Sessions-Minisymposia

SESSIONS AND SYMPOSIA

Procedures for the approval of a proposal for a session-workshop or symposium:

1. The organiser must send us a proposal for the organisation of a session-workshop or symposium
2. The organiser must give us a small description of his/her proposal (no more than 150 words)
3. The organiser must give us his/her short CV
4. The organiser must inform us about the procedures which will follow for the promotion of this session-workshop or symposium (the organiser is responsible for the promotion)
5. The organiser must give us full affiliations of his/hers with an e-mail in which someone can send a paper on the subject of the session-workshop or symposium.

After approval the organiser will be the responsible person for the selection of the papers. The papers must be send to us until 30/9/2010. In the Proceedings of ICCMSE 2010 (which will be published by AIP Conference Proceedings) the session-workshop or symposium will be in a separate section of the Volume with a Preface written by the organizer. A photo (in JPEG) of the organizer together with a short CV of him must be provided together with the contents of his/her symposium. From time to time the organizer must inform us about the participation of his/her symposium.

If a participant wants to send a paper to a Symposium mentioned below the e-mail addresses of the organizer(s) must be used.

SYMPOSIA WHICH HAVE BEEN APPROVED

Highlighted Symposia

Special Symposia

Symposium 1

Title: Methods in quantum chemistry: A symposium in honor of Jiri Cizek and Josef Paldus

Organizer: Professor Dr. Ajit J. Thakkar, Ph.D., F.C.I.C, Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 6E2, Canada. http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/science/chem/ajit/

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to ajit@unb.ca

URL of the Symposium: https://sites.google.com/site/cpsymp/

Description:

This symposium is being held in honor of Jiri Cizek and Josef Paldus in the year of the latter's 75th birthday. It is therefore focused on mathematical and computational developments in and applications of modern quantum chemistry.

Symposium 2

Title: Use of Computational Methods in Food Technology

Organizers: Dr. Maria Charalambides, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus SW7 2AZ, Tel: +44 207 594 7246, Fax: +44 20 594 7017 and Dr. Serafim Bakalis, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Tel: +44 121 4145383

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to m.charalambides@imperial.ac.uk and s.bakalis@bham.ac.uk

Scope and Topics: The food industry is becoming under pressure to (i) optimise resources while reducing environmental impact and (ii) design products that will improve the health of an aging population. Traditionally food design and process development has been based on empirical design and experimentation. Advances in numerical techniques can provide a unique insight in the underlying physiscs and an opportunity for optimisation.

Within this symposium we aim to present recent developments in the use of numerical methods in studies related to food science. We aim to bring together scientists from a diverse background with an interest in numerical techniques and their application in foods.

Topics include but not limited to:

	Computational Fluid Dynamics,
	Modelling of Food Processes,
	Structure-Function Relationships,
	Food Rheology and Material Modelling,
	Texture Analysis and Human Perception,
	Fracture Mechanics in Foods,
	Foams and Effect of Bubbles in Foods,
	Polymer Physics.

Symposium 3

Title: Computing in Experimental High Energy Physics

Organizers: Prof. Tulika Bose, Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to: tulika@bu.edu

Scope and Topics:

State-of the-art computing is critical for the success of high energy physics experiments. This symposium will provide an international forum for discussing the computing challenges faced by the current high energy physics experiments along with a review of ongoing work and future computing strategies.

Topics to include:

	Computing challenges at the LHC
	Data-acquisition and Online computing
	Software Methods and Tools
	Databases
	Distributed Processing and Analysis
	Analysis Tools

Symposium 4

Title: 8th Symposium on Mathematical Chemistry

Organizers: Dr. Sonja Nikolic, The Rugjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to sonja@irb.hr

Scope and Topics: Graph theory development, studying complexity of molecules and reactions, development of molecular descriptors, development of mathematical invariants of chemical and biological systems, modeling structure-property-activity, advanced chemometrics and cheminformatics algorithms as the tools required by chemical engineers and analytical chemists to explore their data and build predictive models.