Workshop on Predicting the Thermophysical Properties of Fluids by Molecular Simulation

Monday, June 18

Plenary Session I: Industry Requirements for Molecular Simulations
D. Frurip (Dow) and J. Golab (BP), chairs
9:15 Talk No. I1: Christina Thomas (3M Corporate Technical Center) Property Prediction Via Molecular Simulations: An Industrial Perspective
9:45 Talk No. I2: Fiona Case (Colgate-Palmolive Company) Industrial Application of Atomistic Simulation
10:15 Talk No. I3: Michael Greenfield (Ford Research Laboratory) Chemical and Materials Simulation at Ford
10:45 Talk No. I4: Tyler Thompson (The Dow Chemical Company) Computational Methods for Physical Properties
Plenary Session II: Force Fields in Molecular Simulation
B. Garrett (PNNL) and R. Johnson (NIST), chairs
2:15 Talk No. II.1: William Goddard, III (Caltech)
2:45 Talk No. II.2: Richard Friesner (Columbia) Development of a Polarizable Force Field from Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry
3:15 Talk No. II.3: Ilja Siepmann (Minnesota) Challenges in the Development of Transferable Force Fields for Phase Equilibrium Calculations
3:45 Talk No. II.4: Stanley Sandler (Delaware) Force Fields: Should They Be Simple?

Tuesday, June 19

Plenary Session III: Methods in Molecular Simulation
I. Siepmann (Minnesota) and S. Murad (Illinois-Chicago), chairs
8:30 Talk No. III.1: Sohail Murad (Illinois-Chicago) Steady State Transport Processes in Inhomogeneous Systems & Using MD as a Screening Tool
9:00 Talk No. III.2: David Kofke (SUNY Buffalo) Appropriate and Effective Measurement of Free Energies
9:30 Talk No. III.3: Athanassios Panagiotopoulos (Princeton) Force Field Development Methods for Phase Equilibrium Properties
10:00 Talk No. III.4: Edward Maginn (Notre Dame) Molecular Dynamics Methods for Quantitative Thermophysical Property Calculation
Plenary Session IV: Programmatic Issues in Molecular Simulation
A. Chaka (NIST) and D. Friend (NIST), chairs
1:30 NIST program initiatives Anne Chaka