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Molecular Computation and Visualization |
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MoleCVUE normally "meets" once annually.
We meet together at Elizabethtown College for 3 to 5 days immediately following the spring semester. In recent years, this has been during the week immediately following Memorial Day. At these meetings, we:
individually present new ideas, topics of interest, reports of classroom successes and failures, etc., for reaction, suggestions, and criticisms; this activity is scheduled early in the meeting to allow continuing conversation throughout the meeting;
invite vendors to present their products and to interact with us in extended group and private discussions (over several days if they wish);
participate in workshop instruction in new tools and methods;
Much of our time is spent in the computational laboratory in which we:
work in small groups exploring the limitations of new software packages (which we then report back to the entire group and subsequently summarize on-line for our continued reference);
collaboratively explore new ideas for instructional or research use of new software or use of computational/visualization techniques;
continue previous collaborations toward publication of research or instructional papers.
Additional meetings have been held during January in the past. These meetings have taken the form of one-day, on-line meetings before the beginning of the spring term using the Discussion Board and Virtual Classroom facilities of the Blackboard teaching system. These meetings have been devoted to forums on individual work.