May 28 - May 30, 2008

Attendees:

Vincent DeTuri	Ithaca College
Sean Eady	Ithaca College (student)
Akiko Fillinger	Ithaca College
Michael Haaf	Ithaca College
Gary Hoffman	Elizabethtown College
Janet Hunting	Ithaca College
Anna Larson	Ithaca College
Cole Lechleiter	Ithaca College (student)
Melissa Martin	Ithaca College (student)
Justin Mitsch	Elizabethtown College (student)
Lisa Morkowchuk	Moravian College (student)
Semeret Munie	Ithaca College (student)
Kevin Range	Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
Carl Salter	Moravian College
Kelly Sowers	Ithaca College (student)
Scott Ulrich	Ithaca College
Jeff Wolbach	Albright College
Natalie Zedalis	Moravian College (student)

Software discussed:

Chimera
WebMO and JMOL
ChemPad and OrganicPad
Crystal Maker
Gaussian

Sessions:

Use of Chimera to study protein structures
Generating JMOL voxel files with WebMO
WebMO workshop
Better way to visualize atomic orbitals and formation of molecular orbitals in the classroom
ChemPad and OrganicPad to draw organic compounds
A pi*-solubility experiment for physical chemistry
Computational study of the ene mechanism in nicotinamide hydride-equivalent transfer
Math anxiety and math tools in physical chemistry
Use of CrystalMaker for visualizing crystals
Solvation experiments/calculations involving potassium nitrate and potassium acetate
Computations on sodium chloride and silver chloride
Calculations on doped titanium dioxide