1. FOMMS-2009 July 2009 www.fomms.org Sharon Glotzer (U Michigan), Chair Alain Fuchs (ENSPC), Susumu Okazaki (IMS), & Jonathan Moore (Dow), Co-Chairs Sponsored by CAChE, CoMSEF/1A

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

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 *Catherine T. Hunt, Rohm and Haas 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 *unconfirmed PC mtg with advisors, co-chairs Thurs 11-12 at Bambara in Hotel Monaco

4. FOMMS 2009 – “Foundations for Innovation” Some changes… 50% of talks on foundations of new methods in molecular simulation (tutorial-like), 50% of talks on using the methods in applications Evening workshop on special topic – open source code development and interoperability Founder’s Medal & lecture, followed by banquet Four days - ending on Thursday night after banquet

5. Possible FOMMS 2009 sessions Protein design, protein-protein, & protein-surface interactions Linking process scale simulation and molecular modeling Modeling & simulation for alternative energy solutions Hybrid MD/mean field approaches for polymer dynamics & soft matter Rare events: acceleration algorithms and transition path sampling Free energy calculation for complex materials New topics in nucleation and crystallization Open source modeling & simulation software projects (lead in to workshop) Computational nanoscience New directions in force-field development High-fidelity reaction simulations: QM and reactive MD Educating & training the next generation of simulators Future directions: Petascale computing and emerging architectures for modeling and simulation sglotzer@umich.edu

6. Dates and site selection Tentative dates: July 5-9, July 12-16 or July 19-22, 2009 Tentative sites: - Semiahmoo Resort, Blaine, Washington (~2 hours from Seattle) (site of FOMMS 2006) - Suncadia Resort, Cle Elum, Washington (~1.5 hrs from Seattle) (opens Spring 2008) Coordinate site with FOCAPD?