please clearly state whether a talk (in the list of authors use
bold font to highlight the person who will actually give the talk) or poster is preferred.
Early Registration Deadline: 30th June 2009
Registration Deadline : 21st August 2009
Registration
Registration fees (including all refreshments, Monday lunch and
evening meals, Tuesday lunch and conference dinner, Wednesday lunch)
Regular: £225
Student: £180
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Early bird: £200
Early bird: £150
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Accommodation
Please note accommodation must be booked separately.
As with last year we have secured discounted rates at Bankside House.
Single room £30 per night (Including breakfast)
Single room En-suite £53 per night (Including breakfast)
Double room En-suite £57 per night (Including breakfast)
Triple room En-suite £75 per night (Including breakfast)
Quad room En-suite £85 per night (Including breakfast)
PCCP Theme Issue: Solid State Structure Prediction
We do not plan to have the proceedings published, but instead the Royal Society of Chemistry
have kindly agreed to publish a theme issue of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics.
We very much hope delegates to either the conference or the workshop will submit contributions.
More details, when available, will be posted here and on the RSC website
[1] J. Maddox, Nature 335 201 (1988).
[2] S.M.Woodley & R.Catlow, Nature Materials 7 937 (2008).
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