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Inhomogeneous Electrolytes, at the ACS Northwest/Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, June 2008, Park City, UT
The inhomogenous electrolytes symposium, which was supported by the ACS Computers in Chemistry and Physical Chemistry Division and the Petroleum Research Fund, was held in Park City, June 15-18, 2008 and was part of the NORM/RMRM Regional ACS Meeting. The symposium consisted of 3 half day sessions and two nohost dinners, with 22 talks. The symposium attentance was about 25. The meeting attendance was larger. The speakers and co-authors came from Argentina, Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, and the United States. In addition, there were two last minute cancellations because of health problems. The symposium began on June 15 with a nohost dinner after which Tony Haymet, Vice Chancellor of UCSD, spoke of the history of inhomogeneous fluids. On June 16 Haymet spoke about the potential at ice/water interfaces, Scalise and Nezbeda spoke about models of inhomogeneous polar liquids, Patey a nd Luzar spoke about water in nanopores, Bardhan spoke about numerical methods for electrostatic interactions and Outhwaite spoke about Lamperski's simulations inhomogeneous of molten salts. On June 17, DiCaprio spoke about his work with Holovko and Badiali on exact relations for inhomogeneous electrolytes and Bhuiyan spoke about his simulations of such systems in order to test the usefulness of these exact relations. Gusarov spoke about the application of RISM to solvation in nanopores. Bratko spoke about ion specific effects at interfaces. Boda and Gillespie spoke about the selectivity ion channels and transport within such channels. In the final session on June 18, spoke about simulations of the gramicidin channel Pettitt spoke about his DNA simulations, Gilson spoke about binding in physiological substrates, Wheeler spoke about his simulations of proton transfer and Roth spoke about his work on density functional theory for charged inhomogeneous fluids. The symposium concluded with talks by Wu and Trokhymchuk, Wasan, Nikolov, and Spohr on inhomogeneous polyelectrolytes. It was an extraordinarily successful symposium with many discussions and plans for future collaborative work. The PRF support was an essential part of the success of this symposium.
