Saturday, June 26, 2010

Theoretical chemistry in the Rockies

Apparently chemists got jealous of the Aspen Center for Physics and so started the Telluride Science Research Center.

I am looking forward to going there in three weeks for a workshop on Condensed Phase Dynamics. It will be great because I will get to meet some theoretical chemists whose papers I have read but not met yet, including Garnet Chan, Phillip Geiser, Dimitrii Makarov, Bill Miller, Peter Rossky, Greg Voth, .....
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