FOMMS 2009: Foundations for Innovation

New perspectives in molecular simulation:

• Daan Frenkel (Cambridge)
• Berend Smit (UC Berkeley)

Proteins and biological systems:

• David Baker (U Washington)
• Charlie Brooks (U Michigan)

Linking process scale simulation and molecular modeling:

• Linda Broadbelt (Northestern U)
• Dion Vlachos (U Delaware)

Rare events: acceleration algorithms and transition path sampling:

• Baron Peters (UCSB)
• Giovanni Ciccotti (La Sapienza, Rome)
• Phil Geissler (UC Berkeley)

Soft materials and complex fluids:

• Ilja Siepmann (U Minn)
• Clare McCabe (Vanderbilt)
• Lev Gelb (Wash U)

Simulation-based engineering & science - Novel materials and industrial applications:

• Caroline Mellot (UCL, UK)
• Shinichiro Nakamura (Mitsubishi, Japan)
• Herve' Toulhoat (IFP, France) and roundtable

Petascale computing and emerging architectures for modeling and simulation:

• David Shaw (D.E. Shaw Research & Columbia)
• Klaus Schulten (UIUC)
• George Karniadakis (Brown U.)

* all confirmed