Dear Colleague:

We invite you to participate in the First Southern School on Computational Chemistry organized together by the members of the NSF-EPSCOR Computational Chemistry Cluster and NSF-CREST Computational Center for Molecular Structure and Interactions.

The meeting will be held at the Hampton Inn on beautiful Orange Beach, Alabama (next to Pensacola, FL) on March 24.

There will be two formal lectures by Bill Lester from University of California at Berkeley and Piotr Piecuch from Michigan State University.

In addition, we are planning a 30 minute oral presentations of senior investigators and posters from the students.  These presentations will cover all areas of computational and quantum chemistry. We will publish a volume of proceeding with abstracts (see the cover page) and a special issue of "Structural Chemistry" with selected papers from the meeting. Please email your abstracts by February 23, 2001 to Mr. Y. Podolyan podolyan@ccmsi.jsums.edu (up to 4 pages in Microsoft Word format) with indication if you prefer oral or poster presentation and a file with your picture. These pictures will be included in the conference materials along with the list of participants. You can also register online through this web site — just click on registration arrow to the left.

There is no conference fee, but you are asked to cover the cost of your meals ($70 - includes Friday dinner  through Sunday breakfast).

I hope to see you at our School.

Jerzy Leszczynski