1. FOMMS-2009 July 12-16, 2009 Semiahmoo Resort, Blaine, Washington Sharon Glotzer (U Michigan), Chair Alain Fuchs (ENSPC), Susumu Okazaki (IMS), & Jonathan Moore (Dow), Co-Chairs Sponsored by CAChE, CoMSEF/1a Updated 11/20/08 www.fomms.org

2. Advisors Peter T. Cummings (Vanderbilt/ORNL/CAChE) Phil Westmoreland (UMass/NSF/CAChE) Joe Golab (INEOS/CAChE)

3. Programming committee Claire Adjiman, imperial College Jerry Bernolc, NCSU Anne M. Chaka, NIST Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton Kerwin Dobbs, Dupont Thom Dunning, NCSA Glenn Fredrickson, UCSB Shekhar Garde, RPI Peter A. Gordon, ExxonMobil Carol K. Hall, NCSU Mark A. Horsch, Intel Shiaki Hyodo, Toyota Central R&D David A. Kofke, SUNY-Buffalo Shaoyi Jiang, UW Matthew Neurock, UVa Jeffrey A. Nichols, ORNL John P. O'Connell, Uva Mark A. Ratner, NWU Richard Ross, 3M Philippe Ungerer, IFP, France

4. FOMMS 2009 – “Foundations for Innovation” Some changes… Emphasis on foundations of methods as well as applications Afternoon and evening workshops on special topics – open source code development and interoperability – multicore processors and gpus – Simulation in education FOMMS “Founder’s” Medal & lecture, followed by banquet Four days - ending on Thursday night after banquet

5. FOMMS 2009 sessions New perspectives in molecular simulation From DNA to proteins Linking process scale simulation and molecular modeling Rare events: acceleration algorithms and transition path sampling Open source modeling & simulation software Soft materials and complex fluids Novel materials and industrial applications of simulation-based engineering & science Petascale computing and emerging architectures for modeling and simulation sglotzer@umich.edu

6. Monday schedule Sunday evening: New perspectives – Berend Smit (UCB) – Daan Frenkel (Cambridge U) Monday morning: From proteins to systems biology – David Baker (UW) – Charlie Brooks (UM) Monday afternoon Poster Session I Monday Evening: Linking process scale simulation and molecular simulation – Linda Broadbelt (NWU) – Dion Vlachos (UDel)

7. Tuesday schedule Tuesday morning: Rare events - Acceleration algorithms and transition path sampling – Giovanni Ciccotti (Rome) – Phil Geissler (UC Berkeley) – Baron Peters (UCSB) Tuesday afternoon – organized outings Tuesday evening: Workshop on open source code development

8. Wednesday schedule Wednesday morning: Soft materials and complex fluids – Ilya Siepmann (UMinn) – Clare McCabe (Vanderbilt) – Lev Gelb (UWStL) Wednesday afternoon Poster Session II & Workshop on Simulation Modules for Education Wednesday evening: Simulation-based Engineering & Science – Novel Materials and Industrial Applications – Caroline Mellot (UK) – S. Nakamura (Mitsubishi, Japan) – Herve’ Toulhoat (IFP, France)

9. Thursday schedule Thursday morning: Future & emerging computer architectures: Towards petascale simulation – David Shaw (D.E. Shaw Research/Columbia) – Klaus Schulten (UIUC) – George Karniadakis (Brown) Thursday afternoon tutorial on GPU programming Thursday evening Medal lecture and banquet

10. Finances Proposal to NSF for $40K pending award. $6K from Kofke grant for simulations in education workshop Funds being solicited from Air Liquide, Michelin, Materials Design, and L’Oreal. To be requested: $15K total Funds to be solicited from GLCPC Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering in January 2009 for sponsoring multicore workshop and session. To be requested: $5K Additional exhibitor income sought: $6K Expected funds: $72K. – Sirola’s estimates: Pessimistic case (with 120*): $28K raised. Residual: -$7,050 Best guess (with 130*): $38K raised. Residual: $14,910 Optimistic (with 150*): $51K raised. Residual: $39,840 *Note: anticipated lower participation by industry due to current financial crisis not reflected in these attendance numbers, which will reduce overall registration income. Ok with expected fundraising.

11. Timetable and important deadlines All speakers confirmed Abstract submission deadline 02/16/09 Notification of poster acceptance 03/27/09 Early-bird registration 06/05/09 Invited talk and poster manuscripts due 06/05/09 Cutoff date for hotel reservations 06/12/09 Conference 07/12/09 – 07/16/09 Also: FOMMS medalist finalists chosen by co-chairs and advisors this week.