This year’s speakers were:

Edward Valeev

Virginia Tech

Predictive Theory of Electronic Structure: Are We There Yet?

Christine Aikens

Kansas State University

TD-DFT Studies of Nanoparticle Optical Properties

Geoffrey Hutchison

University of Pittsburgh

Computational Design of Organic Solar Cells: Genetic Algorithm-Driven Inverse Design

Anthony Nicholls

OpenEye Scientific Software

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics in Molecular Modeling

Georgia McGaughey

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Targeted versus Phenotypic Approaches in Drug Discovery

Rich Friesner

Columbia University; Schrodinger Inc.

Computational Methods for the Prediction of Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity and Applications to Structure Based Drug Discovery