13TH ANNUAL MERCURY CONFERENCE ON UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY

July 24-26, 2014

BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY
Lewisburg, PA

The 13th annual MERCURY Conference for undergraduate computational chemistry was held July 24-26, 2014 at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.

This year’s speakers were:

Virginia Tech

Predictive Theory of Electronic Structure: Are We There Yet?

Kansas State University

TD-DFT Studies of Nanoparticle Optical Properties

University of Pittsburgh

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

OpenEye Scientific Software

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics in Molecular Modeling

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Targeted versus Phenotypic Approaches in Drug Discovery

Columbia University; Schrodinger Inc.

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

Next year’s dates are temporarily set for July 23 – 25, 2015 here at Bucknell. We hope to see you then