The rapid advances in computer hardware and software over the last decade allow meaningful chemistry calculations to be performed on today's standard desktop computers. Chemists now have an additional tool available that is complementary to traditional experimental and theoretical techniques of investigation. Non-experts now have access to techniques that were once only available to specialists using supercomputers. Computational chemistry is also a powerful educational tool that can provide increased insight and understanding of many complex topics in the standard undergraduate curriculum. This workshop will focus on the methods, applications, and educational uses of molecular modeling and related computational techniques suitable for the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Discussions of several computational chemistry topics will be followed by hands-on exercises. Emphasis will be placed on how computational techniques can be incorporated into the existing curriculum.
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Back to The 56th Southeast Regional Meeting 2004 (November 10-13, 2004)